CHICAGO (IL)
Chicago Tribune
By Matthew Walberg, Chicago Tribune reporter
July 20, 2012
A woman who says she was sexually assaulted and impregnated by a Buddhist monk as a teenager more than a decade ago in the southwest suburbs agonized for years about telling her story to authorities.
Two years ago she filed a lawsuit against Camnong Boa-Ubol, but to maintain her child’s privacy, she did not want to pursue criminal charges.
But after the Tribune wrote of the woman’s lawsuit last year in a story about abuse allegations against several monks, a victims rights group persuaded her to seek criminal action against Boa-Ubol. On Thursday, Boa-Ubol, 62, who had left the Chicago area several years ago, was returned here and charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault, officials said.
The alleged crime occurred at the Wat Dhammaram temple in unincorporated Stickney Township. The woman was 15 when she became pregnant. In her lawsuit, she alleged that she was 14 when Boa-Ubol began a nearly yearlong pattern of abuse that resulted in her pregnancy.
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