A Sri Lankan Buddhist monk has been arrested in the United States over allegations related to soliciting commercial sexual services, according to reports from U.S. media.<\/p>\n
The suspect, identified as Mahayaye Vinitha Thero<\/strong>, 32, had been serving as a Buddhist chaplain at Tufts University. He was arrested along with six other men during an undercover operation conducted by the Boston Police.<\/p>\n According to reports, the monk had been working at Tufts University since December 2024, providing spiritual guidance and support to students.<\/p>\n The arrests were made as part of \u201cOperation Red Card,\u201d<\/strong> a special undercover initiative launched by Boston Police to combat human trafficking and commercial sex activities ahead of major international sporting events scheduled to take place in the city.<\/p>\n Police allege that Mahayaye Vinitha Thero responded to an online advertisement posted by undercover officers posing as sex workers. Investigators claim that he requested various sexual services and indicated a willingness to pay between USD 125 and USD 400<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The arrest took place at the Moxy Boston Downtown Hotel<\/strong>, where officers carried out the operation and detained the suspects.<\/p>\n However, the allegations have not yet been proven in court. During his court appearance, Mahayaye Vinitha Thero denied all charges against him.<\/p>\n Authorities have stated that investigations into the case are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Sri Lankan Buddhist monk has been arrested in the United States over allegations related to soliciting commercial sexual services, according to reports from U.S. media. The suspect, identified as Mahayaye Vinitha Thero, 32, had been serving as a Buddhist chaplain at Tufts University. He was arrested along with six other men during an undercover …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2587","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\/2587","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=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2588,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions\/2588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}