Judge Convicts Deaf Men For Girl's Rape

A Delhi court has convicted two hearing and speech impaired for offences which included committing unnatural sex on a five-year-old girl.

NEW DELHI, India -- Additional Sessions Judge Ashwani Kumar Sarpal held the duo guilty after finding that the duo had conspired with each other in kidnapping the minor for the purpose of illicit sexual intercourse. They also held that the victim was so young that she could not even save herself and resist the attackers.

The incident took place in 2012 when the girl and her family went to her maternal uncle Abdul Gaffar's house during Holi. On March 8, 2012 she went missing while playing outside the house. Following this, when Gaffar started looking for her at 5.45 am on that day, he found his niece with a person who ran away after seeing him.

When asked, the victim confided in her uncle that one of the accused, who was accompanied by another man, forcibly abducted her after closing her mouth. Thereafter she was given bites on her lips, cheeks and chest following which she was raped.

The victim became unconscious on the day of the incident and recorded her statement a day later.

One of the accused was arrested on March 9, 2012 and the 'Pajami' (lower) of the victim was recovered at his instance. Subsequently, the second accused was also apprehended on March 12, 2012.

The accused persons who recorded their statement through sign language stated that they being falsely implicated and were ignorant about the present case.

Appearing for the accused, their counsel contended that no witnesses were joined in the probe. However, the court quashed this argument and stated that non-joining of any public witness itself was not fatal to the prosecution's case because often the general public do not easily agree to join police proceedings for a number of reasons. These include going to police station or court, fear of accused, or to maintain good relations with the accused, and to avoid any confrontation with him.

"Public persons are ready to watch the 'Tamasha' at the spot by standing at some distance but do not become ready to co-operate with the police," the judge said.

The court added that the victim has already suffered lot of trauma and grievous injuries at the hand of the accused persons. Even if the victim had not complained to anyone when she was brought back to her house, it could not be said that she was lying.

"It cannot be expected from a child of five years of age who was subjected to various injuries and sexual assault to stop people on the way and make a complaint to passersby," the judge said in its order.

The court fixed September 12 as the date for arguments on the quantum of sentence.

SOURCE - Daily News & Analysis

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Catholic Nun Helping Priests 'Rape' Deaf Kids

Nun arrested for physical abuse and for helping pedophilia priests to 'rape' dozens of Deaf kids at Catholic school in Pope's native country.

MENDOZA, Argentina -- A Roman Catholic nun from Japan has been arrested and charged on suspicion of helping priests sexually abuse children at a school for youths with hearing disabilities in Argentina, authorities said.

Kosaka Kumiko, 42, was charged with helping the priests with anal and vaginal rapes, fondling and oral sex , which were allegedly committed in the bathrooms, dormitories, garden and a basement at the school in Lujan de Cuyo, a city about 620 miles northwest of Buenos Aires.

'I am innocent,' she told judicial officials, who ordered her to be taken into custody at a local women's prison while detectives investigate the alleged crimes.

The nun, who has Argentine citizenship, has also been charged with physically abusing the students - whose torments could only be heard by those abusing them since the other children were Deaf - at the Antonio Provolo Institute for children with hearing impairment in northwestern Mendoza province. But she denied any wrongdoing during an eight-hour court hearing late Thursday.

She was shown being led by police in handcuffs, and wearing her habit and a bullet-proof vest.

The case against Kumiko began after a former student accused her of making her wear a diaper to cover up a hemorrhage after she was allegedly raped by priest Horacio Corbacho.

At least 24 students from the Provolo Institute of Mendoza have come forward to accuse Corbacho, fellow priest Nicola Corradi and three other men.

The children said the two Roman Catholic priests continuously raped them, beside the image of the Virgin Mary.

Police arrested the five accused men last November, finding a slew of pornographic magazines and about $34,000 in Corradi’s room.

'They always said it was a game: "Let’s go play, let’s go play" and they would take us to the girls’ bathroom,' one of the women who was abused at the Argentine school alleged.

Corradi and Corbachoi were arrested last year after they were charged with sexually abusing at least two dozen students at the Provolo Institute.

They are being held at a jail in Mendoza and have not spoken publicly since their arrest.

If found guilty, the accused face up to 50 years in prison. Corradi had earlier been accused in Italy of abusing students at the Provolo Institute in Verona, a notorious school for the Deaf where hundreds of children are believed to have been sexually assaulted over the years by two dozen priests and religious brothers.

Advocates for clerical sex abuse have expressed anger that Corradi wasn't sanctioned by the Vatican and allegedly went on to abuse children in Pope Francis' native Argentina.

Three school employees, Jorge Bordon, Jose Luis Ojeda and Armando Gomez, were also arrested and remain in custody.

Investigators are looking into more than 30 testimonies against the priests and teaching staff.

2009: Abuse at the Provolo Institute - which also has a branch in Italy - was first brought to light. Several students came forward and named and accused priests, including Corradi, who has been names again for abusing children in the Argentine Branch of the institute

2010: Vatican ordered its northern Italy branch - the Verona diocese - to investigate the claims

2012: the Vatican apologized and sent the results of the investigation to the victims. Four of the accused priests were sanctioned while a fifth was exempted because he had Alzheimers. The priests who were sanctioned were ordered to live a life of prayer and penance and were under supervision, away from children, the Associated Press reported in 2016

2014: The students penned a letter, naming Corradi - who was now in the Pope's native Argentina - but they received no response

2016: According to the Associated Press, a Vatican official said Pope Francis wanted to assure the victims that the church was taking steps to tackle the continuous sexual abuse. In December 2016, he used sign language while delivering his Christmas message, which fell on deaf years in Argentina as the controversy was unfolding.

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Deaf Girl, 5, Raped, Left To Struggle For Life

Deaf News: 5-year-old Deaf girl 'brutally' raped, left to struggle for life.

VARANASI, India -- A five-year-old Deaf girl is struggling for life at ICU of SSL hospital of BHU after being raped by a youth. The accused was caught red-handed by the villagers and handed over to Manduadih police after heavy thrashing in the wee hours on Thursday.

According to reports, Sanjay (24), a native of Ghazipur who lives near Phulwaria gate, worked as a labourer. He first struck at Patelbasti of Chandpur area and tried to lift a minor girl, sleeping with her mother outside their residence, but fortunately, the girl woke up and started crying following which other family members also came out of the house. They chased Sanjay, but he managed to escape.

After few minutes, he raided Natbasi in the neighbouring locality where he kidnapped the physically challenged minor girl, who was also sleeping with mother outside their hut. As the Deaf girl could not raise alarm, Sanjay took her to a neighbouring field and raped the minor.

In the meantime, the mother of the hapless girl woke up and raised an alarm. On hearing this, people of the locality came out of their houses and started searching the girl. On seeing the people entering the field, Sanjay tried to escape leaving the girl in a pool of blood. The people of this locality chased him while residents of Patelbasti also reached from the opposite side after which Sanjay was caught and beaten brutally.

After this information, police also reached there and somehow rescued Sanjay from the angry mob. The girl was immediately rushed to SPG divisional hospital where the doctors referred her to SSL hospital of BHU in view of sharp deterioration in the health condition of the girl.

SSP Nitin Tiwari reached the hospital to see the condition of girl and assured to extend financial support to her family for the proper treatment of rape survivor. He said that two cases, including raping the minor after kidnapping and bid to kidnap another minor, had been lodged against Sanjay, who was sent to jail.

SOURCE - The Times of India

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