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How Sri Lanka's Most Powerful Buddhist Monk Was Arrested — and Released — on Child Rape Charges • Sri Lanka Brief

ANURADHAPURA, Sri Lanka — She was eleven years old, by her own account, when her mother first brought her to the private residential quarters inside one of the holiest Buddhist precincts in the world. She was fourteen when she told police what happened there. The man she named is Pallegama Hemarathana Thero, 71, the Atamasthanadhipathi — Chief Prelate and Custodian of the Eight Sacred Sites of Anuradhapura, and the senior-most administrative aut…
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srilankabrief.org broke the news on Tuesday, May 26, 2026.
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