An incident has taken place in the Madurai CSI Church where a priest has been accused of sexually harassing a teenage boy who had come to train as a pastor under him by forcing the boy to have gay sex.
David Jebaraj is a pator at the Cathedral Church owned by the CSI Church in the Narimedu area of Madurai. There has been a stir in Madurai over posters claiming that David Jebaraj who is currently working at the Sivakasi West church, was sexually harassing young people in the name of training them to become pastors. Kumutham Reporter magazine has published an article in this regard.
A young boy who was sexually harassed has revealed shocking information about the pastor. The boy had gone to the Cathedral Church in Madurai with his parents. Pastor David Jebaraj had reportedly contacted the young boy and persuaded him to come to the pastor training class. When the boy had refused to join, the pastor had spread rumor and told his parents that he was involved in affairs with girls. The pastor had told the parents that their son would become a better man only if he joins the pastor training class.
The deceived parents made their son enroll for training under him. Within a week of joining, the pastor started revealing his homosexual side and started misbehaving with the teenager. He narrated pornographic stories and had even touched the boy in his private parts when sleeping. When the stunned and scarred boy asked what he was upto, the pastor apparently said that “he was just checking”.
He said that he wanted to escape from the clutches of the pastor somehow and had told some people in the Church who refused to believe him. Later, the boy recorded the pastor’s call in which he had spoken sexually to him which he submitted to the Archbishop. However, the Archbishop transferred the priest to Sivakasi church instead of taking action against him.
The Church had paid the boy ₹15,000 in an attempt to put an end to the matter but no action has been taken against the pastor till now. The Archbishop had reportedly refused to comment on the issue when the Tamil magazine had contacted them.
(With inputs from Kumudham Reporter)
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