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Titolo: Priest accused of US abuse still working in India

NEW DELHI — A Catholic priest charged with sexually assaulting a 
14-year-old girl in Minnesota is working in his home diocese in India 
and has no plans to return to the U.S. to face the courts, he and his 
bishop told The Associated Press on Monday.
Church documents obtained by the AP show the Vatican was alerted to the 
accusations against the Rev. Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul more than three 
years ago but did not respond.
The priest has received only a minor punishment and is currently working 
in his bishop's office processing teacher appointments for a dozen 
church schools in the diocese of Ootacamund in southern India.
"We cannot simply throw out the priest, so he is just staying in the 
bishop's house, and he is helping me with the appointment of teachers," 
said the Most Rev. A. Almaraj, the bishop of Ootacamund. "He says he is 
innocent, and these are only allegations. ... I don't know what else to do."
Almaraj emphasized that Jeyapaul was engaged in only "paperwork, nothing 
to do with the children or anything."
The main group of clerical abuse victims in the United States has 
scheduled a news conference for Monday in St. Paul, Minnesota, to draw 
attention to the Jeyapaul case and demand he be suspended and returned 
to face justice in the United States.
The group, Survivors Network for those Abused by Priests, has been 
campaigning recently to draw attention to what it considers the 
Vatican's complicity in cases of abusive priests being moved around 
dioceses to avoid criminal prosecution.
The Vatican has denounced such accusations and has blamed the media for 
what it calls a smear campaign against the pope and his advisers.
The Vatican has insisted Pope Benedict XVI takes such accusations 
seriously and cracked down on abuse in 2001 by ordering dioceses to 
inform the Vatican of all such cases. However, the Vatican hasn't issued 
any guidelines requiring bishops to heed civil authorities, though it 
insists nothing in its directives precludes such cooperation.
Jeyapaul is currently wanted on two counts of criminal sexual conduct 
stemming from accusations he assaulted a young, female parishioner in 
the fall of 2004 at the Blessed Sacrament Church in Greenbush, 
Minnesota, where he was working. Each charge carries a sentence of up to 
30 years.
According to the criminal complaint, the teenage girl accused Jeyapaul 
of threatening to kill her family if she did not come into the rectory, 
where he then forced her to perform oral sex on him and groped her in 
the fall of 2004.
In a telephone call with The Associated Press, Jeyapaul denied the charges.
"It is a false accusation against me," he said. "I do not know that girl 
at all."
He said he had no intention of facing the charges, and Almaraj said the 
church had never discussed asking him to return to the United States to 
appear in court.
"No steps were taken. Nobody talked about that. Nobody asked about 
that," Almaraj said.
Officials at India's Foreign Ministry were not immediately available to 
discuss whether the U.S. asked for Jeyapaul's extradition. The two 
countries do have an agreement.
At the time the accusations against Jeyapaul first surfaced in 2005, the 
priest had returned home to visit his ailing mother and officials in 
Minnesota's Crookston diocese told him he should stay in India, Jeyapaul 
said.
"My mother told me to remain here, and the (Crookston) bishop also told 
me not to come back, because these allegations have come against you," 
he said.
On Dec. 21, 2006, Monsignor Victor Balke, the-then bishop of the 
Crookston diocese, wrote about the accusations against Jeyapaul to both 
Cardinal William Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of 
the Faith, and the Most Rev. Pietro Sambi, Apostolic Nuncio, the 
Vatican's ambassador, to the United States. The Congregation for the 
Doctrine of the Faith is the Vatican office that handles all abuse cases.
"I hope that for the good of the Church you are able to reach a speedy 
resolution to this case," he wrote to Levada, according to a letter 
obtained by AP.
A week later, Rev. Sambi wrote to Bishop Balke: "I assure you that this 
material has already been forwarded to the Holy See."
It's not clear what actions, if any, the Vatican took. Alamaraj said the 
Vatican was informed of his disciplinary actions against Jeyapaul, but 
had no input.
Almaraj said he sent Jeyapaul to a monastery for a year of prayer and 
asked the local parishes where the priest had worked previously if there 
were any prior cases of possible abuse. None came to light, he said.
Almaraj then assigned Jeyapaul to the bishop's house, where he is in 
charge of compiling seniority lists for teachers in the diocese's schools.
Associated Press writer Pat Condon contributed to this story from 
Minneapolis.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ilg-XpU7rvtWx3qbEwd152oTmBiwD9ESS0U80

 bishop told The Associated Press on Monday.
Non ne avevo letto nulla nelle cronache indiane, mi chiedo se se ne
dirà qualcosa mai.  Probabilmente no.  Sembra stranissimo agli
stranieri appena arrivati, ma in India il cristianesimo è una
religione protetta, specialmente da cronache della sinistra come lo
Hindu, e quelli che lo criticano generalmente vengono denigrati come
fondamentalisti fanatici fascisti blah blah blah.  Sai, la pratica di
tali atei ai quali piace celebrare ogni religioni, con tutte le sue
idiozie, solo se non sia quella della maggioranza.

