UNITED STATES
College Times
By Carlos Sadovi, Chicago Tribune
Published: Tuesday, May 15, 2012
CHICAGO — A former Buddhist priest from Stickney Township, Ill., was arrested in Alaska after officials issued an arrest warrant charging the man with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl, Cook County Sheriff’s officials said Tuesday.
Camnong Bual Ubol, 61, had previously lived and worked at Wat Dhammaram Temple in the west suburb, according to a press release issued by Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart.
In October, representatives from the Survivors Network for those Abused by Priests (SNAP) contacted sheriff’s police officers to investigate claims that Ubol had fathered a child with the girl while he worked and lived at the temple, Dart said.
After the allegations surfaced, police launched an investigation that determined that, based on a 2010 paternity test, he had fathered the child with the teen. But the investigation results had not been turned over to authorities at the time, officials said, and when police were contacted, they could not locate Ubol, whose whereabouts were unknown, police said.
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