Sunday, March 18, 2012

Catholic priest accused in Minnesota rapes is arrested in India...

A fugitive Catholic priest accused of sexually assaulting two underage girls in northern Minnesota eight years ago has been arrested in India, a newspaper reported Saturday.

The Rev. Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul, 57, of Ariyalur, who allegedly committed the crimes in the Diocese of Crookston in 2004, will appear in a New Delhi court on Sunday, according to the Times of India.

"We are grateful to the police and prosecutors in Minnesota and elsewhere for getting this dangerous cleric behind bars," said Barbara Dorris, a national director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP). Full story...

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