THALASSERY (INDIA)
Times of India
February 17, 2019
By P. Sudhakaran
Father Robin Vadakkancheril, former vicar of St Sebastian Church at Neendunoki in Kerala, was sentenced to 20 years’ rigorous imprisonment after a Pocso (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) court found him guilty of raping and impregnating a minor girl.
In the course of the trial, the rape survivor and all main prosecution witnesses, including her parents, turned hostile but a determined prosecution secured a conviction by managing to produce the girl’s original birth certificate that proved she was a minor when she was
sexually abused by the priest.
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