Reverend Father Caught Sleeping With Church Member's Wife

A 45-year-old Italian Catholic Priest, Rev. Father Vito Isacchi, has been forced to resign after he was caught sleeping with a church member’s wife.


Father Isacchi tendered his resignation in the archdiocese of L’Aquila on Tuesday after Corte d’Appello di L’Aquila’s ruling on the matter was made public.

According to the Telegraph UK, the court gave the ruling after a five-year trial of the priest.

The court also ordered his alleged lover to pay her estranged husband 15,000 euros (£13,400/N6million) for the depression he suffered over their affair.

The court,however, excused Isacchi, who is also known as ‘Don Vito’ from paying any compensation as the court found him, “irrelevant” to any violation of the marriage due to the fact that he was not married.

Father Isacchi, however, expressed regret over the incident, saying he had repented for his actions but resigned in a letter to the local archbishop, Monsignor Giuseppe Petrocchi, amid an outcry over the case.