{"id":8972,"date":"2020-06-19T10:40:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T10:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=8972"},"modified":"2020-06-19T10:40:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T10:40:15","slug":"buddhist-monk-sentenced-to-8-years-for-sexually-abusing-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/buddhist-monk-sentenced-to-8-years-for-sexually-abusing-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist monk sentenced to 8 years for sexually abusing child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">A Buddhist monk has been sentenced to eight years rigorous imprisonment after he was found guilty of sexually abusing a nine-year-old girl who had come to the Dhamma School.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">The Colombo High Court today sentenced the 47 year old monk who was the chief incumbent of a temple in Kolonnawa for sexually abusing the child.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">In addition the convicted monk was fined Rs. 10,000 and ordered to pay Rs. 30,000 as compensation to the victimized child.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">The child was sexually molested when she attended the Dhamma School on November 27, 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Buddhist monk has been sentenced to eight years rigorous imprisonment after he was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}