ITALIAN SEX ABUSE PRIEST HANGS HIMSELF NI SACRISTY

ROME- NEWS;

An Italian priest who admitted to sexually
abusing a young teenage girl hanged himself
in the sacristy - the clerics changing room
in his church --the diocese of Santa Croce
in     northern Italy report said.

The priest 48 who belonged to the Sloveian
community in Trieste had been accused of
committing "grave acts" years earlier with
a then 13-year  old girl

He  confessed to his bishop Giampaolo
Crepaldi that the reports were true and asked
for two days to prepare a latter asking for
giveness of God,the Church and the victim.

But  when Crepaldi arrived Tuesday
afternoon to officially strip him of his
priestly duties and inform him an enquiry
would be launched into his actions he
found the priest hanging in the sacristy.