 religione protetta
LOL.
http://www.evangelici.net/notizie/1269618730.html
http://www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org/it1/Articolo.asp?c=369205
http://www.avvenire.it/Mondo/india+venerdi+santo_201004021054578870000.htm
http://www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org/it1/Articolo.asp?c=368606
http://www.radio.rai.it/grr/view.cfm?V_IDNOTIZIA=58414&Q_PROG_ID=421&Tematica=27
e siamo solo agli ultimi 10 giorni...
Purtroppo la questione è un'altra, ovvero che non è il cristianesimo
ad essere protetto, ma i pedofili, di qualsiasi religione siano:
Il record di pedofili? In India Che non è un Paese cattolico...
Il sito Asiasentinel, riporta, per esempio, i dati rilevati
dall’associazione Samvada, dalle ricerche della quale risulta che in
11 scuole il 47% di ragazze tra i 15 e i 21 anni è stato oggetto di
molestia sessuale, e che il 15% aveva meno di 10 anni. Asiasentinel,
già nel 2007, rivela che l’India è la patria di più di 375 milioni di
bambini, che rappresentano il 40% della popolazione. Nonostante il suo
ethos della non-violenza, la tolleranza e la spiritualità, prosegue
Asiasentinel, l’India ospita il maggior numero al mondo di bambini
abusati sessualmente, a un tasso molto superiore rispetto a qualsiasi
altro paese.
http://www.ilgiornale.it/interni/il_record_pedofili_in_india_che_non_e_paese_cattolico/30-03-2010/articolo-id=433581-page=0-comments=1

Sbagliai, ecco oggi:
http://beta.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article389682.ece
Particolarmente buffo: "He has been kept away from children and
people."
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Indian priest accused of sexual abuse to face probe in U.S.
Roman Catholic priest Rev. Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul, facing charges
of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Minnesota, United Sates,
was on Tuesday asked by the Archbishop of Madras to return to the U.S.
for further investigations.
As the Diocese of Udhagamandalam, the home Diocese of Jeypaul, which
oversees the priest of Indian origin, said it is probing the matter in
detail. The Archbishop of Madras Rev. Fr. M. Chinnappa said he has
spoken to the Bishop of Ootacamund on Tuesday to take action against
the priest. Fr. Jeyapaul is currently staying in the hill town in
Tamil Nadu.
“I have asked the Bishop of Ooty to comply with the demands of the
case. Jeyapaul must return to the U.S. if necessary for further
investigations. He has to oblige. There is no way out,” Fr. Chinnappa
said in Chennai.
Prosecutors in Minnesota yesterday said they were trying to extradite
55-year-old Jeyapaul. Fr. Jeyapaul, however, has denied the sexual
abuse allegations and reported to have said he has no plans to return
to the U.S. to face the courts there.
In a statement handed over to reporters, who had gone to meet Fr.
Jeyapaul in Udhagamandalam, Bishop Fr. Amulraj of the Diocese said the
matter has already been referred to the Catholic Bishops Conference of
India (CBCI), the highest Catholic Organistaion in India for necessary
direction.
Fr. Amulraj earlier said Fr. Jeyapaul had gone to meet his advocate to
Chennai regarding the cases, which came to limelight through the
press.
In the statement, Fr. Amulraj stated that it was true that the said
priest was working in the Diocese of Crookstone in the State of
Minnesota in the U.S. from September 2004 to August 2005.
“Suddenly he had to rush back to India to see his ailing mother and he
never returned to U.S. since then,” Fr. Amulraj said.
“In the meantime some sexual abuse cases connected to Fr. Jeyapaul
emerged and we conducted an enquiry into the matter.
“As the above allegations could not be proved beyond doubt, he was
placed under the direct supervision of the Bishop.
“Now the same allegations have come up to limelight through the press,
we are studying the matter in detail,” he said.
People in and around the area are tight-lipped about the presence of
Fr. Jeyapaul either in the Bishop’s house or in the Nilgiris, since he
was instrumental in providing jobs, including temporary ones, to the
poor and needy in 12 schools run by the Diocese, a worker in one of
the schools said on the condition of anonymity.
Father Babu Joseph of the CBCI said, “he(Jeyapaul) will certainly
cooperate with the civil authorities (in US) inquiring into the matter
in case there is further need for him to go to the US.”
“We are taking the allegations against him (Jeyapaul) seriously,”
Joseph said, adding “already some administrative actions have been
taken against him.”
“He has not been assigned any parish or any pastor work. On the
contrary he has been asked to stay in the Bishop’s house and help out
in his office work... He has been kept away from children and people,”
he added.

