A priest has been jailed after he refused to open the door to an ambulance when a man overdosed on erectile dysfunction pills during a ‘gay orgy’ he had organised.
Father Tomasz Zmarzły from the church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Angels has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for sex and drug crimes.
He was also jailed for failing to provide assistance to a person in danger of loss of life or serious bodily harm, after the victim took copious amounts of potency tablets.
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A male prostitute attending the gathering then called the emergency services, prompting the priest to order him to leave.
When paramedics arrived they found the prostitute waiting outside the apartment but Father Zmarzły is said to have refused to let them in.
The ambulance service then called the police who were eventually allowed inside to find the unconscious man. He was taken to hospital where he later recovered and discharged himself.
A source close to the incident previously told the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza: ‘The event was organised by clergy and was purely sexual. Its participants took potency pills.’
Informing his superior about the incident the following day, Father Zmarzły denied that he had organised a ‘gay orgy’.
The priest was sentenced for sexual offences, the supply of drugs and failing to provide assistance to a person in danger of loss of life or serious bodily harm.
Due to the nature of the case the trial took place behind closed doors. There will be no appeal.
The Diocese of Sosnowiec in southwest Poland had been engulfed in scandal since reports of the sex party in the town of Dabrowa Gornicza emerged last year.
The bishop of the diocese Grzegorz Kaszak stepped down but the Vatican said at the time, without giving a reason for his resignation.
Tomasz Z was discharged from the clergy last year after the media reports.
The diocese’s press office did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.