சிறுவனுக்கு பாலியல் தொல்லை அளித்த வழக்கு: நீதிமன்றத்தில் கிறிஸ்தவ போதகர் சரண்
திருநெல்வேலி மாவட்டம் வள்ளி யூரிலுள்ள ஆதரவற்றோர் இல்லத்திலிருந்த 15 வயது சிறுவனுக்கு பாலியல் தொல்லை அளித்தது தொடர்பான வழக்கில் நீதிமன்றத்தில் கிறிஸ்தவ போதகர் ஜோனதான் ராபின்சன் (70) நேற்று சரணடைந்தார்.
வள்ளியூர் அருகே சின்னம் மாள்புரத்தை சேர்ந்த வில்லியம் மகன் ஜோனதான் ராபின்சன். சின்னம்மாள்புரத்தில் கிரேல் டிரஸ்ட் என்ற பெயரில் ஆதரவற் றோர் இல்லத்தை நடத்திவந்தார். இந்த இல்லத்தில் தங்கியிருந்த 15 வயது சிறுவனை சென்னை, புதுடெல்லி போன்ற இடங் களுக்கு அழைத்துச் சென்று ஜோனதான் ராபின்சன் பாலியல் தொல்லை கொடுத்ததாக பெங் களூரிலுள்ள ஜஸ்டிஸ் அன்ட் கேர் என்ற தன்னார்வத் தொண்டு நிறுவனம் வள்ளியூர் போலீஸில் புகார் அளித்திருந்தது. இந்த புகாரின்பேரில் ஜோனதான் ராபின்சன் மீது போலீஸார் வழக்கு பதிவு செய்தனர்.
வழக்கு பதிவு செய்வதற்கு முன்பே இங்கிலாந்துக்கு ஜோன தான் ராபின்சன் சென்றுவிட்ட தால், அவரை போலீஸாரால் கைது செய்யமுடியவில்லை.
பிடிவாரண்ட் பிறப்பிப்பு
இந்த வழக்கு வள்ளியூரி லுள்ள நீதிமன்றத்தில் விசார ணைக்கு வந்தபோது ஜோன தான் ராபின்சனுக்கு ஜாமீனில் வெளிவர முடியாத பிடிவாரண்ட் பிறப்பிக்கப்பட்டது. அதேநேரத் தில் சர்வதேச தேடுதல் அறிவிக் கையை இவருக்கு எதிராக காவல்துறை வெளியிட்டது. இதையடுத்து தன் மீதான முதல் தகவல் அறிக்கையையும், வழக்கையும் தள்ளுபடி செய்ய வேண்டும் என்று கேட்டு உயர்நீதிமன்ற மதுரை கிளையில் ஜோனதான் ராபின்சன் மனு தாக்கல் செய்தார். ஆனால் அந்த மனுவை நீதிமன்றம் தள்ளுபடி செய்தது.
அதேநேரத்தில் ஜோனதான் ராபின்சன் நீதிமன்றத்தில் ஆஜராக உத்தரவாதம் அளித்ததால், அவருக்கு எதிரான சர்வதேச தேடுதல் அறிவிக்கையை திரும் பப்பெறுமாறு போலீஸாருக்கு நீதிமன்றம் உத்தரவிட்டது.
இன்று ஆஜராக உத்தரவு
வள்ளியூர் நீதிமன்றத்தில் இந்த வழக்கு தொடர்பான விசாரணை வரும் ஜனவரி 4-ம் தேதி அன்று வரவிருந்தது. இந்நிலையில் மாஜிஸ்திரேட் ரஸ்கின்ராஜ் முன் னிலையில் ஜோனதான் ராபின் சன் நீதிமன்றத்தில் நேற்று சரணடைந்தார்.
அப்போது தன் மீதான வழக்கு விசாரணையை ஜனவரி 4-ம் தேதிக்கு முன்னதாக மேற் கொள்ள வேண்டும் என்று கோரி அவர் மனு தாக்கல் செய்தார்.
இந்த வழக்கை மாஜிஸ் திரேட் ரஸ்கின்ராஜ் வெள்ளிக் கிழமைக்கு (இன்று) ஒத்தி வைத்தார். அப்போது நீதிமன் றத்தில் ஆஜராகுமாறு ஜோன தான் ராபின்சனுக்கு உத்தரவிடப் பட்டது.
Children rescued from home after abuse by Brit paedophile
Children rescued from home after abuse by Brit paedophile
TIRUNELVELI: Even as the police are exploring legal options to bring to book a British national, who allegedly sodomised children at a home in Tirunelveli, who is at present in far awayLondon,the social welfare department officials have rescued the children from the infamous home on Monday night.
The children - 33 including 10 girls - aged between 10 and 18 years were shifted from the home run by Grail Trust in rural Chinnammalpuram in rural Valliyur to another home named Saranalayam in Tirunelveli city.
"We are taking adequate care that the children are not panicked by the developments. They are quite normal," said district social welfare officer V Umadevi. While the social welfare officials are making inquiries with the children about the abuse by Jonathan Robinson (69), a British national patronising the Grail Trust, police have brought the trustees of the home into the probe net.
Jonathan, who is at present in London, had been visiting the home frequently from 2001 and had allegedly abused the boys in the home. He had also taken one 14-year-old boy to Simla once. Justice and Care, a Bangalore-based NGO that kept a vigil on the visits of Jonathan to the home, lodged a complaint with the child welfare committee based on the sufferings revealed by the victim, which in turn submitted a complaint with the police in Tirunelveli, on August 12.
