VATICAN CITY
Herald-Review
VATICAN CITY (AP) — A former papal diplomat accused of sexually abusing teenage boys while stationed in the Dominican Republic has been hospitalized in intensive care, forcing adjournment of his trial Saturday in a Vatican courtroom for allegedly causing grave psychological harm to the victims and possessing an enormous quantity of child pornography.
Medical records attesting that Jozef Wesolowski had been admitted a day earlier because of “sudden illness” to an intensive care unit of a Rome public hospital were presented by the prosecutor to the judge, who read it without saying what ails the former prelate.
The 66-year-old Pole’s lawyer, Antonello Blasi, told journalists he hadn’t been told what ails his client.
“I saw him two or three days ago, and, given his age and his state of mind, he was fine,” said Blasi. The lawyer told the court that Wesolowski, who has been under house arrest in a room above the courtroom, had been “willing and able” to come to court.
Judge Giuseppe Della Torre adjourned the trial indefinitely.
Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.