(ANSA) - Rome, October 28 - Police on Tuesday arrested a
former priest on suspicion of child prostitution.
Patrizio Poggi allegedly lured two underage boys, one of
whom he approached outside a school in the Lazio city of Viterbo
in 2014.
He is also accused of raping one of the two victims, a
Romanian minor, and filming the incident.
Poggi had reported the boy for attempted extortion, but
prosecutors did not find the allegation credible and slapped
Poggi with slander charges instead.
The defrocked priest is currently on trial on separate
charges of slander after he accused high-ranking prelates of
being in a pedophile ring in 2013.
Ex-priest arrested for child prostitution
Patrizio Poggi suspected of sex with minors