Indian court approves extradition of priest to face abuse charges in US
November 17, 2014
An Indian court has dismissed a priest’s plea, approves his extradition to the US to face charges of sexual abuse.
Father Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul was charged with molesting a teenage girl while serving in the US in 2004. He had returned to India before a criminal charge was filed against him in 2006. But Archbishop Mylapore Chinnappa of Madras urged him to return to America to answer the charge.
In 2011 the US made a formal request for the priest’s extradition. Father Jeyapaul fought the request, but a trial court decided against him and an appeals court in Delhi has affirmed that result.
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