INDIA
Hindustan Times
A 59-year-old priest, who has been accused of raping a minor in Minnesota in 2004 and then
A Delhi court has given its recommendation to the Centre to extradite Ooty-based reverend Joseph Jeyapaul so that he can stand trial on charge of “first degree criminal sexual conduct.”
Trial court judge Ajay Garg, who was requested by the ministry of external affairs to look whether Jeyapaul could be extradited to the USA, gave his nod to the extradition process clearing the way for the reverend to stand trial in Minnesota, USA.
According to US authorities, in 2004, Jeyapaul sexually abused a 14-year-old girl where he was a member of his parish The Blessed Sacramont Church in Minnesota. The priest had allegedly met the girl at a youth conference in 2004, and abused her for nearly a year till he left for India on August 28, 2005.
A year later in December 2006, the teenage victim filed a criminal complaint against him accusing him of sexual assault.
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