A Pentecostal church pastor has been arrested for sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy in this southern Kerala district, PTI has reported.
The incident reportedly took place within the jurisdiction of the Kattakkada police station on Wednesday.
The 59-year-old pastor identified as Raveendranath is accused of sexually abusing the boy after luring him into a trap. The boy, who had been abandoned by his mother, was enticed by the pastor while waiting for his grandmother, who had gone to the hospital.
As per the report, Raveendranath took the boy to his house, served him cake, showed him porn pictures on the tablet and thensexually abused the boy.
The police have booked him under POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act. Subsequently, he was produced before a court which remanded him to judicial custody.
