Kerala Rape Case: Priest, Nuns Surrender before Police

Times of India
March 17, 2017

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/three-accused-in-minor-girl-sexual-abuse-case-surrender-/articleshow/57682862.cms

KANNUR: Three accused, including two nuns, in the Kottiyoor rape case in which a priest has been named as an accused, surrendered before the police on Friday.

According to police, Wayanad Child Welfare Committee (CWC) former chairman Fr Thomas Joseph Therakam, former member Sr Betty Jose and Sr Ophelia, the superintendent of Holy Infant Mary's Girls Home at Vythiri in Wayanad, which houses a foundling home, surrendered before Peravoor police inspector separately between 6.30 and 7 am.

The charge against them is that they helped to conceal the entire case in which a minor girl who was allegedly raped by priest, Robin Vadakkancheril alias Mathew Vadakkancheril, gave birth to a baby boy in Christu Raj Hospital in Koothuparamba on February 7.

The charge is that with the help of the hospital authorities, the newborn was shifted to Holy Infant Mary's Foundling Home in Vythiri the same day but the CWC did not record it till February 20 and then signed the placement order without any verification. They surrendered as per the order of the Kerala High Court while considering their anticipatory bail plea.