Crab dish tips monk into abyss
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| Kongkiart Naowprakorm |
Kongkiart Naowprakorm, 51, or Phra Kongkiart Kittiwanno as he was until Buddhist officials booted him out of the monkhood last week, denies making the visitor to his temple in Nongkhun village of Prakhon Chai district pregnant.
Jiab, 26, as she is known in the media, went public about her plight after the monk refused to take responsibility for her unborn child. She claims the monk had sex with her multiple times at his temple quarters and knew about the pregnancy, but at the four-month mark he cut off contact with her which ultimately led to her having an abortion on March 25.
Jiab, from Phlapphla Chai district, said a friend had called in November asking her to take food to the monk as he was there alone at the 7 rai forest temple on public land, and does not go out on morning alms rounds.
Phra Kongkiart lived at the temple for 20 years, though it is unclear how he supported himself as few locals bother with the place or its sole occupant.
Village 10 headman Noi Sarasri said locals aren’t interested in the temple as the monk seldom leaves it and doesn’t care for them.
“They don’t even regard it as a temple,” she said, adding locals would be pleased to see the back of him as Phra Kongkiart had openly flouted monastic rules by mixing with young women and dressing in civilian attire to take meals in the village.
She also claimed he had a history of making women pregnant and that he was raising a child at kindergarten level.
Phra Kongkiart, who did not address his past when reporters last week paid him a visit following Jiab’s claims on Facebook, said Jiab had contacted him on social media asking if she could come and see him.
“I told her it was not appropriate for a woman to visit as I am a monk. For a time she went quiet but then showed up with meals,” he said.
Jiab said she visited Phra Kongkairt four or five times before they started having sex. The monk, who admitted sleeping with her, said she brought a dish of crab stew which he believes was laced with a sex stimulant. After taking a few mouthfuls he felt numb over his body and started to get an erection.
“I asked her what happened, and when I recalled a comment she had made previously, that she always gets the men she wants, I knew I had been drugged,” he said.
“I was lucky I didn’t eat the whole lot or I don’t like to think of how much control I might have lost,” adding he regretted the episode.
“I don’t know who made her pregnant but she has decided to blame me. I should never have let a woman like that dupe me,” he grumbled.
Jiab, unsurprisingly, tells a different version of events, saying that when she visited the monk he did not want to let her leave. “He grabbed my hand and tried to put it on his penis. He was the one who initiated body contact,” she said.
She also denied lacing his food with sex stimulant. “I know nothing about crab stew. I took him different types of Esan food, which he would only eat after I had left. While I was there he took just coffee,” she said.
The monk knew she was pregnant and told her he was willing to take responsibility for raising the child, but later changed his mind.
“When I reached the four-month mark, he blocked me on FB and Line, and threatened to harm me if I told anyone.”
Jiab complained to police, who, accompanied by officials from the National Office of Buddhism in Buri Ram, visited Phra Kongkiart at the temple and asked to see his monk’s ID.
The document confirmed he was a monk, ordained at a temple elsewhere in the district, but that no other temple had been willing to have him there. They took him back to the temple which ordained him to be defrocked.
Mr Kongkiart later returned to his temple in Nongkhun village, saying he wanted to attend to a long-standing health complaint before deciding on his next course in life.
“If locals want me to leave, that would be unfair as I am a Thai and can live anywhere,” he insisted.
His younger sister, Saranya, 50, said Kongkiart is reaping the consequences of his past misdeeds. She did not elaborate.
Ms Noi, the headman, welcomed the decision to boot him from the monkhood, as letting him stay would tarnish Buddhism.
He didn’t see that coming
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| Piyawat Permyingyong |
Anti-drugs police and officers from Ban Bueng station last week nabbed self-proclaimed spiritual medium, Piyawat Permyingyong, 43, at his home along with a young woman helper known as Ploy.
Earlier, he lured “A”, 22, to pick him up at home and take him to a hotel where he persuaded her to take crystal methamphetamine and then took advantage of her drugged state to perform indecent acts, police said.
A’s elder sister, “B”, 32, alerted police to the incident after A managed to send her location coordinates via the Line app on her smart watch when she started feeling the effects of the drug.
Mr Piyawat contacted A early on March 25 and told her to pick him up at 4am. He said the spirit of King Taksin had told him she must take part in a ceremony to expunge ill deeds of the past. This would help improve her life, he told her.
