Catholic media of India stood up for a priest accused of raping a minor. It is reported India Today.
As has established a consequence, the rector of the Church of St. Sebastian in Kannur, Kerala, made dissolute actions concerning minors. Robin’s dad, aka Matthew Vadakkanchery, repeatedly raped 15-year-old girl parishioner. After one of the sexual intercourse she became pregnant, after which she was placed in a private hospital. When she was delivered from the burden of the child behind her gave to the orphanage. The father Robin fled, but was caught.
A priest stood up to the Catholic press. The publication Sunday Shalom, expressing, as it stated, the opinion of the local Catholic bishops, criticized for a rape victim.
“So the girl has passed 15 years, the article says. I’ll tell you, as told to her daughter — the incident is your fault. Before God you will answer first. My daughter, why have you forgotten who is the priest? He is a man with a human body and subject to temptations and temptations. Maybe for a few seconds he forgot about his duty, but why are you, child, partaking of the Holy Gifts is not stopped and corrected him?”
While father Paul Thelakat of the Episcopal Council of the accused in the incident, consumer attitude to life. According to him, the priest from Kannur fell victim to a media that promotes consumerism and depict woman in the form of goods, forgetting that it is primarily people. The priest urged not to forget that the case of the father Robin is out of the ordinary. Just in India are almost 20 thousand Catholic priests, nine thousand of them in Kerala, they lead a righteous life.
However, the article in the Sunday Shalom has caused outrage in the Indian media, which accused the Christian publishing is that it puts the responsibility for the incident on the victim.