former pastor of the Opole Jarnołtówka court ruled for the second time found guilty of sexual harassment 15-year-old pupil's home. Sentenced him to one year in prison, suspended for three years.
case aroused a lot of excitement, because the priest was the parish. 55-year-old cleric was accused of sexual harassment three alumni Orphanage in Chmielowicach who came to his parish for holidays. The indictment shows that the harassment had come in 1999, the boys were 11 to 13 years, and the harassment was based on the strip them naked, kissing on the lips and touched.
In the first trial in 2004, the District Court found Prudnik priest convicted and sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment, suspended for 3 years. The appellate court overturned the sentence because I interviewed only one of the victims. Addresses the other two could not be determined, so the court just read what you testified in the prosecution. The appellate court held that such testimony must be confronted before the court. The retrial was able to hear the two victims. Only one of them has consistently talked about the abuse it by chaplains. The second significantly changed his previous testimony, so the court found that they were unreliable, and acquitted on the charge of a priest.
failed to bring about a third of the victims, because the court, the dignity of the principle that doubt must be resolved in favor of the accused, acquitted the priest, and from this complaint. Defender priest arguing for acquittal and again promised an appeal.
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