Priest denies accusations of child molestation

RUSSIA
Interfax

St. Petersburg, November 6, Interfax – Gleb Grozovsky, the former senior priest of the Church of John the Warrior, St. Petersburg Metropole of the Russian Orthodox Church, who is accused of molesting two children, has denied his guilt

“The case materials are full of emotions and there is not a single piece of evidence of my guilt.

According to the parents, they were threatened and psychologically pressured to accuse me of all these abominable things. The mothers were pressured to make their accusations. Many women gave in to emotions now they realize that they have been deceived and they don’t know what to do,” Grozovsky said on a social networking site on Wednesday.

Grozovsky said only witnesses for the prosecution have now been questioned by the investigators. “They haven’t questioned any camp counselors or the parents of the children who were in the camp, whereas there were educators in the camps who came there with their children and saw everything with their own eyes, plus I had my family and my four children with me,” Grozovsky said.

The priest said he is now on a visit to a center for alcohol and drug-dependent people in Israel at the blessing of the bishop.

Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.