'We are witches' - Clerical abuse scandal divides parishes and politics in Poland


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  • Monday, 07 Jan 2019

Parishioners leave the church after the mass in Kalinowka, Poland November 25, 2018. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

KALINOWKA, Poland (Reuters) - The former Catholic priest of the Polish village of Kalinowka is serving three years in jail for molesting five schoolgirls. But Marta Zezula, a mother whose testimony helped convict him, says the priest's victims are the ones made to feel guilty.

"We are witches ... because we have pointed at the priest," Zezula fumed as she shovelled straw into a chaff cutter in her barn in the tiny settlement in eastern Poland.

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