FILE PHOTO: The sun sets behind the dome of St. Peter's Basilica ahead of the Christmas Eve mass celebrated by Pope Francis, in Rome, Italy December 24, 2020. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane/File Photo
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A prosecutor on Thursday asked a Vatican court to sentence a man who is now a priest to six years in prison for alleged sexual abuse committed in a youth seminary in the Vatican before he was ordained.
Father Gabriele Martinelli, now 28, is accused of having forced a person known only as L.G. to have sex, mostly while they were both minors between 2007 and 2012.
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