Kerala sex scandal: To save a priest from disgrace, I falsely said I raped my daughter, says girl’s father

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OVER A dozen photographs of various Catholic saints adorn a weather-beaten wall of this small, three-room, tiled house on a hill at Kottiyoor in Kannur. “Children are a gift from God,’’ reads a Biblical verse scribbled over one image. This is the home of the girl who delivered a baby last month after being raped, allegedly by a priest at the local parish. Where a grieving mother laments the “disgrace” that has tainted the family. And where a heart-broken father had to falsely admit that he had raped his own daughter to “protect the priest and the Church” in what is now being described as the worst sex scandal in the history of Kerala’s Catholic establishment.

http://indianexpress.com/article/india/kerala-priest-st-sebastians-church-father-robin-vadakkuncheril-kottiyoor-kannur-catholic-establishment-4564391/

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The definition of putting the messenger over the message??