August 18,2025
RED FM News Desk
A Buddhist monk and the Vancouver temple where he serves as president are facing a lawsuit alleging he sexually and physically abused a child between 2003 and 2005.
Court documents state that the victim, now living in Coquitlam, endured cruel treatment, including being spat on, scalded with boiling water, pushed down stairs, force-fed, beaten, and forced to perform sex acts. The lawsuit names the monk, who later became president of the World Vietnamese Buddhist Order Chân Quang Temple, but who at the time had legal guardianship of the boy and was known to him as “teacher.”
The claim describes one incident in which the accused allegedly stomped on the child’s stomach, rupturing it and sending him to the hospital. The boy spent about three weeks at BC Children’s Hospital in late 2005 before being placed in foster care, after which the Vancouver Police Department began an investigation.
According to the filing, the boy protected his teacher during that investigation, claiming he had been groomed to do so. He was just six years old when the abuse is said to have begun, and the documents note that he has suffered lasting physical and emotional trauma.
The lawsuit seeks damages for loss of past and future income, future care costs, punitive damages, and other compensation.
Neither the temple, located on East 1st Avenue near Commercial Drive, nor its president has filed a response to the lawsuit.
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