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	Priest Requests and Gets Jail for Child Sex Abuse Gulf Times [Poland] May 23, 2006 http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2 &item_no=87832&version=1&template_id=39&parent_id=21 WARSAW: A Polish court Monday sentenced a Catholic priest to five years in jail for repeated sexual abuse of a 10-year-old girl in his presbytery. The 38-year-old priest, named only as Miroslaw W, abused the girl in 2003 and 2004, said the court in the eastern city of Lublin, cited by the PAP news agency. The priest had pleaded guilty. He was arrested in February following a complaint from the girl's parents, and suspended from his duties. fJudge Slawomir Kaczor said the clergyman, from a village in eastern Poland, had himself requested the five-year jail term, PAP reported. – AFP
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