Woman reveals torture at Neendunokki convent in Kannur

Kochi: Reports on the rape of a teenage student by a priest in a church in Kannur district have opened a can of worms: a former inmate of a convent attached to the Neendunokki church where Fr Robin was working has revealed in a Facebook post the details of the inhumane torture she suffered at the hands of a nun. The post on Wednesday has gone with more than 10,000 persons liking and 7000-odd persons sharing it in hours.

Elizabeth Vattakkunnel, who hails from Wayanad, said in her post that she, a fifth standard student then, became an inmate of the convent in 1999 as had to walk a long way to the school which she as attending. “A nun named Sister Lucy used to unleash brutal attacks on us for silly reasons,” said the post. The nun used to thrash the 30-odd girls using an oiled cane in a dark room from where their cries hardly went out.

Elizabeth says Sister Lucy picked on her as she found a Rs 10-note in her bag which her father had given her to buy snacks. “She asked me to remove my dress except the undergarments and beat me up till I started bleeding on the thighs. I was then taken back to our room by two roommates as I was unable to walk.”

Elizabeth said she fell sick after the beatings and her father was called to the school as advised by a teacher. “Once we reached home, my mother found out what happened to me from the marks on my body,” she said. Her father set out to take revenge on the nun but could do nothing. “Later we got to know that she was transferred to another place,” she said in the post. Elizabeth prefaced her post saying that she held no grudge against anyone but wanted to share the bitter and cruel experience she had had.