A 39-year-old Kenyan priest was arrested on Tuesday afternoon, July 11, by Jamaican police officers who accused him of four criminal counts. The priest, a parishioner at the Roman Catholic Church in Portmore, St Catherine, faced defilement charges in the report first published by Jamaica Gleaner. A signpost of the Roman Catholic Church in Portmore, St Catherine. The Catholic Church in Jamaica acknowledged receiving a report of the arrest and was cooperating with the police to unravel the case. In response to the report, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kingston confirmed that the priest was promptly removed from all active pastoral ministries.

Source: Daily Nation July 12, 2023 12:19 UTC