Sri Lanka's top monk suspended over alleged child sex abuse
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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's Buddhist hierarchy suspended on Saturday (May 30) a senior monk accused of sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl, in a high-profile case that has shocked the religiously conservative nation. In a rare disciplinary move, 71-year-old Pallegama Hemarathana was stripped of his responsibilities as the chief custodian of a highly venerated ficus grown from a sapling of a tree believed to have sheltered the Buddha. "The Council of Monks of the Malwatte Chapter decided today to
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