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A temple clergyman was recovered blameworthy by a POCSO tribunal successful Thiruvananthapuram for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old miss successful the pretext of performing rituals to “drive distant evil spirits.”
Thiruvananthapuram Additional Sessions Court Judge Shibu M.P. convicted Bineesh, a autochthonal of Moothakunnam successful Paravur, Ernakulam, and posted the lawsuit to February 28 for pronouncing the sentence.
According to the prosecution, the accused had been serving arsenic the clergyman astatine a temple successful Kannammoola successful the city. The incidental occurred successful 2019 erstwhile the survivor, past a Class IX student, who suffered from exam-related anxiety, was taken to the clergyman by her parent for peculiar prayers.
The clergyman allegedly misled the genitor into believing that the kid was possessed and required circumstantial rituals to region the “affliction.” He past took the insignificant into his puja country attached to the temple premises.
Over aggregate days, the clergyman subjected the miss to brutal intersexual abuse, the prosecution led by Special Public Prosecutor Ajith Prasad J.K. stated.
When the child’s anxiousness did not subside, her parent took her to a intelligence wellness facility, wherever the miss disclosed the maltreatment to a doctor, who alerted the police. A lawsuit was registered and the subsister was sent for aesculapian examination.
A doc astatine the Government Women and Children Hospital, Thycaud, documented the injuries and submitted a elaborate report.
