(ANSA) - Vatican City, August 28 - The former papal nuncio
to the Dominican Republic and former archbishop Jozef Wesolowski
died Thursday night in the Vatican, ANSA learned Friday.
The Vatican later confirmed the death, saying it was most
probably from natural causes and that results of an autopsy will
be made known as soon as possible.
A Vatican canon law tribunal defrocked the Polish
ex-prelate, who was 66 at the time, in June 2014 after finding
him guilty of child abuse.
The Vatican arrested Wesolowski last September, after Pope
Francis gave the green light, and put him on trial for paying
for sex with minors while he was a Vatican ambassador in Santo
Domingo as well as possession of child pornography.
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Jozef Wesolowski was on trial in Vatican for child sex abuse