Priest acquitted - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 27 Jun 2019 06:24:08 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Priest acquitted - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Indian court acquits Catholic priest accused of rape https://cathnews.co.nz/2019/06/27/indian-court-priest-rape/ Thu, 27 Jun 2019 07:53:12 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=118851 A court in central India has acquitted a Catholic priest accused of raping a woman in his presbytery after it could not find any merit in the charges filed almost a year ago. A trial court in Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh state, acquitted 52-year-old Bhopal archdiocesan Father George Jacob on June 21. The Read more

Indian court acquits Catholic priest accused of rape... Read more]]> A court in central India has acquitted a Catholic priest accused of raping a woman in his presbytery after it could not find any merit in the charges filed almost a year ago.

A trial court in Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh state, acquitted 52-year-old Bhopal archdiocesan Father George Jacob on June 21.

The priest was arrested last Aug. 11 and sent to jail after a middle-aged woman complained that he raped her after inviting her to his presbytery.

The priest was released on bail on Aug. 20 after a medical report found him incapable of performing the sexual act. Read more

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