This picture taken on June 9, 2021 shows defrocked US priest Richard Daschbach preparing to attend his trial via videolink in Dili, facing charges of sexual abuse, child pornography and domestic violence. - AFP
DILI, East Timor (AFP): A defrocked American priest accused of molesting girls for years at an East Timor shelter has gone on trial in a case that split the overwhelmingly Catholic country.
Richard Daschbach, 84, faces sexual abuse, child pornography and domestic violence charges and could be jailed for up to 20 years if convicted of crimes linked to an orphanage he founded in the early 1990s.
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