VATICAN CITY
International Business Times
By Gopi Chandra Kharel September 29, 2014
The Vatican is rocked by a massive paedophilia scandal as the highest-ranking Vatican official ever to be investigated for sex abuse is now accused of storing over a lakh child porn videos and images on his computer.
Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, the 66-year-old priest who served as a papal envoy in the Dominican Republic, had been arrested earlier this week at the Vatican and will be charged with sexually abusing minors and child porn possession. He may spend up to 7 years in the Vatican prison.
Investigators are reportedly analysing a computer used by Wesolowski in his Santo Domingo home, where he served as the Holy See envoy from 2008 to 2012.
The probe revealed that the Polish native had more than 1,00,000 files showing under-aged children in sexually explicit situations, II Corriere della Sera newspaper reported. Close to 160 videos showed teenage boys being forced to perform sexual acts on themselves and adults, according to the newspaper.
In what appears to be Wesolwski’s attempt to destroy some of the evidences, investigators found that at least 45,000 photos were deleted. More than 86,000 pornographic photos were also meticulously stored in several category-based folders.
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