The Netherlands’ Rotterdam diocese has dismissed a priest over allegations of child abuse and embezzlement in Sri Lanka and Dutch police are investigating, Church officials and the police say. “In July 2009, the diocese was informed of the priest’s suspected sexual abuse and embezzlement in Sri Lanka,” the Rotterdam diocese said in a statement, The Inquirer reports..
The priest whose name was not given worked in a Sri Lanka charity.
The diocese contacted the public prosecutor’s office after an internal investigation, Pieter Kohnen, spokesman for the Dutch Catholic Church, told AFP.
Dutch religious leaders on March 9 ordered a “broad, external and independent” investigation of alleged sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, and apologized to victims.
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