Rev Jonathan Robinson, 75, was sentenced by a court in India earlier this month after a seven-year police investigation.
He was released on bail pending a possible appeal but according to The Daily Mail, it emerged on Friday that he had failed to report to a police station on Tuesday and is now believed to have left India.
The father of three is understood to have boarded an Etihad flight this week from Chennai to London but there have been no reports that he returned to his Somerset home.
In the High Court in Chennai, Mr Justice N Kirubakaran said: “This court is sure that additional punishment of castration of child rapists would fetch magical results in preventing and containing child abuses.”
But he acknowledged that there would be a “hue and cry” from human rights activists if the extreme punishment was confirmed.
The assault is alleged to have happened when the pair was on an “educational” trip to the Indian capital, Delhi, involving a children’s home and charity.
The youngster had been taken on the trip, which was financed by the Grail Trust, where Robinson was a director at the time.
While Robinson – who is an acquaintance of the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams – initially denied the sex attacks took place, under pressure, he eventually flew to India and handed himself into the authorities in November 2015 after four years on Interpol’s wanted…
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