The Phnom Penh Post
PREY Veng prison officials have released on bail a chief monk accused of raping the wife of a business tycoon, after thousands of Svay Anthor district villagers gathered outside the prison to protest his detention.
Bun Sa Em, the chief monk at Prey Chraing pagoda, which is located in Svay Anthor, said on Thursday that provincial court officials had summoned him for questioning on May 5 in connection with the alleged assault, at which point he was charged with rape and arrested.
Both he and several of the villagers who protested said the complaint had been brought by a Phnom Penh-based tycoon who had grown jealous of the monk’s success at the pagoda.
“This chief of the monk is a really good monk, and he is good at constructing the pagoda and helping the villagers’ children. All of the villagers here don’t believe that he did what they said,” villager Lim Cham Nan said.
“The real reason that one family accused him of rape is because they are jealous of him,” he added.
Bun Sa Em, the chief monk at Prey Chraing pagoda, which is located in Svay Anthor, said on Thursday that provincial court officials had summoned him for questioning on May 5 in connection with the alleged assault, at which point he was charged with rape and arrested.
Both he and several of the villagers who protested said the complaint had been brought by a Phnom Penh-based tycoon who had grown jealous of the monk’s success at the pagoda.
“This chief of the monk is a really good monk, and he is good at constructing the pagoda and helping the villagers’ children. All of the villagers here don’t believe that he did what they said,” villager Lim Cham Nan said.
“The real reason that one family accused him of rape is because they are jealous of him,” he added.
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