A sexual abuse survivor has scored an unprecedented victory against the
Catholic Church, with an Indian diocese removing a predator priest
who’d been shockingly reinstated after assaulting the woman when she was
a teen in the U.S.
Officials in the Diocese of Ootacamund are removing Rev. Joseph Jeyapaul from the ministry and barring him from working with children. In a legal settlement, the diocese also agreed to provide sex abuse survivor Megan Peterson, formerly of Queens, with annual updates on the whereabouts and activities of Jeyapaul, the priest she says assaulted her when she was a teenager. She’d sued the diocese in federal court upon learning of Jeyapaul’s reinstatement.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/indian-diocese-removes-predator-priest-fled-u-s-justice-article-1.2817082
Officials in the Diocese of Ootacamund are removing Rev. Joseph Jeyapaul from the ministry and barring him from working with children. In a legal settlement, the diocese also agreed to provide sex abuse survivor Megan Peterson, formerly of Queens, with annual updates on the whereabouts and activities of Jeyapaul, the priest she says assaulted her when she was a teenager. She’d sued the diocese in federal court upon learning of Jeyapaul’s reinstatement.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/indian-diocese-removes-predator-priest-fled-u-s-justice-article-1.2817082