GoaChronicle.com brings to its readers shocking details of the nun complaints of her sexual abuse to Priests, Bishops, Archbishops, Cardinals and finally Pope Francis but they all ignored her cries for relief and justice. Are these clergymen not guilty?

In the month of June 2017, the victim nun met Rev. Fr. Joseph Thadathil – the Parish Priest of Kuravilangad Church and also Bishop Joseph Kallarangatt the Bishop of Palai Diocese. She explained to them about the sexual exploitation that she suffered from Bishop Franco from 2014 to 2016 and his continued torture through various means of intimidation because she took the courage to resist his sexual advances.

Under the direction of Bishop Kallarangatt and Bishop Vadakkel, Bishop of Ujjain diocese; she had then given a letter to Cardinal Mar George Alencherry – Head of the Syro-Malabar Church through Bishop Vadakkel by hand, on 11.07.2017.

She had also given the same complaint letter to Bishop Vadakkel explaining her mental agony and sufferings, and that of the other Missionaries of Jesus sisters under Bishop Franco Mulakkal.

On 23.11.2017, she met Cardinal Mar George Alencherry personally and told him all that she had faced from Bishop Franco. He heard her complaint but did nothing to address her grievance.

And in December 2017, since Bishop Franco was planning to trap her and her companion sister with a police case in Jalandhar; she in a telephonic appealed to the Cardinal to arrange an appointment with the Apostolic Nuncio, so that she could explain her pain and misery. But she did not get any positive response from the Cardinal. He heard once again but did nothing.

The nun even requested Bishop Vadakkel before she asked Cardinal Alencherry for a chance to meet the Vatican Representative of India (Apostolic Nuncio). He assured the nun that he will arrange a chance for me her to meet with the Vatican Representative of India when the Nuncio came to Kochi in the month of October 2017. But he did not arrange a meeting.

So in desperation of January 28th, 2018 she wrote a letter to the Apostolic Nuncio directly and in her complaint against Bishop Franco, she clearly mentions about her rape, sexual exploitation, mental torture and police complaint filed against her in the Jalandhar police.

The letter to the Vatican Representative was personally handed over by Bishop Kurian Valiayakandathil – the Bishop of Bhagalpur, who is also one of the witnesses that the Kerala police interrogated.

The nun waited for five months, but she did not receive any reply from the Apostolic Nuncio’s office.

Therefore on 14.05.2018, she decided to send letters to three Church Officials in Rome by courier and by tracking it, she confirmed that they have received it on 18.05.2018.

These letters were sent to the following:

Most Rev. Archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaia Ferrer SJ. Prefetto Congreegazione Dotrina, Della Fede, 00120C’itta Del Vaticano;

Cardinal Ouellet Card. Marc P.S.S,Prefetto Congreegazione Per I Vescovi,00120 C’itta Del vaticano

Pope Francis 00120 C’itta Del vaticano.

Thereafter she waited for more than a month but she did receive any reply other than the delivery receipt of the DHL courier.

She made one more attempt on 22.06.2018 to the State Secretary. Most. Rev. Cardinal Pietro Parolin Segretario di statto 00120 Vatican City, which was received there on 25.06.2018.

On seeing all these police cases against her and her family members by the Jalandhar authorities, she was shocked and frightened .

She the approached and spoke the Archbishop Anil Couto. Metropolitan, Delhi Region during his visit to our community in Kuravilangad in May 2018, and later over phone and she and another nun narrated their mental agony and struggle.

But Archbishop Couto deflected the issue and did nothing.

He, like the others, gave her the e-mail ID of Apostolic Nuncio and asked her to write to the Vatican Representative.

On 24.06.2018, the same night itself at 11.45 pm. She sent an urgent mail to the Vatican Representative in India.

Yet again she did not get any response.

Therefore on 28-06-2018, she filed a case against Bishop Franco Mulakkal with the Kerala Police.

20 nuns left the Missionaries of Jesus congregation in the last five-years, when Bishop Franco Mulakkal was supervising the functioning of the congregation.

Kerala police have confirmed to IndianExpose that there are two more complaints of sexual harassment by nuns against Bishop Franco Mulakkal.

The Vatican after 85 days of knowing about the ordeal of the nun and the act of rape by Bishop Franco Mulakkal finally told media that it would appoint a one-member probe panel to investigate the complaint of the nun.

This only happened because of the huge uproar in India demanding for justice for the nun and arrest of Bishop Franco.

The Vatican even finally relived the accused Bishop temporarily on his letter of request to be relieved and appoint a care-taker in his absence. He wanted cooperate with the investigations.

The question that we as Indians and Christians should be asking is, if the nun did not go to the Kerala police, the crime of multiple rape and sodomy would have been hidden behind the secret walls of the Catholic Church.