പുരോഹിതരും കന്യാസ്ത്രീകളും വെളിപ്പെടുത്തുന്നു. കെ. സി ആർ.എം. ദേശീയ സമ്മേളനം വിളിച്ചു.

പുരോഹിതരുംകന്യാസ്ത്രീകളുംവെളിപ്പെടുത്തുന്നു.  കെ. സി ആർ.എം. ദേശീയ സമ്മേളനം വിളിച്ചു

 

.For Molly George, who is in her late forties, leaving the nunnery was not as smooth as it was for Maria. She actually ran away in fear of being raped and killed. George is also from Palai, Kottayam, and also joined the order as a way out of poverty. She joined the convent at the age of 17, and, after two years of training, was sent to the Andamans for social service. “Initially, I enjoyed the life [there]. I had a lot of things to do in service of the poor. Gradually, I realised that all was not well around me. I was sexually harassed by a Parish priest. When I wouldn’t give in to his advances, he started intimidating and spreading rumours about me. I complained to the Mother Superior, but was disappointed by her response. I was assigned work at a village quite far from the convent and had to walk 5-6 km every day. The road through the forest was often deserted and this man used to follow me. I was thoroughly scared. I was even afraid that he would kill me. I wrote to my sisters that I do not want to be another Abhaya [a nun who was famously murdered]. I decided to come back to Kerala. My elder sister sent a telegram that my mother was seriously unwell and so they allowed me to go. I never went back.”

Back home, George was supported by her three sisters, but her three brothers gave her a hostile welcome. They got her married off. In her case, there was no property to share, a common reason for brothers to treat their sisters exiting nunneries as pariahs. George’s husband was a former priest, but his family didn’t accept them. George, her husband and two children now live in Kottayam, and she does menial jobs to support the family.

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