A Buddhist abbot who was caught naked on camera kissing a married woman left the monkhood on Wednesday, bringing a scandalous end to his 38 years in the clergy.
The abbot of Wat Pa Moke in Kapong district, Phra Kru Boonyapinan, left the monastery in a car arranged by a group of his disciples and headed to an unknown location.
The disgraced former monk appeared naked in the video clip, petting and kissing a naked middle-aged woman in the living room of a house. The couple were later shown walking into another room of the house.
The woman in the clip was reportedly married and the secretly filmed location was said to be her house in Phuket.
Reports said the woman’s husband’s relatives hid a video camera in the living room to catch her cheating with the monk, the Bangkok Post reported.
