Court drops charges against Sr. Mary Eliza
December 15, 2011 11:27 pm
Sister
Mary Eliza who was accused of selling babies for adoption was discharged without
presenting charges. The nun, from Mother Teresa’s Indian-based Missionaries of
Charity, was arrested last month for allegedly selling babies born from unwed
mothers.
The Missionaries of Charity says
its home in Moratuwa, south of Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, houses women who
become pregnant outside of marriage or after being raped, and gives the babies
up through legal adoption if their mothers don’t want them.
Officials
from the National Child Protection Authority and police raided the home on Nov.
23 and arrested Sister Mary Eliza, its head, after a tip-off.
Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the
head of the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka, called the allegations groundless and
vowed to boycott all state functions until the case was resolved. (AP)
