<p>A special POCSO court in Mumbai on Wednesday convicted a Catholic priest and sentenced him to life imprisonment for raping a 13-year-old boy in 2015.</p>
<p>The teenaged boy was sodomized by Father Johnson Lawrence in a church.&nbsp;The parents of the victim registered a complaint and the priest was arrested in December 2015 and he is in jail since then.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, Special POCSO court Judge Seema Jadhav pronounced judgment and found the accused guilty under sections 6 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault) and 12 (sexual harassment) of the POCSO Act.</p>
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The teenaged boy was sodomized by Father Johnson Lawrence in a church. The parents of the victim registered a complaint and the priest was arrested in December 2015 and he is in jail since then

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