Contact Admin. Wirapol Sukphol has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for abducting and raping a year-old girl. A Thai court on Wednesday sentenced a former Buddhist monk known for his lavish lifestyle to 16 years in prison for raping a year-old girl, whom he also impregnated. Wirapol Sukphol, formerly known by his monastic name of Luang Pu Nenkham, was sentenced in August to years in prison after a court found him guilty of fraud, money laundering and computer crimes.
He will only serve 20 years on those charges because that is the maximum for someone found guilty of multiple counts of the same offence. He was seen in a YouTube video in holding wads of cash on a private jet. The same year, he was accused of having sex with an underage girl and was expelled from the monkhood.
He fled to the United States and was extradited back to Thailand last year. Wirapol's high-profile cases have highlighted a series of sex and money scandals that have rocked Thailand's Buddhist institution in recent years, resulting in calls for reforms of religious institutions.
The military government that came to power after a coup has stepped up efforts to clean up Buddhism by arresting monks involved in corruption and scrutinising temple finances.
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