Italian news programme TgCom24 has reported a terrible new rape case in India, involving a 28 year old Catholic nun. The woman was raped for a week by a group her cousin belonged to in Orissa. Archbishop John Barwa strongly condemned the incident and said he hoped the guilty parties would be brought to justice and that the law would take its course.

 

The night mare lasted from 5-11 July. The nun, who is finishing college in Chennai, was lured into the trap by her cousin: she was told her mother had fallen very ill and the group’s members offered to accompany her to her mother’s village so she could visit her.




Instead, the girl was taken to an unidentified location and raped for an entire week. She miraculously managed to escape her abductors and pressed charges.  

 

The President of the Indian Bishops’ Conference, Cardinal Oswald Gracias, decried the incident, stating: “I condemn this gang rape of this young nun in the strongest possible terms.  This is gang rape is physical and emotional terrorism against our woman.”

 

"This violation of our young woman religious is evil act inflicted on this woman religious who has consecrated  her life to God Rape is an abhorrent crime and an abominable transgression against the honour of women and reflects abysmal state of women in  our society, community and nation,” the cardinal said.

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