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**Rapiddude** · 10-07-2011, 02:10 PM

An Indian priest who pleaded no contest to assaulting a Florida [ Images ] teen is serving in Italy [ Images ] and could have benefitted from the Vatican's leniency, two Minnesota attorneys working on the clerical abuse in the Catholic church have alleged.

Attorneys Jeff Anderson and Mike Finnegan said a Florida family's plea to Pope Benedict XVI to hold Father Vijaya Bhaskar Godugunuru, 41, accountable for the June 2006 sexual abuse of their daughter went unanswered. Earlier, the attorneys released documents accusing Father Joseph Palanivel Jeyapual, who now serves in the Udhagamandalam diocese in Tamil Nadu, of molesting two girls in Minnesota in 2004. No action was taken against him despite the Minnesota bishop writing to the Vatican.

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Rapiddude Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 314 Senior Member	An Indian priest who pleaded no contest to assaulting a Florida [ Images ] teen is serving in Italy [ Images ] and could have benefitted from the Vatican's leniency, two Minnesota attorneys working on the clerical abuse in the Catholic church have alleged. Attorneys Jeff Anderson and Mike Finnegan said a Florida family's plea to Pope Benedict XVI to hold Father Vijaya Bhaskar Godugunuru, 41, accountable for the June 2006 sexual abuse of their daughter went unanswered. Earlier, the attorneys released documents accusing Father Joseph Palanivel Jeyapual, who now serves in the Udhagamandalam diocese in Tamil Nadu, of molesting two girls in Minnesota in 2004. No action was taken against him despite the Minnesota bishop writing to the Vatican.
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