Pedophile priest commits suicide

A priest who recently admitted to sexually abusing a minor female has killed himself at a church in Italy.

Maks Suad, 48, was found to have hanged himself at the vestry of his church in the port town of Trieste two days ago just minutes before being stripped from his priestly duties.

“He asked for two days to draw up his resignation letter and write a note to beg forgiveness from God, the Church and the young girl for the evil he did,” the Archbishop of Trieste Giampaolo Crepaldi said on Wednesday.

The bishop said he found Suad hanging when he arrived Tuesday afternoon to officially suspend him from his pastoral office and inform him an enquiry would be launched into his actions.

Suad was in charge of the Slovenian community in the church and had been in the area since 1995. The pedophile priest was under police investigation for years for committing “grave acts” on a 13-year-old girl and a Catholic criminal case was about to be launched against him.

Over the past few years, the Roman Catholic Church has been facing numerous scandals of child abuse by priests, mainly in the United States and Europe.

More than 4,000 priests in the US have reportedly faced sexual abuse allegations since the 1950s in cases involving more than 10,000 children.

Pope Francis has warned that there will be “no privileges” for bishops when it comes to sex offenders. The pontiff also promised more action in response to accusations of cover-ups and excessive leniency by the Vatican.

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