Jealousy Could Be a Reason for Defaming the Priest Suspected in Pedophilia - Paper

Interfax
November 8, 2013

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Moscow, November 8, Interfax - Svetlana Nekrasova, who visited summer camp in Konevets with her daughter in Priest Gleb Grozovsky's shift, believes a possible reason for accusing the priest in seduction of two schoolgirls could be the priest's conflict with the girl's father.

"The man should have taken Father Gleb to the airport in his car as the priest had to go on a trip before the shift was over. However, at the last moment the man refused and rowed with the priest. He called me personally and said he had enough money "to close" Father Gleb for a long time," Nekrasova was quoted as saying by the Moskovsky Komsomolets daily.

According to her, such a reaction of the parent was a result of the rumors which several girls, including Nekrasova's daughter, spread in the camp. Finally, father of one of the priest's wards believed that the priest tried to seduce them and started threatening him. Eyewitnesses believe that the girls could slander Father Gleb out of childish jealousy as, according to the priest's sister, "he has often become an object of girls' love."

The edition says Nekrasova's daughter (who still adores Father Gleb) confessed that she said a lot of bad things against the priest. And even then in summer she told about her fraud to the girl whose father quarreled with the priest.

"My daughter has already repented and regrets that she said such words. We asked Father Gleb's forgiveness and he forgave her as a Christian and bears no malice," Nekrasova said.