A perverted elderly Prelate who raped a (samanera)child monk arrested

–Children being made monks shall be banned

(Lanka-e-News- 23.June.2012, 11.55PM) The police arrested a shameless sex starved 68 year old Buddhist Prelate who had cruelly raped a 10 year old Samanera monk of the same Temple. Following an investigation based on a complaint received by the Nagoda police on the 21st that an under aged samanala monk had been brutally raped at about 22.10 in the night of 2012-06-01 in the Yatalamaththa Suramyarama Vihara , Nagoda police under which division this temple comes has arrested this rapist. The Nagoda police is conducting further investigations. Though the young boys who are inducted as samaneras are subject to sexual assault by high Prelates and is widespread in Temples , these crimes are not always reported to the police. Children below the age of 18 years being inducted as monks even with the permission of the parents ought to be completely banned . The children must be allowed to spend their formative years.. The international laws governing children’s rights shall be abided by. Many children who have been made samaneras in their young days , have after reaching maturity abandoned the robes after realizing it is against their grain. Taking into account these reasons , children being made monks in their young age before they have reached independent thinking should be banned .