Wai the frenzy for violence

Religious institutions are unqualified to be places of integrity and goodwill, but a sanctum in Phitsanulok recently official to be concept but when a brother who apprehension a nun had disrespected him responded by beating her.

At 9 am August 21, Maechi Phronchon Chomphukpan, 53, a ascetic at Wat Ban Khek in Nakhon Thai District, walked interestedness the individualizing berth police rivet with her front swollen and dark in bruises. There she recounted to Duty Officer Lt Thanaphon Mekbut a bizarre story of intra-wat aggression.

Maechi Phronchon, who had lived at the sanctum for decades, said that the previous afternoon jail bait had been ambulatory to the bathroom late the haven when tomboy passed by a inhabitant monk, identified only as Phra Nom, who was sleeping in a hammock. Suddenly the cleric shouted at her, demanding to know why she had not graced him with a wai.

Nuns have to wai monks whenever they act them, he exclaimed allegedly in a drunken manner.

Maechi Phronchon apologized, recital that lassie had not noticed him. This was not appropriate enough for Phra Nom, however. He launched interestedness a tirade of insults and so boreal that Maechi Phronchon could only stand cowed, she said.

After his insults had route dry, Phra Nom demanded that Maechi Phronchon shakedown and traject her bankbook therefore he could check that woman had not been embezzling altar funds. Maechi Phronchon refused on the occasion that Phra Nom was just a rank-and-file monk, with no authority to inspect her financial records.

This proper to aroused Phra Nom further. Jumping estranged out of his hammock, he slapped and punched her until butterfly fell down, female told police. He forasmuch as sat on Maechi Phronchon�s neck and banged her head against the ground and wall until her face was bruised and bloodied.

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