'Child-abusing' Thai Abbot murdered by his victim

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'Child-Abusing' Abbot Murdered By His Victim
By Khaosod Online

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BANGKOK: -- A 17 year old monk novice has confessed to murdering the monk abbot who sexually abused him in the temple and delayed the payment he was promised for his ′service′.

The novice, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested in Sam Chai district, Kalasin province.

On 16 October, the police were alerted to investigate the death of Pra Kru Indra-Sanuwattna, the monk abbot of Wat Thaen Sila-Asna Temple in the province. The police found the abbot with a fatal head injury in front of his temple residence.

However, the murderer did not steal any belongings from the abbot, leading the police to believe the culprit was someone close to Pra Kru Indra, who had committed the crime for personal motives.

Further investigation suggested that the murderer is a monk novice who recently ran away from the temple. The arrest warrant was issued, and today the police arrested the suspect at nearby Wat Na-Doon Temple.
The police also found a blood-stained wooden staff, which is believed to have been the weapon of the crime.

The monk novice confessed to the crime, and was promptly defrocked.

The former novice told the police that he had met Pra Kru Indra earlier this year. The elderly monk then persuaded the suspect to visit to his residence, the suspect claimed, and asked to have sexual intercourse in exchange for 300 – 500 THB cash.

As their relationship developed, Pra Kru Indra started to refuse to pay the novice, according to the defrocked novice. The suspect then reportedly started to avoid the abbot.

On the night of the incident, the suspect said, the abbot contacted him because he urgently needed the boy to perform a holy tattoo for a customer. The novice rushed to the temple to find no customers but the abbot, who claimed that he had lied to the novice because he missed him, according to the suspect′s testimony

The two allegedly had sexual intercourse again until the novice asked for the money to leave. However, the abbot reportedly refused and told the novice to carry on.

Upset, the novice tried to leave the scene, but the abbot followed and threatened that the novice’s ecclesiastical I.D. was kept with him, according to the suspect. He said he became enraged and smashed the abbot on the head several times with a wooden staff before he fled the scene.

Police have pressed murder charges against the 17-year-old suspect.

Investigation conducted by the police also claimed that Pra Kru Indra had avoided associating with local parishioners as he preferred to travel to different temples in order to lure their novices back to his temple residence for sexual intercourse.

The abbot had once organised a summer novice ordination program, placing 10 boys into the novicehood, according to the police, and many of them complained to their parents that they had been sexually abused by the abbot, but no legal action was ever taken against Pra Kru Indra.

Monks are forbidden from engaging in sexual intercourse regardless of any gender according to Buddhist dogma.

Source: http://www.khaosod.co.th/en/view_newsonline.php?newsid=TVRNNE1qQXhORFUyTWc9PQ==

-- KHAOSOD English 2013-10-18

[Thai at Heart]

This is so crap on so many levels.

I feel like I need a shower after just reading it.

[LucidLucifer]

The abbot had once organised a summer novice ordination program, placing 10 boys into the novicehood, according to the police, and many of them complained to their parents that they had been sexually abused by the abbot, but no legal action was ever taken against Pra Kru Indra.

Outragious lack of action by the police........while I cannot condone murder, maybe in this case we should call it karma.

[NongKhaiKid]

Once again so many questions about all of those involved including the families of the other victims and the various authorities and once again just how many questions will be answered and how much will continue to be hushed up ?

[Bender]

There is no morality in this story, just a endless stream of vomiting.

[pgrahmm]

A very Catholic-like story......right down to the inaction and cover up + location changes.....damnable

Sorry I read this story.....that poor 17 year old kid.....

[Spalpeen]

A very Catholic-like story......right down to the inaction and cover up + location changes.....damnable

Sorry I read this story.....that poor 17 year old kid.....

Indeed. And just like the Irish Catholic cesspit you can be sure there's a lot more of this going on out of sight.

[Tatsujin]

Once again, those fine upstanding Buddhist monks show us all how to behave. Keep up the great works chaps.

[JoeThePoster]

the novice’s ecclesiastical I.D. was kept with him

Is that something even more exclusive than the Elite Card?

[Thaddeus]

I used to be shocked by news like this in Thailand.

[tominbkk]

According to Thai friends in the know, this is just the tip of the monkburg.

[Credo]

The article is confusing. Was the monk killed for abusing the boy or for not paying him?

[JoeThePoster]

Cause of death = Wood

[Marcel1]

Blegh... religions, the worst decease among mankind. Hypocryts

[UncleJ]

Plain and simple.

He killed the guy over 500 bt.

[Artisi]

What a shame the "monk" wasn't dispatched a little sooner, would have saved a lot of heart-ache for many young guys.

[laurentbkk]

One more time Monks, Priests etc .. are only humain being after all .

[Alwyn]

Fantastic!!!!

[DocN]

Woooooooooooohoooooo...wait, wait...what???

The monk had a novice program for underaged boys, some of whom he had sex with and payed 300 to 500 Baht and when he didn't pay up, the guy killed him?!

...where do I even start...???

...and why is "child- abusing" in parenthesis?

Edited October 18, 2013 by DocN

[likewise]

most of these monks are as fake as can be, hunt them down..... but no as we all now Thai police is useless to do any investigating without their snitches......

[ricardofel]

Just another scuzzy disgusting monk story....too many of them.

[anon210]

Nothing but an habitual pervert monk story in Thailand. And the most disgusting is the silence of the parents in this case. Now we know why the monks roam between temples...

[JoeThePoster]

At least 10 BIB get a much needed photo-op.

[Zodaka]

I've always thought that abuse in the Monkhood must be rampant and probably far worse than what's happened in the Catholic Church. Most of the novices are from very poor families with no 'power' and are brought up to believe in the superstition and sancturay of the temples. On the other hand, monks are potentially sex starved and many have previous criminal records.

[Jim walker]

Lazy inept police one again having to rely on some 17YO to do their work for them and the 17YO has obviously done a good and proper job of sentencing his abuser to death.

Edited October 18, 2013 by metisdead
Font, again.

[wimpey1946]

A very Catholic-like story......right down to the inaction and cover up + location changes.....damnable

Sorry I read this story.....that poor 17 year old kid.....

Make religion against the law will solve a lot of problems

[circusman]

I've always thought that abuse in the Monkhood must be rampant and probably far worse than what's happened in the Catholic Church. Most of the novices are from very poor families with no 'power' and are brought up to believe in the superstition and sancturay of the temples. On the other hand, monks are potentially sex starved and many have previous criminal records.

Previous criminal records? Many? How could you know this? Stick to the facts ok?

[transam]

The article is confusing. Was the monk killed for abusing the boy or for not paying him?

I think the latter.

[Suradit69]

One more time Monks, Priests etc .. are only humain being after all .

One would like to believe that monks and priests or others in position of authority would exhibit exemplary behavior, but to be fair, the kid was apparently OK with it all until the money stopped.

The problem isn't so much religion as the unreasonable expectation that remaining celibate somehow elevates one to a higher level of religiosity. I suppose if you can completely deny yourself any kind of sexual expression because of your faith, that's impressive but the correlation between frequency of sex and degree of faith seems a ridiculous denial of our God-given human nature and a rather sad commentary on what faith means. We want normal people to act abnormally and then seem surprised at the result.

Even people who fast for extended periods of time as a tribute to God eventually start eating again. If these people had some acceptable way of dealing with their natural sexual urges rather than pretending that they don't exist, everyone, probably including God, would be a lot happier and cases like this would be few and far between.

[Joe Mamma]

Sounds like the Catlickers back home, although they had hundreds of years to hone and protect their evil deviations.