Priest held for molesting girl, clicking her lewd pictures

INDIA
India Today

A Catholic priest has been arrested in Tamil Nadu for allegedly sexually abusing a nine-year-old girl and then clicking her obscene pictures on his phone.

On the run since the last week of April, Raju Kokkan, 44, of the Thrissur Archdiocese was caught by a team of police officials near Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, on Sunday. Nagercoil is 70 km from Thiruvananthapuram, the state capital of Kerala. “He has been arrested and will be presented in court by Monday evening,” Thrissur district police chief P. Prakash told the news agency IANS.

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