Neurologist: Sodomy "Common" in Mother Teresa's Orphanage
Posted August 25, 2005
Sanjeev K Ahuja
Gurgaon, August 23, 2005
Hindustan Times
The Deepashram orphanage at Gurgaon — for mentally and physically challenged
children — has found itself in a controversy after an Italian neurologist
complained to the Vatican Embassy about sexual abuse of children at the home.
The neurologist, Dr Franco, had worked as a volunteer at Deepashram,
established by Mother Teresa in 1995, for six months a couple of years ago.
Brothers Contemplative — the male wing of Missionaries of Charity — manages the
home, which has 66 boys aged between 12 and 26.
Franco registered his complaint at the Apostolic Nunciature, Chanakyapuri.
Second secretary of the Apostolic Nunciature, Father Tomasz Grysa, said they
received the “communication from Dr Franco” in February this year. The case has
been referred to the hierarchical superiors of the Missionaries of Charity
Brothers, Father Grysa said.
At the orphanage, volunteers did not rule out the possibility of sexual abuse
of younger inmates by the older ones. Brother Benedict, a volunteer from Rome,
said: “If any case of this kind is reported to us, the guilty boys are
punished.”
Abdullah, a 15-year-old inmate, said it was “common” for the older boys to
sodomise the younger boys at night when no one was on guard. He accused a
24-year-old of sodomising a 12-year-old. “Bahut se bachche yahan par ganda kaam
karte hain,” he said.
Brother Benedict and attendants dismissed the allegation. Abdullah was shifted
from the children’s home at Majnu Ka Tila to Gurgaon as he was a troublemaker,
Brother Benedict said.
Another volunteer at the orphanage, Dr Wanda Toso from San Raffele Hospital in
Milan, told HT that Franco had also told her about child abuse at Deepashram.
She, however, did not have any personal confirmation from the boys as she did
not speak Hindi.
“I have not been able to interact with the children,” Toso said.
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