WINDSOR (ONTARIO, CANADA)
CBC News
Vatican diplomat wanted for child porn offences should be sent back to Canada: Lawyer
‘If Pope Francis has been nothing but a PR exercise this will prove it’
September 29, 2017
By Dan Taekema
A London, Ont. lawyer says it’s time for the Vatican to “put its money where its mouth is” and send Monsignor Carlo Capella back to Canada where he faces child pornography charges.
“If Pope Francis has been nothing but a PR exercise this will prove it,” said Robert Talach with Beckett Personal Injury Lawyers.
Reports in American media state Capella, a high-ranking Catholic priest, was recalled to the Vatican after rumours U.S. authorities were planning to charge him with possession of child pornography began to swirl earlier this month.
On Thursday, Windsor police issued a Canada-wide warrant alleging a 50-year-old man named Carlo Capella committed child pornography offences at an area church during the Christmas holidays.
He is wanted for accessing, possessing and distributing child pornography.
The Diocese of London has confirmed it assisted in an “investigation around suspicions involving Msgr. Capella’s possible violations of child pornography laws by using a computer address at a local Church,” according to spokesperson Nelson Couto.
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