{"id":271825,"date":"2016-03-23T12:41:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T08:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=271825"},"modified":"2016-03-23T12:42:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T08:42:00","slug":"recently-deceased-armenian-archbishop-was-awaiting-trial-on-child-abuse-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/03\/23\/recently-deceased-armenian-archbishop-was-awaiting-trial-on-child-abuse-charges.html","title":{"rendered":"Recently Deceased Armenian Archbishop Was Awaiting Trial on Child Abuse Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tPrior to his death on March 16 at the age of 81, Archbishop Davit Sahakyan of the Armenian Diocese of France was awaiting trial on sexual child abuse charges, Armenian <em>Haykakan Zhamanak<\/em> daily reports, citing the&nbsp;French <em>Le Progr&eacute;s<\/em> news agency.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSexual assault and rape allegations against the Archbishop came in 2013 from a man of Lebanese origin named Hrayr. He claimed that in 1990, at the age of 13, he was forced to perform oral sex on Sahakyan, in addition to being subjected to other forms of sexual violence, at an Armenian monastery in Jerusalem. In 1990, Sahakyan was the Grand Sacristan of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;Hrayr has also made allegations against two other high-ranking clerics from the Armenian monastery in Jerusalem, claiming that he had been sexually assaulted by them up until turning 19,&rdquo; the paper writes.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHrayr has also made allegations against two other high-ranking clerics from the Armenian monastery in Jerusalem, claiming that he had been sexually assaulted by them up until turning 19,\u201d the paper writes&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":271814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64291,52316,18452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}