A follow-up to a story posted last year (see here).
(portal-credo.ru) - The court has sentenced Moldova Riscani area Orthodox priest Valentine Tsarelunge to 1.5 years in prison on the article "reckless homicide" reports November 22 , "Komsomolskaya Pravda" .
The court found the priest guilty of what he, making July 22, 2010 in the village church baptism Mihailo a six baby drowned him.
Sam's father Valentine Tsarelunge pleaded not guilty, insisting that "the ceremony conducted by all the rules," said Attorney District Prosecutor's Office Constantin Rusu. During the trial, the priest has never apologized to the parents of the deceased boy.
The prosecution demanded the defendant to two years imprisonment with a ban on professional activities.
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I am trying to figure out how he drowned the baby. Did he hold the baby underwater? Did he put the head in angled downward? Seems odd that Orthodox priests have baptized by immersion for 2000 years, and "death by baptism" seems to almost never occur...
ReplyDeleteThe reports say he was a bit cranky with the family and didn't perform the ceremony as they expected him to. Here's a short explanation...
ReplyDeletehttp://byztex.blogspot.com/2010/07/turning-tragedy-into-wanton-hubris.html
http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2013/11/the-story-behind-infant-that-died.html
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