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[VY] For your information...

 

Some more info from the San Francisco Chronicle which clarifies the

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/04/30/sta

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Krishna movement tries to locate possible abuse victims

 

 

Wednesday, April 30, 2003

 

 

 

 

(04-30) 02:05 PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) --

 

Six Hare Krishna temples in California, along with several other Krishna

organizations here and in West Virginia, will place legal notices in

major

newspapers and magazines in hopes of identifying children who may have

been

sexually abused or mistreated at boarding schools during the 1970s and

1980s.

 

The alleged abuse is detailed in a lawsuit that prompted the Krishna

movement, which is known officially as the International Society of

Krishna

Consciousness, to file for bankruptcy last year. The more than 90

alleged

victims claim they were raped or physically abused while living in

Krishna

boarding schools, known as ashram-based gurukulas. In the United States,

schools were in Los Angeles and Three Rivers, Calif., Moundsville, W.

Va.,

and Dallas. Other boarding schools were in India.

 

On Wednesday, the Krishna temples will place legal notices in various

publications and even on Web sites as part of the bankruptcy process.

Krishna leaders urge victims to make claims if they want to be

compensated

under a proposed bankruptcy reorganization plan.

 

The suit was filed in 2000 in Texas against the Los Angeles, Moundsville

and

Dallas schools.

 

Victims were subjected to "the most unthinkable abuse and maltreatment

of

little children which we have seen. It includes rape, sexual abuse,

physical

torture and emotional terror of children as young as 3 years of age,"

Wendell Turley, the Texas plaintiffs' lawyer who is handling the suit,

said

when it was filed.

 

The Krishna society said it put anti-abuse safeguards beginning in 1990,

including mandatory training in abuse prevention and the reporting of

allegations of abuse to government authorities.

 

A Los Angeles attorney for the Krishna movement, David Liberman, said

the

Krishna society hopes to settle as many cases as possible under the

proposed

bankruptcy proceedings, including cases of those who have not yet filed

suit. He said the reorganization plan will be submitted to federal

bankruptcy courts in California and West Virginia in June.

 

The Krishna movement reports about 75,000 members in the United States

and

claims 10,000 temple devotees, who live at Krishna temples, and 250,000

congregational devotees worldwide.

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