Authorities added that the victim's mother has also been arrested for aiding and abetting the monk. Sri Lankan authorities arrested a senior Buddhist monk on Saturday for the alleged sexual abuse of an underage girl, police said, marking the highest-profile case involving clergy in the country. Pallegama Hemarathana, 71, was arrested at a private h... [1872 chars]
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