Vatican ‘rent-boy’ prostitution ring exposed: ‘underage boys’ exploited

The Vatican braces for yet another sex scandal after a prostitution ring consisting of poor, immigrant boys, many underage, operating inside the Holy Roman Church and servicing clergy and high ranking church officials, is exposed.

According to a June 26 story appearing in The Times, a convicted pedophile priest has given Italian investigators concrete information about a prostitution ring operating inside the Holy Roman Church. Multiple reports now indicate a member of Italy’s military police served as a pimp for the ring, picking up immigrant boys, many underage, at a bar called “Twink” for encounters with priests around Rome.
Convicted pedophile priest Don Patrizio Poggi, who served a five-year sentence for abusing five 14 and 15-year-old boys at his parish on the outskirts of the Italian capital, has reportedly handed numerous names of clergy and other church officials involved in the prostitution ring to Italian police.
Poggi has reportedly handed the names of 20 alleged child abusers in the Roman clergy – including four serving priests and a Monsignor - to the authorities.
So far, four people have formally been placed under investigation by Rome magistrates. Suspects are said to include a monsignor who is currently the secretary of an important bishop, as well as a former Carabinieri police officer suspected of recruiting underage boys for the alleged prostitution ring.
CathNewsUSA reports the allegations are rejected by the Vatican: Cardinal Agostino Vallini, head of the Catholic Vicariate of Rome, claims Poggi’s allegations are made from a desire for vengeance.