Polish activists pull down statue of disgraced priest
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Activists in Poland have pulled down a statue of a disgraced late priest after mounting allegations that he sexually abused minors.
They acted under cover of night early Thursday to make a protest about the failure of the Polish church to deal with the problem of abuse.
Video footage shows three men attaching a rope around the statue of Mgr. Henryk Jankowski in Gdansk and then pulling it down. Jankowski was a prominent priest of the Solidarity pro-democracy movement in the 1980s who died in 2010.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The private broadcaster TVN24 reported the three were arrested.
Their action comes as church leaders gather at the Vatican to grapple with the sex abuse crisis in the church.