POLAND
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The attorney general of the Dominican Republic has met with his Polish counterpart in Warsaw and is expecting a severe sentence for a Polish priest suspected of abusing children.
Father Wojciech G. (full name withheld under Polish privacy laws) is due to be tried at a district court in Wolomin, near Warsaw.
The priest stands accused of 10 offences, 8 of which relate to the sexual abuse of boys below the age of 15. Two acts were allegedly committed in 2000-2001 in Poland, the others at various times over the years 2009-2013, in the Dominican Republic.
”We expect a just, high sentence which will satisfy public opinion in the Dominican Republic,” Attorney General Francisco Dominquez Brito said after meeting his Polish counterpart Andrzej Seremet.
The Dominican Republic is considering whether to send observers to attend the trial.
Seremet noted that the trial will be held behind closed, but that he reserved the right to allow for an observer to attend the proceedings.
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