A priest from northwestern France has been charged with drugging and raping a 15-year-old boy whom he allegedly met on a homosexual dating app called Grindr, according to prosecutors and legal authorities.After the two met in Paris last week via Grindr, the priest from a small parish close to Rennes was accused of aggravatedrape and drugging the minor. RTL radio said that the 50-year-old pastor offered the minor multiple drugs in a hotel room, including the ecstasy-derivative MDMA and a chemical that resembled GHB, a notorious narcotic often used in date rape. The minor fell ill later and alerted his friends.
The case is the latest in a string of sexual assault accusationsthat have severely tarnishedthe image of the church in France.The confessions of a cardinal earlier this week stunned French Catholics yet again after an investigation last year exposed the appalling extent of sexual abuse by priests in recent decades.
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