- Aussie probed over child sex in India
- The Age - AAP
- 18/11/2008 Make a Comment
- Contributed by: The Rooster ( 264 articles in 2008 )
Police in eastern India have interrogated an Australian doctor who was arrested on suspicion of pedophilia, a police spokesman said.
The doctor, a volunteer at the Mary-Ellen Gerber Children's Village orphanage, had identified himself as Paul Allen, 60, but travel documents showed his name as "Allen Herbert Rose," police said.
"The accused doctor is not co-operating with the police," Orissa police official Gyana Mohapatra told Agence France-Presse on Monday.
"He has not been furnishing any personal details and has been trying to mislead the investigation. We have requested the federal home ministry to take up the matter with the Australian Embassy."
The doctor was arrested in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh state last Wednesday by police acting on complaints from orphanage authorities.
He was brought back to Orissa, where he is being held in custody after being denied bail.
The doctor, who has been associated with the orphanage since 2002 but is believed to have been living in India for 25 years, was staying on the premises.
The community in Puri town, 65 kilometres east of state capital Bhubaneswar, is home to 85 boys and girls aged between five and 18.
At least five alleged victims of the doctor, all boys aged between 13 and 17, came forward on Sunday to testify in chambers before a local magistrate, a court source who was present told AFP.
The victims told the court that they had been "terrorised and tortured by the Australian doctor to have unnatural sex with him," the source said Monday.
The international voluntary group, with offices in Canada, the United States and France, opened the Puri facility in 2000 to look after children left destitute or orphaned by the October 1999 super cyclone that devastated the state and killed tens of thousands of people.
A 2003 law provides for imprisonment of up to 10 years and a fine of 200,000 rupees ($A7,000) for those found guilty of pedophilia.
Last year, a Goa court handed 44-year-old Australian national Warner Wulf Ingo a 10-year prison sentence after finding him guilty of sodomy, sex with minors, abduction and criminal conspiracy.
The doctor, a volunteer at the Mary-Ellen Gerber Children's Village orphanage, had identified himself as Paul Allen, 60, but travel documents showed his name as "Allen Herbert Rose," police said.
"The accused doctor is not co-operating with the police," Orissa police official Gyana Mohapatra told Agence France-Presse on Monday.
"He has not been furnishing any personal details and has been trying to mislead the investigation. We have requested the federal home ministry to take up the matter with the Australian Embassy."
The doctor was arrested in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh state last Wednesday by police acting on complaints from orphanage authorities.
He was brought back to Orissa, where he is being held in custody after being denied bail.
The doctor, who has been associated with the orphanage since 2002 but is believed to have been living in India for 25 years, was staying on the premises.
The community in Puri town, 65 kilometres east of state capital Bhubaneswar, is home to 85 boys and girls aged between five and 18.
At least five alleged victims of the doctor, all boys aged between 13 and 17, came forward on Sunday to testify in chambers before a local magistrate, a court source who was present told AFP.
The victims told the court that they had been "terrorised and tortured by the Australian doctor to have unnatural sex with him," the source said Monday.
The international voluntary group, with offices in Canada, the United States and France, opened the Puri facility in 2000 to look after children left destitute or orphaned by the October 1999 super cyclone that devastated the state and killed tens of thousands of people.
A 2003 law provides for imprisonment of up to 10 years and a fine of 200,000 rupees ($A7,000) for those found guilty of pedophilia.
Last year, a Goa court handed 44-year-old Australian national Warner Wulf Ingo a 10-year prison sentence after finding him guilty of sodomy, sex with minors, abduction and criminal conspiracy.
Source: https://news.theage.com.au/world/aussie-probed-over-child-sex-in-india-20081118-699t.html
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