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NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) - A Tibetan monk who was granted political asylum in the United States was jailed Wednesday on a charge alleging he raped a 14-year-old girl, who became pregnant.
Jampa Dhondup, 40, had asked a Hampshire Superior Court judge to lower his bail from $50,000, but Judge Bertha Josephson refused the request at a hearing Tuesday.
Dhondup, who lived in Greenfield, has pleaded innocent to one charge of forcible rape of a child in connection with the incident in Amherst in October 2005. He has been jailed since November.
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