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Byline: Brian Reade MANY of us enjoyed that defrocked priest Neil Horan (below) tragically riverdancing his way through to the next round of Britain's Got Talent on Saturday.
A 17-year-old Buddhist monk has been arrested and defrocked for allegedly raping a British woman at a tourist site in Cambodia's northwest, police said Wednesday.
When it was over, The New Light of Myanmar, a government-run English-language newspaper, said, "monks had been defrocked during interrogation," so that they could be questioned as laypeople, then ordained and sent "back to their monasteries.
 
 
 
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