He agreed to resign. The Church asked a priest of Breteuil, in the Oise, to renounce his curial office, after a woman complained to the bishop, we learned on Tuesday from the diocese . A criminal investigation for rape is under way.
"As of June 30, this priest will no longer have a parish charge" pending the end of the investigation opened by the Beauvais prosecution and a possible judgment, explained the diocese, confirming information from the Courrier Picard .
A priest from Kinshasa
He is a priest born in 1966 and came from Kinshasa, the capital of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “An investigation started in May after the complaint of a woman who claims to be the victim of rape by a priest. This investigation is still ongoing, "said the Beauvais prosecution.
This woman "recognizes that there was a romantic relationship that settled between the two and believes that in the context of this relationship, he took advantage of a certain grip he had on her to obtain one or more sexual relations, "he added, adding that the man had not yet been heard in the context of this investigation.
The decision of the bishop, Mgr Jacques Benoit-Gonnin, announced this weekend at the parish, was taken on the basis of a canonical investigation carried out before confinement. The diocese affirms to have learned, Monday, that a penal investigation was in hand by the press and underlines that the Church is "ready to collaborate with justice".
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