A priest has been accused of accidentally drowning a six-week-old boy as he baptised him in Moldova.
Witnesses claimed the baby died after Father Valentin failed to cover his mouth and nose when he immersed him in water three times.
Film shot by relatives shows the youngster moving after being taken out of the font, but then suffering difficulty breathing as he is dressed.

Twenty minutes later, he started bleeding from his nose and mouth and died.

The baby died on the way to hospital and a post mortem found he had drowned, the baby's father Dumitru Gaidau told Romania's Publica TV.
He added: 'We all saw it, the priest didn't put his hand over the baby's mouth to stop water going in as he should have done and as they do at every other baptism.

'We couldn't believe it that he just put his hand over his belly and over the head and submerged him three times in the water.'
Father Valentin denies being to blame for baby's death at the ceremony in the Rascani district in north-western Moldova.
The baby's godmother Aliona Vacarciuc, 32, told the Sun: 'The baby was crying as he went into the water.

'We couldn't believe it but we thought the priest must know what he's doing, but he didn't. When

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