 altro paese.
http://www.ilgiornale.it/interni/il_record_pedofili_in_india_che_non_.
..
And your point would be...?  Temo che stia immaginando
un'interlocutore che non sarebbe io né nessuno in questo gruppo.

Ora in italiano (ma non ancora sui siti ecclesiastici tipo
Radiovaticana, ma aspettiamo...).
http://www.asca.it/news-PEDOFILIA__PRETE_ACCUSATO_DI_ABUSI_ORA_LAVORA_IN_SCUOLE_IN_INDIA-907279-ORA-.html
PEDOFILIA: PRETE ACCUSATO DI ABUSI ORA LAVORA IN SCUOLE IN INDIA
(ASCA-AFP) - Chicago, 6 apr - Padre Joseph Jeyapaul, un prete accusato
di aver molestato due ragazze negli Stati Uniti, ha passato gli ultimi
cinque anni lavorando in alcune scuole cattoliche dell'India, malgrado
l'allarme lanciato da un vescovo statunitense che aveva scritto al
Vaticano. Secondo i documenti resi noti dagli avvocati delle vittime,
il vescovo del Minnesota, Victor Balke, aveva chiesto nel 2005 alla
Santa Sede e alla diocesi dell'India di intervenire per evitare i
''gravi rischi'' per le donne e le ragazze delle parrocchie
rappresentati da padre Jeyapaul.
Nonostante la richiesta e i tentativi delle autorita' giudiziarie del
Minnesota di ottenere l'estradizione del sacerdote per violenze
sessuali su minori, il prete non e' stato rimosso dal suo incarico di
segretario della commissione educazione della diocesi di Ootacamund.
''I soli a sapere che si trattava di uno stupratore erano il vescovo e
il Vaticano. Hanno mantenuto il segreto perche' erano preoccupati per
la loro reputazione invece che dei ragazzi'', ha detto all'AFP
l'avvocato Jeff Anderson, rappresentante legale di una ragazza di 16
anni violentata da padre Jeyapaul, che nel 2004 era stato
temporaneamente assegnato alla diocesi di Crookston nel Minnesota.
Il vescovo A. Amalraj, capo della diocesi di Ootacamund nello stato di
Tamil Nadu, ha confermato all'AFP che padre Jeyapaul lavora ancora per
la commissione educazione. ''Non ci sono accuse di nessun tipo contro
di lui in India'', ha detto Amalraj, spiegando che su direttiva della
Congregazione per la dottrina della fede il prete viene tenuto sotto
controllo nella sua stessa residenza.

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che quel prete non è perseguito non perchè in India si tutelano i
cattolici, ma perchè non si persegue per niente la pedofilia

 cattolici,
Ma lo fanno.
 ma perchè non si persegue per niente la pedofilia
Sono pienamente d'accordo.

 di lui in India'', ha detto Amalraj,
LOL, come direbbe Amaryllide.  E' verissimo, la plaga di pedofilia in
India è disgustosa, incredibile, e la classe intellettuale non cessa
mai di lamentarsene -- il che, purtroppo, è forse quasi tutto che si
può fare, per ora, nonostante la legge, piccolo cane che abbaia ma
corre via se si torni ad affrontarlo, come si dice della legge qui.

 the schools said on the condition of anonymity.
Vedi la situazione qui.  Ricordiamo che la giustizia non è tanto
facile da fare quanto può parere a noi, leggendo tali storie a casa
sull'internet-- sì, anche io, che posso vedere il mondo di tali poveri
quasi dalla mia finestra, ma non devo abitarli.