‘I committed grave acts': Paedophile priest confesses, hangs himself in church vestry
Maks Suard, an Italian priest who recently admitted to “grave acts” on a teenage girl has hanged himself in the vestry of his church.
Reports from the AFP indicate that the 48-year-old priest killed himself days after admitting to committing “grave acts” on a 13-year-old girl.
He confessed his actions to the Trieste’s bishop, His Grace Giampaolo Crepaldi, requesting for for two days to prepare a letter begging forgiveness to God, the Church and the victim.
But, when the bishop arrived on Tuesday afternoon to officially notify the priest of his firing from the parish, he found him hanged in the church’s vestry.
The Trieste diocese asked in a statement that people pray for the soul of the priest. The diocese also expressed regrets that the case could not follow its “canon and judicial path” which could have brought the
priest “a human and Christian recovery desirable in the respect of the laws”.
