{"id":2125,"date":"2026-06-03T07:38:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T07:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2026-06-03T07:38:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T07:38:52","slug":"41-year-old-buddhist-monk-arrested-over-alleged-abuse-of-14-year-old-novice-monk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/06\/03\/41-year-old-buddhist-monk-arrested-over-alleged-abuse-of-14-year-old-novice-monk\/","title":{"rendered":"41-Year-Old Buddhist Monk Arrested Over Alleged Abuse of 14-Year-Old Novice Monk"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<h1>41-Year-Old Buddhist Monk Arrested Over Alleged Abuse of 14-Year-Old Novice Monk<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Ampara:<\/strong> A 41-year-old Buddhist monk has been arrested by Central Camp Police over allegations of repeatedly sexually abusing a 14-year-old novice monk in the Ampara District.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the incident took place on Tuesday (2) evening at a temple located in the Suganda Gama area within the Central Camp Police Division.<\/p>\n<p>The case came to light after villagers raised concerns over the disappearance of three out of five novice monks residing at the temple, which led to rising tensions and preparations for a protest outside the temple premises.<\/p>\n<p>Police stated that the two remaining novice monks were taken to provide statements regarding the incident. During this process, the suspect fled the location and escaped to the Deegavapi area.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, the suspect surrendered to Central Camp Police from the Deegavapi area with the assistance of another monk and was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>The 14-year-old victim has been admitted to the Ampara District General Hospital and referred for a medical examination by the Judicial Medical Officer.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is expected to be produced before the Ampara Magistrate\u2019s Court, police confirmed.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em>Reported from Ampara | Police updates pending further investigation<\/em><\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>41-Year-Old Buddhist Monk Arrested Over Alleged Abuse of 14-Year-Old Novice Monk Ampara: A 41-year-old Buddhist monk has been arrested by Central Camp Police over allegations of repeatedly sexually abusing a 14-year-old novice monk in the Ampara District. According to police, the incident took place on Tuesday (2) evening at a temple located in the Suganda &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2127,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions\/2127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}