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Kottiyoor case: Kerala high court reduces jail term of former Catholic priest
| Dec 02, 2021, 06:26:42 PM | Times Now
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The Kerala high court on Wednesday upheld the conviction of defrocked Catholic priest Robin alias Mathew Vadakkumchirayil in the infamous Kottiyoor child rape case of 2016 but reduced his punishment to rigorous imprisonment for 10 years. He was originally sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for 20 years. Justice R Narayana Pisharadi said in the judgment that such a sentence would “meet the ends of justice in the case.” The court considered an appeal filed by 51-yedakkumchirayil House at Nadavayal near Manathavady in Wayanad. He was the vicar of Neendunokki praish at Kottiyoor under Mananthavadi diocese of Syro Malabar Church when the child rape took place. The girl was raped in the room attached to the church where the priest was staying when she stayed back to do “computer work” after holy mass one day in May 2016. The girl had initially told police that it was her own father that raped her. The girl, her mother, and her father had not supported the prosecution’s case during trial.
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