In all, the company has sent off about 800 Aibos in this way, all from Kofukuji in Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo. In effect, these Aibos become organ donors – martyrs for the greater good of what is, alas, a dying breed.īefore they go to robodog nirvana, however, A-Fun gives them a hero's farewell. "With the Aibo no longer in production, owners of old or 'dead' robodogs often send them to the company, the only way it can obtain genuine parts to use in repairs," the newspaper says. Some 150,000 Aibos were sold in the seven years they were made, making the oldest of them nearly 20 years old. The Japan Times reports: "In some respects, it was a funeral like any other in Japan, with incense smoke wafting as a priest chanted a sutra, praying for the peaceful transition of the souls of the departed."Īs the newspaper explains, Sony stopped manufacturing the Aibo - which stands for Artificial Intelligence Robot - in 2006 and since then, the electronics repair company A-Fun Co. I got to know all this only in February," the husband told NDTV.Kofukuji temple chief priest Bungen Oi with Aibos displayed on an altar at the Kofukuji temple in Isumi, Chiba, last week.Īnyone who has ever owned a dog – or any pet, for that matter – can tell you how difficult that last day is.Īnd so it must have been for the owners of 114 Sony Aibo robotic dogs whose beloved pets were given a Buddhist send-off last week at a ceremony at Japan's 450-year-old Kofukuji Temple.
Even after we got married in 2006, the priest continued to sexually abuse my wife, blackmail her, saying that he would tell me everything. Even after finishing his seminary and becoming a priest, he continued the same pattern. "The main culprit, the Father, promised to marry her and continued to manipulate her. The Crime Branch of the Kerala Police had on July 2 registered a case against Father Varghese and three other priests on the basis of a statement given by the woman who belonged to the same church. She alleged that they uploaded videos on the internet and they used them to blackmail her. The 34-year-old married woman has alleged that the four priests sexually abused her by using her confidental confessional statement. They were told by the top court to first surrender before the local court by August 13.įather Abraham surrendered before a court in Thiruvalla town today and the other priest, Father George surrendered before the police in Kollam district. The priests from the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, Father Sony Varghese (Abraham Varghese) and Father Jaise K George, had approached the Supreme Court for protection from arrest after the Kerala High Court rejected their plea. Two of the four Kerala priests, accused of raping and blackmailing a woman for several years, surrendered before a local court today.