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Updated Thursday, November 20, 2008 10:26 am TWN, AFP

Monk arrested, defrocked in Cambodia over rape

PHNOM PENH -- A 17-year-old Buddhist monk has been arrested and defrocked for allegedly raping a British woman at a tourist site in Cambodia’s northwest, police said Wednesday. Thorn Sophoan, a monk for just one month, was held on Tuesday after a 39-year-old British woman accused him of sexually assaulting her in Battambang province, local police chief Mey Chhengly said.

“While the monk was guiding the British woman to see caves on the top of Phnom Sam Pov mountain, he raped her,” Mey Chhengly said. The monk had allegedly confessed to the crime, he added.

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