Woman wore pillow under dress while trying to blackmail priest

Monika W. tried to blackmailed a priest from Bliżyn by claiming she was pregnant by him. Private detective and Sejm deputy Krzysztof Rutkowski, however unmasked the woman by revealling that she was wearing a pillow under her dress. Priest Przemysław met 35-year-old Monika who claimed to be a doctor last year at a seminar in Silesia. One day she demanded money threatening that if she did not receive it she would tell everybody she was pregnant. When the priest refused, W. went to his superiors to complain. The church authorities moved the priest to another parish but the torment continued. After the anti-clerical newspaper "Facts and Myths" reported the incident writing that a priest had abandoned a pregnant girl, he turned to Rutkowski for help. "We suspect the woman has in the past blackmailed priests from dioceses in Łódź and Silesia" added Rutkowski. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 8) A.Z