The Jakarta Post, Associated Press, Sao Paulo | Sat, 05/22/2010 10:41 PM
A Polish priest who is accused of sexually abusing a former altar boy in Rio de Janeiro and turning his parish home into an "erotic dungeon" has turned himself over to police and is now jailed, Brazilian news media reported Saturday.
State prosecutors have accused Marcin Michael Strachanowski of handcuffing the 16-year-old former altar boy to a bed three years ago in the parish house where the priest lived and threatening to kill the youth if he spoke of the abuse.
Strachanowski surrendered at a police station Friday night, the news media reported, displaying images of him being taken away in the back of a police car.
The 44-year-old priest was suspended from duties after the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro learned that a judge had issued an order Thursday for his arrest.
The archdiocese issued a statement Friday announcing the suspension and expressing regret over the alleged abuse.
Judge Alexandre Abrahao Dias said that investigators found "erotic material sent to the victim via Internet to seduce him" and that the priest also took other youths to the parish house, "which he converted into a kind of erotic dungeon where he submitted them, often with the use of handcuffs, to orgies."
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