KOTTAYAM: The nun, who was sexually abused by Jalandha bishop Franco Mulackal has sent a letter to Vatican raising huge allegations against the bishop.

“Though Bishop Franco had sexually abused me several times, I could not reveal to my Superior General or to her Councillors the full story. I only told them repeatedly that Bishop is taking many disciplinary actions through them just because I resisted to lie down with him. As they failed to understand even the seriousness of these words, I could not tell them more than this. And I had the fear that Bishop Franco may harm me with the support of my superiors. The loss of vocations from the Missionaries of Jesus during the last five years proves that the congregational leadership has no solution for the problems faced by the sisters. The leadership team of the MJ sisters have only depended on Bishop Franco for all their problems. Since I was one of the senior most in the congregation I could not speak openly to any of my sisters.Bishop Franco had always an eagle’s eye on few other MJ sisters as well. Whichever sister Bishop Franco felt attraction to, he tried to put them in his trap by force or taking advantage of their weaknesses

One of our young sisters who had a close contact with Bishop Franco was caught by the authority with specific proofs for a serious error in the place where this sister was rendering her service. Then Bishop Franco asked our superiors to send her to another state where we have more than 3 communities, to a place where only junior sisters were there. Then in the same week itself Bishop Franco made a special visit to this community and stayed there overnight. At night till 12 pm, this sister was alone in his room for ‘spiritual direction’. His unusual night stay in that community raised a serious question in all most all the MJ sisters. For me the question is why Bishop Franco had an extraordinary sympathy for this sister when he has failed to express genuine concern for the many sisters who left the congregation for lack of understanding from the authority. Even he tried his level best to free this sister from facing any disciplinary action and appointing her to a place where he could easily contact her any time. On knowing the consequences, nobody dared to ask about this publically. In this manner we can get many more examples from Jalandhar Diocese and the sisters of the diocese if the Church authority makes a truthful investigation.

We hid the above mentioned case from the investigation officers, because we know that in order to destroy this sisters’ image and close her mouth forever, Bishop Franco and his close associates may play any dirty game on this sister. Anyone daring to resist him has to face strong consequences, He has even instigated our own Superior General and Team members and few priests of the diocese to speak against me and the sisters who support me for justice. Their accusation is that all this is a game that I play for pleasing a few priests of the diocese of Jalandhar who are against Bishop Franco”, says the nun in the letter.