KHASI (INDIA)
India Today
October 24, 2018
Manogya Loiwal
A woman from the Khasi community has accused two Christian priests of sexually abusing her decades ago, when she was a minor. The woman, who is 44, made the allegations in a social media post, and a Catholic group has said it will begin an internal probe.
The woman accused one of the clergymen of showing her his penis — and asking her to touch it — when she was five years old. When she told a family member, she said, she was slapped and told “never to make up such stories”.
The abuse continued, she said, but she gathered the courage to refuse to meet with or talk to the priest when she reached childbearing age, partly because she “was terrified of getting pregnant”. The man is now in West Bengal, she said.
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