Suganthi Shaiju of Justice and Care, who interviewed the 14-year-old boy at Saranalayam said that Jonathan had taken him to Simla on April 13, 2011. Before reaching Shimla, they stayed for three days at Delhi, where Jonathan allegedly started abusing the boy sexually. From Simla, Jonathan had left for London. The boy also revealed that he went once with Jonathan to Kodaikanal.
"We have rescued the children because of the suspicion clouding the credentials of the home. We are making inquires with the members of the trust that ran the home. Since the complaint did not mention the name of the trustees, we have not initiated action against them. But we are exploring the legal procedures to bring to book Jonathan," said Tirunelveli SP Vijayendra Bidari.
The home had orphaned children as well single parent children, besides wards of financially poor parents. "They are recounting the visits of Jonathan to the home. Not everyone were victimised," said a social welfare department official.
However, the issue has once again brought to focus the plight of children in homes like these. This is not the first time that abuse of minors lodged in the children's
homes for children, has come to light. Also, this is not the first time a foreigner is accused of sodomising the children.
William Heum, a Dutch national was sentenced to 25 years of rigorous imprisonment for sexually abusing children at a home in Mamallapuram in 2009. Besides child sex abuse, he was also accused of uploading child pornography on the internet.
There are 107 homes for children in Tirunelveli with about 25 children each on an average. The social welfare department officials have now planned to inspect all the homes.
NEW DELHI: UK citizen Paul Meekin, a Bangalore International School principal, was first caught sending a lewd message to a student in January 2012. After his arrest, police found that he had holidayed in Goa with a child with learning disabilities, abused several students, bought a fake PhD off the internet and was wanted for a similar case of abuse in Thailand. With barely a year behind bars, Meekin was granted bail. In April 2014, a non-bailable warrant was issued against him after he missed several hearings. He has reportedly left India and is teaching in a Kuwait school.
Australian Paul Allen posed a godman and healer in Odisha in the 1980s but fled from police custody when he was being investigated on charges of child sexual abuse. He then started a charity home for children in Andhra Pradesh, where again he abused children. He is reported to have posed as an ophthalmologist and a leprosy consultant at various points of time. In June 2014, he is known to have got a stay from the Odisha High Court against a case filed in Andhra. Today, no one knows where Allen is.
Raymond Varley, part of the international ring of pedophiles who preyed on young children (mainly in an orphanage run by the notorious Freddy Peats) in Goa was arrested in 2012 in Thailand because of an Interpol red corner notice and sent to London. CBI continues to fight an uphill legal battle to extradite him to India.
Australian Paul Allen posed a godman and healer in Odisha in the 1980s but fled from police custody when he was being investigated on charges of child sexual abuse. He then started a charity home for children in Andhra Pradesh, where again he abused children. He is reported to have posed as an ophthalmologist and a leprosy consultant at various points of time. In June 2014, he is known to have got a stay from the Odisha High Court against a case filed in Andhra. Today, no one knows where Allen is.
Raymond Varley, part of the international ring of pedophiles who preyed on young children (mainly in an orphanage run by the notorious Freddy Peats) in Goa was arrested in 2012 in Thailand because of an Interpol red corner notice and sent to London. CBI continues to fight an uphill legal battle to extradite him to India.
Varley, Allen and Meekin are part of a growing trend of foreign nationals pretending to be educators and social workers and accessing schools, orphanages and children's homes where they prey on children. Vidya Reddy, director of NGO 'Tulir-Centre for the Prevention and Healing of Child Sex Abuse' who has uncovered several such cases, said the response of authorities was just too slow.
"There are a series of cases where complaints have been lodged but authorities are unable to keep up. These offenders throw away their passports, assume new identities and are out of the country before our police has even informed the embassy to which the national belongs to,'' she said. Several such cases were surfacing from Goa, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Odisha and Karnataka, she said.
London-based Christine Beddoe, former director of ECPAT UK (End Child Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking), said there was a distinct pattern. "These offenders target institutions, build a reputation as saviours in the local community, ingratiate themselves with the community and victims before they prey on children. It makes it difficult for the parents and the children to complain by which time it is too late,'' she said.
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights ( NCPCR) in a 2010 inquiry found that foreign tourists came to Kerala and blended in with the community by offering services like teaching English. "Children are contacted through local mediators and enticed by gifts,'' the report said, recommending that police should keep home-stays on their radar and undertake scrutiny of extension of foreign visas.
"There are a series of cases where complaints have been lodged but authorities are unable to keep up. These offenders throw away their passports, assume new identities and are out of the country before our police has even informed the embassy to which the national belongs to,'' she said. Several such cases were surfacing from Goa, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Odisha and Karnataka, she said.
London-based Christine Beddoe, former director of ECPAT UK (End Child Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking), said there was a distinct pattern. "These offenders target institutions, build a reputation as saviours in the local community, ingratiate themselves with the community and victims before they prey on children. It makes it difficult for the parents and the children to complain by which time it is too late,'' she said.
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights ( NCPCR) in a 2010 inquiry found that foreign tourists came to Kerala and blended in with the community by offering services like teaching English. "Children are contacted through local mediators and enticed by gifts,'' the report said, recommending that police should keep home-stays on their radar and undertake scrutiny of extension of foreign visas.
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