The sisters knew Mr Piyawat through his services as a medium. Elder sister B said a friend at work had recommended him and she took her husband and A to see him a couple of times. He charged 3,000 baht on the first visit and 7,000 baht on the second.
My Piyawat had called B earlier the same evening inviting her to take part in the ceremony but she declined, as she was tied up with work and wanted to consult her husband, who had entered the monkhood.
Unknown to her, Mr Piyawat later contacted her younger sister and put the proposal to her. A went to see him alone without telling anyone where she was going, she said later.
A said she picked him up as arranged, with Ploy, his woman friend, accompanying them in the vehicle.
First he stopped at someone’s place where she suspects he bought the drugs. As he was being nabbed by police later that evening, Mr Piyawat insisted A had taken him to buy the drugs.
Police had to prise open his door to gain access after he and Ploy refused to let them in. Police video showed officers subduing a bare-chested Mr Piyawat, who initially denied taking drugs, only to change his story. A urine test found both he and Ploy had been taking ice.
At the hotel earlier, he insisted A drink “holy water” and snort the drugs or the ceremony expunging her of bad luck would not take place. A said she agreed because she saw Ploy was present, and thought that as another woman Ploy would stick up for her if Mr Piyawat tried to inflict any harm.
Ploy did not raise a murmur as Mr Piyawat undressed her and assaulted her, she said.
After A took the drugs she felt dizzy but was able to keep her senses long enough to send her location details to her elder sister. B alerted rescue workers, who turned up at the hotel.
Mr Piyawat, aware he was in trouble, quickly bundled A into her vehicle and drove her and Ploy back to his home.
He left her in the vehicle alone while he and Ploy took cover inside, where police were to arrest them about 11pm. A said she was able to drive to her place of work and contact her sister.
A said she still feels shocked about her ordeal. She had suffered bruising to her vagina and chest, she said.
A neighbour, “Chart”, said Mr Piyawat did not open his home to read people’s fortunes as such, though a wide variety of people turned up to see him.
His wife had been to have her fortune read, and he charged 159 baht. He told her she would run into some good luck, and later she won fourth prize in the lottery.
Reporters also spoke to Mr Piyawat’s wife, “Muay”, who said she had arranged a lawyer for him.
“A was the one who came to pick him up; normally he does not go anywhere with customers but performs ceremonies at home,” she said.
“I knew they were going off to pay their respects to a spiritual teacher but didn’t know where,” she added.
As for Mr Piyawat’s fees, they can vary depending on how devoted his followers are, and whether he needs paraphernalia such as offerings for the spirits.
Under the law, Mr Piyawat must spend 45 days in drug detox first. Police have charged him initially with taking drugs.
B, meanwhile, is warning her sister not to trust people so easily. “I still don’t know why she went off alone that night. As for the medium, he should stop duping people for sex or next time it will end the same way,” she said.
A moment’s carelessness
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| A shotgun dropped at the scene. |
A father in Chon Buri has been charged with having a shotgun in his possession without permission after his son shot a seven-year-old boy dead in an accident.
Wassan Kulprakob, 29, of Bang Lamung, who was charged after the tragedy unfolded at his home, said he doesn’t know how his son, Pun Pun, 10, retrieved the loaded gun, which was in a storage room on a top shelf. He kept the weapon for his own protection, he said.
Pun Pun and a classmate from school, Supakorn “Ton Kla” Klaihong, were playing with guns on March 27 when the accident occured.
The victim was found holding a toy gun after he collapsed; the weapon which Pun Pun was playing with was real but he assumed it was unloaded, he said.
He shot Ton Kla in the temple. The boy was in a critical condition when taken to Bang Lamung hospital.
His father arrived as doctors were applying a heart defibrillator. While they succeeded initially in raising a pulse, he died later from his injuries. The bullet had lodged in his brain after severing a nerve, the doctors said.
Pol Col Chitdecha Songhong, Bang Lamung station chief, said the weapon was a Thai-modified, unlicensed, long barrelled gun.
Thanakrit Klaihong, 50, father of victim Ton Kla, said the boys often play together at Pun Pun’s place. His wife took Ton Kla there that day at 1pm. The older boy, he said, pulled down gun and shot his son, who collapsed holding a fake gun.
“I don’t blame the boy, but I do fault the father for keeping it loaded and in a place accessible to kids. My son was bright and was popular at school. He was interested in cars, not guns,” he said in tears.
“As for the legal case, I will leave it in the hands of police.” Pun Pun’s father had given him an initial 50,000 baht to defray funeral costs.
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