Italian police arrested former U.S. Salvatorian Father Joseph J. Henn
16 years after Italy’s highest court confirmed his extradition to the
United States to face allegations of child sexual abuse in Arizona.
Michele Gentiloni, Henn’s attorney, said his client was taken into
custody May 28 after trying to use his expired U.S. passport as
identification to pick up some medicine he needed. A spokesman for the
Carabinieri, the Italian police force that apprehended Henn, disputed
that version of events, claiming instead that the priest had requested
assistance at a city-run immigrant assistance center using a false name.
Henn, who was expelled from his order and removed from the priesthood
in 2006, currently is in Rome’s Regina Coeli prison awaiting
questioning, which must happen by June 3, his attorney told Catholic News Service May 31.
Former priest wanted on abuse charges in Arizona arrested in Italy
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