Sexual abuse in church: Court seeks govt’s stand

Kaumudi
April 17, 2015

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 KOCHI: Kerala High Court has sought the stand of the government on the anticipatory bail submitted by Fr Edwin Figarez in connection with a case in which a 16-year-old girl was "sexually abused" by the church priest.
 
Justice C T Ravikumar was considering the petition filed by Advocate Ranjith Shankar and Advocate Shiju Abraham.
The complaint regarding the incident was lodged on April 1 by the mother of the ninth standard student. The complaint was filed against Lourde Matha Latin Catholics  priest under Kottapuram Catholics church. After the complaint was lodged, the priest had gone into hiding and he later moved a plea for anticipatory bail even as the probe was going on against him.
 
In the bail plea, the priest has alleged that the parents of the girl had personal grudge against him and even  a few church insiders conspired to trap him in some case.