NAKON SRI THAMMARAT: When villagers in Chawang District heard the abbot of a local temple shouting he was being assaulted by a thief on October 14, they naturally rushed to assist.
When police, led by Lt Samphan Wathanasong, arrived, they stumbled on a throng of more than 10 individuals fortunately beating the suspected thief and abbot assaulter.
Police put a cease to the fracas and wrested Thawatchai Chaonafai, 29, from the mob. Inside the temple was the abbot with a ripped gown and bleeding profusely from a cut on his brow.
Police planned to take Thawatchai to Somdej Phrayupharach Chawang Hospital. Thawatchai, nonetheless, mentioned that he wish to give his aspect of the story to the obligation officer first.
Thawatchai advised police that until recently he had lived fortunately together with his wife in Nakhon Pathom. In September, nonetheless, he came to Nakhon Sri Thammarat to look for work and ended up staying on the temple.
All was nicely until one night, Thawatchai claimed, the abbot came into his room and demanded to have intercourse. Being a happily married man, Thawatchai refused the abbot’s advances, he stated.
The abbot, nevertheless, was not so simply dissuaded, said Thawatchai, and drew a gun from his robe and commenced to beat him until he agreed to let the monk have his method with him.
“ Sneak peek kept me locked in a kuti (monk’s cell). He wouldn’t let me go anywhere. He additionally took my ID card and my wallet.
“I tried to explain to him that I had come [to Nakhon Sri Thammarat] to earn cash to send back to my wife and youngster, however the monk said that I should live with him and that if I let him have intercourse with me, he would give me cash,” Thawatchai stated.
“While I’ve been right here, the abbot has given me about 10,000 baht in complete, but every evening he has sexually violated me. I’ve had to attempt to take the pain. I was thinking of the way to escape however there was no method out. Whenever the abbot went out, he locked the door,” Thawatchai told police.
“On the evening of the incident,” Thawatchai continued, “the abbot came and demanded sex once more, but I refused as I couldn’t stand it any more. My bottom damage an extreme amount of.
“This made the abbot indignant and he started to beat me, refusing to listen to my pleas. This time I grabbed the fan off the table and hit the abbot on the head. The abbot screamed for assist, saying there was a thief attempting to steal temple belongings.”
Lt Samphan stated that a detailed record of Thawatchai’s complaint had been logged, but police had yet to cost anybody over the incident.
They will invite the abbot to the station to reply Thawatchai’s allegations and investigate the case completely, he added.
Somchok Bunyathikan, a Nakhon Sri Thammarat Crime Suppression Volunteer who accompanied police to the scene of Thawatchai’s beating, mentioned that as police have been tearing the villagers off their prey, the abbot came out carrying Thawatchai’s ID card. This made Somchok suspicious, he stated, as there was extra to the assault then meets the eye. If Thawatchai had been a thief, why would the abbot have his ID card?