Vietnam: pagoda abbot sentenced to six years for raping a fourteen-year-old
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abbot of a pagoda
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The defendant held religious authority as a pagoda abbot over a girl in the community he served, and that standing is what enabled him to take her away unaccompanied.
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2020-02-01 · conviction and sentence
Ninh Kiều District People's Court, Cần Thơ, Vietnam. Huỳnh Minh Toàn, religious name Thích Phước Hoàng, abbot of a pagoda in Cao Lãnh, Đồng Tháp province, was convicted of raping a person under 16 after taking a 14-year-old girl on a trip and assaulting her at a hotel in Cần Thơ. He was sentenced to six years and ordered to pay 100 million VND in compensation, and was removed from his position as abbot.
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- religious standing as abbot over a girl in his community
Cited record
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- national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report 'Sư trụ trì thừa nhận hiếp dâm bé gái 14 tuổi trong nhà nghỉ', Tiền Phong (Vietnam), 2020.
Vietnamese national newspaper reporting the abbot's conviction, sentence, compensation order, and removal from his post.
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- https://tienphong.vn/ban-tin-hinh-su-su-tru-tri-thua-nhan-hiep-dam-be-gai-14-tuoi-trong-nha-nghi-post1123926.tpo Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report. SHA-256 aa08779a9c02169959cf034bb642d7c1389231f64097be1dbe7884daed2ec961
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