Diabolical ISKCON SABHA?

JJ: I keep finding more examples of ex-children who were abused, and their parents are sometimes big devotees or leaders, or at least they are Srila Prabhupada direct disciples who should have known better. It looks like almost none of them ever reported the abuses to the authorities, or alerted other parents, etc. They know there is a molesting problem spreading all over, they might even know their OWN kids were molested, or they know of other kids who were molested, but they go on supporting the leaders ... as if nothing is wrong.

It just seems like members of the big leadership GBC / ISKCON SABHA groups and other big important leaders ... or senior people ... in a number of cases also had their OWN children suffer abuses, and yet ... instead of demanding that the leaders responsible for the abuse program be removed, they are still promoting the same leaders of the whole program, like Radhanath, Hrdayananda, Jayapataka, or even  abusers like Lokanath.

I find that baffling. They did not say anything at the time of the abuse, and they never said anything up to now. It looks like a conspiracy of silence. Worse, some of the children of these leaders committed suicide, or they died prematurely from related trauma. Or they just ended up hating Krishna, because they feel like devotee parents are the worst parents anywhere. And no one notices ... this is a problem? And if we bring it up ... we get the standard vulture death glares.  

GSD: I also still don't understand ... how can ISKCON leaders whose children were abused be so unconcerned about child protection.

PADA: Yep, a number of leaders had their own children abused, sometimes all of their children were abused. Yet! Hardly none of that was ever reported to the authorities, or reported to other parents so they could be on guard. Meanwhile, these "senior people" were oftentimes banning me, blocking me, removing me from their forums, having their gang members threatening violence to the little teeny woman who was running my internet provider in 1996 (as happened), if not sending their gangsters to chase me, and generally doing everything possible in stopping me from protesting, which would have saved other kids from getting sucked into their process. 

Being unconcerned would have been a huge blessing, they were often actively and vociferously opposing. Unconcerned is neutral, opposing is actively defending. 

MD: People should contact the SABHA group to complain about Lokanath. This is Sabha contact page. Members of this group could write them to express our concerns.

https://www.iskconsabha.com/contact

And these are the members. If you know any of them personally you may write them too.

https://www.iskconsabha.com/team

BW: I only know two of the SABHA members personally though obviously I’ve seen a few more over the years growing up in the movement. Rukmini DD who’s child Gauravani was abused in Gurukula, and Nrsimhananda Das who’s step son took his own life after Gurukula. I couldn’t fathom them not taking a hard stance against a rubber stamp of the GBC’s decision in favor of dismissal.

PADA: Nrsinghananda was one of the people who vigorously, vehemently, and almost violently opposed me all along -- when I was bringing up these issues, such as the molesting issue. OK lets face it, he hated the people who exposed the molesting, and he has subsequently never apologized or even acknowledged the issue to me. 

He is good friends with guys like -- the ISKCON lawyer -- who defended the regime, and his lawyer friend's daughter died of a drug overdose, after living a life of suffering -- complaining for one thing -- that her dad was making it impossible for her to make friends with her peers because her dad defends the molester regime. 

I hate to say this is a sort of club, or conspiracy, but that is what it looks like -- as some victims told me they think it is some sort of diabolical secret society. 

Another big devotee from New Vrndavan had a son. And the son told his dad he felt like he had no place to live in his own religion, and he felt there was no use in living anymore. The dad said, "Fine, if you want to be gone from here, take one of my guns." And the kid took the gun and blew his brains out under a bridge near San Francisco. That "big devotee" was always calling me names and he was upset with my expose of the regime. He was one of the "enforcers," and he just never understood the problems he was causing for others, even his own kids.

There are people who tell me this is a diabolocal Satanic child sacrifice cult, ok how did they get that idea? 

ys pd

******** Dasi: Feeling extraordinarily grateful to get to know ****** devi, who is so beautifully aligned with the stated purposes of our devotee Community. As a professional woman in the teaching field, she understands the necessity of Zero Tolerance towards sex offenders. 

It's such a relief to be in the company of such a down to Earth, caring and warm personality. Especially after all the madness experienced in other much larger bhakti organisations where unrepentant child molesters give classes, lead kirtans and are even promoted as bonafide "good as God" gurus and acaryas.

PADA: I remember when one of these SABHA people saw me at a temple many years ago and he put his face about three inches from mine and he said to me, "You are not one of those trouble makers are you"? Maximum intimidation. Acting like he was physically threatening violence. 

Of course, he already knew who I am. In other words, anyone who has objected to the child molesting project and other similar problems is "making trouble" self-evidently. Then, how did you guess, same guy complained after we helped the child molesting lawsuit. "Why didn't he take it to the leaders before going public"? Ummm, because when you confronted me -- you showed me -- I either go public, or face severe intimidation -- or worse. 

Did If forget to mention they blocked my e-mails, and I got a computer form message back "your messages are not available on our server." Hee hee, so don't be a trouble maker, and don't complain about the abuse of the citizens, then they are all shocked and surprised when they get sued? 

The SABHA folks have never apologized to me either, or even bothered to communicate in any way, shape or form, which means we have been correct all along, they are not interested in our concerns. I get hundreds of letters from unsatisfied customers to my blog all the time, and I post a lot of them on my blog every year, year after year, and none of the SABHA folks ever asks me about any of this. ys pd