(5 Apr 2010) HEADLINE: Priest accused of US abuse still working in India
CAPTION: Top officials at the Vatican were warned more than four years ago about a Catholic priest later charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Minnesota, according to newly released Vatican correspondence, but to this day he continues to work in his home diocese in India. (April 5)
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An advocacy group is saying Catholic leaders just don''t get it when it comes to dealing with abuse allegations.
That latest charge comes amid the release of some previously secret Vatican documents.
According to the top church officials were warned more than 4 years ago about the Rev. Joseph Jeyapaul.
Then in 2007, he was charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Minnesota but to this day he continues to work in his home diocese in India.
((Anderson SOT: What those documents demonstrate is business as usual. When there is a cleric such as this who has been moved and who offends and re-offends, commits crimes of rape of children and it is discovered top officials are concerned more about their reputation than the well-being of the kids.))
The Vatican has dismissed those accusations as a smear campaign...
And during Easter services around the world members of the Catholic church rallied around pope and praised his job performance.
((SOT from Donald Wuerl/Archbishop of Washington))
Prosecutors in Minnesota say they are trying to extradite Reverend Jeyapaul.
Jeyapaul has denied the abuse allegations and said he has no plans to return to the U-S to appear in court.
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