SC declines ex-Catholic priest’s plea for meantime bail to marry minor he raped
The Ideally suited Courtroom Monday declined to entertain a plea by way of ex-Catholic priest Robin Vadakkumcherry for an meantime bail to marry the minor woman he had raped and impregnated. The apex court docket, on the other hand, requested him to method the Kerala Top Courtroom.
The rape survivor from Kerala had on Saturday moved the Ideally suited Courtroom in search of permission to marry Robin, who was once sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment after a court docket in February 2019
SC declines to entertain plea by way of ex-Catholic priest Robin Vadakkumcherry for meantime bail to marry the lady he raped as minor, asks him to method Kerala HC. He was once sentenced to 20 yrs in prison underneath POCSO in 2019. @IndianExpress
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Following his sentencing, the Church initiated steps to disregard him from the priesthood and in any case defrocked him in 2020.
The woman belonged to a Catholic circle of relatives in a parish the place Vadakkumchery labored as a clergyman. In Would possibly 2016, the lady, who had on the time simply written her Magnificence 10 tests, went to Vadakkumchery’s parsonage for some data-entry paintings of the parish. Within the afternoon, when the opposite women had been away, the priest took the lady to his bed room and raped her. He let her pass house after commanding her to not disclose the incident to any person. The woman stated not anything to her circle of relatives. She went to college, and attended mass on the native church on a daily basis. She had grow to be pregnant because of the rape, however nobody perceived to have realised this.
