Boy victims of “the Italian” who sought them out for sexual favors near Montesinos Statue off the Malecon say they only found out who their client was when the news story broke locally, and his real identity was revealed. By then, Wesolowski had abruptly left the country, protected by the Roman Catholic Church. Investigative journalists were on his trail.
He was Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, the Vatican’s ambassador to the Dominican Republic.
The scandal that followed is that of the highest Vatican official ever to be incriminated for pedophilia. Shoeshine boys who were his victims admitted to being seduced by the money, as reported in The New York Times. Wesolowski, who was ordained by Pope John Paul II, has since been defrocked, the harshest penalty in the Roman Catholic Church law.
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