In a startling revelation, over 20 children have been rescued from an illegal Christian orphanage running in the Kathua district of Jammu & Kashmir. They have accused the pastor who ran the orphanage, Father Thomas Anthony, of grave accusations such as sexual abuse, exploitation, wrongful confinement etc.
According to the official reports, eight girls and four boys were rescued from the illegal orphanage, following a written complaint lodged against the orphanage by the teachers of the local government school, as they received a whiff of the murky work that ran beneath the façade of the orphanage. The young children hailed from nearby towns like Samba, Bari Brahmana, Jammu, while a large chunk of them came from the town of Gurdaspur, Punjab.
Curiously, the orphanage, run by Father Thomas Anthony, had no official permission. This was being run from a rented accommodation in the town of Kathua and had neither official documents nor boards or papers. The accused told the police that his ‘orphanage’ was a sister concern of the Pentecostal Mission that is operational in Pathankot. However, after investigation into the same, it turned out that the Pentecostal Mission had never granted any permission to run an orphanage in Kathua, as reported by Assistant Revenue Commissioner of Kathua, Jitendra Mishra.
According to Mr. Mishra, the district administration has shifted the children to the local BAL Ashram and Nari Niketan, while informing their relatives and families about the same. A detailed inquiry of the case will be conducted and the children shall be examined as well.
Interestingly, even as we talk about this case, doesn’t the word ‘Kathua’ ring a bell in our minds? Yes, it’s the same town which was unfortunately dragged into notoriety as the horrifying rape and murder of a young girl surfaced in early March. Botched investigations on a local basis, followed by doctored witnesses such as Talib Hussain claimed that the incident happened within the premises of a local temple, which was enough to send the liberal brigade into frenzy, who painted an entire religion as ‘rapist’ and anyone, who called for a fair trial, as ‘rape supporters’.
Starting from journalist Barkha Dutt’s propaganda article in ‘The Washington Post’, to the farcical campaign of ‘I Am Hindustan, I Am Ashamed’ by the elite cartel of Bollywood, the campaign for ‘justice’ soon turned into a vicious ‘Hindu shaming’ procession, which was thankfully thwarted when judicial investigations deemed it otherwise. Though the matter was shifted out from Jammu & Kashmir, the damage had already been done.
Now that the culprit is not ‘a Hindu priest’, but a Christian pastor who unleashed the horror in a shady orphanage, the very intellectual cabal is mysteriously silent. Is this case not equal, or is it not relevant enough to make an outrage? This silence is not coincidental; it reeks of selective outrage, which the so called intellectuals have in abundance. We only wonder as to how long people continue to be fooled by such malice.
