MUMBAI (INDIA)
Times Now News
July 10, 2019
The Kerala State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (CPCR) on Tuesday has filed a case against the Kerala Catholic priest who was recently arrested by the police for sexually abusing minor boys.
The director of the boys’ home in Kochi, Father George TJ alias Jerry, was arrested by the Kerala police on Sunday. The arrest was made following a complaint by the parents of the victims, who alleged that their boys were being abused for over six months now.
According to a report, the Kerala CPCR said that the boy’s home has been working without authorisation, it was closed down by the commission in March 2018. The commission chairperson, P Suresh said that the commission observed that accommodating children secretly without authorisation was a major offence, the higher authorities of the institution will also have to face the legal action as per the Juvenile Justice Act.
In the wake of such incidents of sexual harassment, the commission has directed the police officials and the Social Justice Department to raid and inspect institutions across the state which had been closed down in 2018 for not being registered under the Juvenile Justice Act.
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