A former priest involved in a sex
scandal near Padua has been defrocked, Padua's archbishop
announced on Thursday.
The ex-priest, Father Andrea Contin, was defrocked on March 3
and the local Church was informed today, Archbishop Claudio
Cipolla said.
Father Contin, former parish priest at Busiago di Campo San
Martino, is accused of aggravated private violence in the
scandal, in which he is alleged to have had a string of lovers.
Last week Father Contin asked to plea bargain a year's jail
time in a suit brought against him in 2016 by a woman who
reported him, sparking the scandal.
photo: Archbishop Cipolla
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