INDIA
Crux
Nirmala Carvalho
CRUX CONTRIBUTOR
May 4, 2018
MUMBAI, India – A bishop in India has asked his diocese to fast and pray for a priest jailed after being accused of sending indecent messages to a school student.
Father Georgish Britto, of St. Anselm School in Alwar, was arrested on April 20 for allegedly sending obscene messages over WhatsApp to a 15-year-old female student who attends the school.
Afterwards, the student also accused the priest of touching her “inappropriately” in the school.
He was charged under India’s 2012 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POSCO) Act.
Bishop Oswald Joseph Lewis of Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan, told Crux he visited Britto in jail, and the priest denied the allegations, and told the bishop he was “trapped.”
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