INDIA
The Times of India
Mar 4, 2017
Kannur: A conspiracy was hatched to hush up the rape of a minor girl by Robin Vadakkancheril alias Mathew Vadakkancheril, a 48-year-old priest in Kottiyoor, police has said. The authorities of the hospital where the girl delivered the baby, and also the orphanage in Wayanad which took the baby under its care without informing the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), made serious lapses, they said.
Though cases have been registered under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act against eight people including five nuns — one of them a gynecologist in the hospital where the girl delivered — they are all absconding, said Iritty DSP Prajesh Thottathil.
Police said cases have been registered against a pediatrician, Dr Hyderali, and the administrator of the hospital, Ancy Mathew, a nun. The others are Thankamma, a female employee of St Sebastian Church, Neendunoki, near Kottiyoor and nuns Liz Maria, Anita and Ophelia, who handles the orphanage in Mananthawady.
“We have concrete evidence on efforts made to hush up the case. There were serious lapses on the part of Christu Raj Hospital in Koothuparamba, where the girl delivered. The newborn was taken away from the mother and shifted to the Holy Infant Foundling Home, part of the HIM orphanage at Vythiri in Wayanad in violation of rules,” said the DSP.
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