VATICAN CITY
BBC News
June 9, 2018
A senior Vatican official who served as a diplomat to the US will face charges of possessing images that show child sex abuse, the Holy See said.
Monsignor Carlo Alberto Capella’s trial will begin on 22 June in the Vatican.
He was recalled in September 2017 after US authorities alerted the Vatican that one of its diplomats may have violated child pornography laws.
Monsignor Capella’s career took him to India and Hong Kong before his time in the US, which lasted less than a year.
He was arrested in April.
A state department official told the Washington Post that the US government had asked for Monsignor Capella’s diplomatic immunity be waived so he could be prosecuted in the US, but the Vatican refused.
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