SARABURI: Ever surprise why clergy discuss with non-clerics as “laypersons”? Perhaps it’s as a result of those that are not within the priesthood appear to search out it easier to get laid. But 59-year-old Phra Prapat Thammarat, Abbot of Wat Rongsaeng in Nongkhae District, apparently didn’t view his position as temple head as any reason not to bring his girlfriend back to his temple quarters for a sport of hide the sausage. In fact, Phra Prapat and his love interest, Malika “Maew” Srikulthon, a 25-year-old hairdresser, have been both getting one of the best of both worlds. Malika acquired a brand new bike and other gadgets bought by Phra Prapat utilizing temple funds. For his half, Phra Prapat received what almost each man wants, and through the use of his temple quarters as a love shack he didn’t need to pay more money for a short-time lodge. Unfortunately, such agreeable conditions seldom final lengthy. At about 1 am on May 21, a mob of angry villagers and volunteer police – figuring out full well that the younger lady was within the abbot’s quarters – surrounded his room, yelling for Phra Prapat to open the door and comply with be defrocked for his scandalous habits. The crowd was led by none aside from Phra Prapat’s own niece, 35-year-old Wandee Aekanitsri, head of Tambon Nongplamaw’s Village 2. When Value arrived to research the situation, they found the lights extinguished and the room silent. Surrounded and with no way to escape, the abbot and his girlfriend played possum. After the police identified themselves, nevertheless, Phra Prapat had no selection but to open the door. When he did, police, reporters and offended villagers surged into the room. One reporter seen the monk kick a pair of women’s footwear underneath the bed. But it was in vain, as a end result of the villagers soon discovered Maew behind a bookcase, shaking with worry and clad only in her underwear. After dressing, the pair had been taken to Wat Bua Loy, also in Nongkhae District, to see the Chief District Monk. Under questioning, Maew admitted to what everybody else already knew, however Phra Prapat, clearly a man of nice religion, continued to pr