lined up young children, exposed their bare bottoms and whacked them “indiscriminately” and with “maliciousness” (1970)
made child eat raisins until child vomited
punched child’s arm daily for a year, leaving black and blue bruises on arm (1975)
starved children for the day if he found them sleeping
whacked children on the head with a gong stick, leading to bumps on the head
visit gurukula, grab children out of bed, push them, yell at them
beat children if they were not dancing in kirtan
regularly hit children, one witness said, “It was about three times as strong as any other maniac would ever hit a kid.” and another witness said “He would smack harder than anyone else. After a few of his smacks my ears would ring, I’d see stars, and would be so disoriented that I could barely stand up. Needless to say, we were all crying when we left…”
regularly lifted one girl by her hair
brought boys to his room to hit them
made boy masturbate him on 5 different occasions (late 1970s/early 1980s)
BHAVANANDA'S ABUSE NOT MENTIONED IN HIS CPO DECISION:
1. Dhira Govinda was the first ISKCON Child Protection Office Director and he said: “Starting in 1998, the Child Protection Office received lots of comments and allegations, regarding Bhavananda. All sorts of very slimy, sleazy accusations . . . including raping boys . . . my subjective impression in regards to Bhavananda is that there is a whole lot more, that didn’t get into the Official Decision. And again, after some span of time, based on the testimonies and accusations we received, we processed the case.”
2. Around 1984, Bhavananda removed M das at the age of 12 or 13 from the New Govardhana gurukula in Australia. He brought M das traveling with him and sexually abused him (sex trafficking).
Bhavananda brought M das to the rural ISKCON farm community called New Gaudadesh, where M das burnt down a house. The then-temple president was Krodhesvara, who said, “[Kadamba Kanana das] as he was known at the time, told me he (Kadamba Kanana) held the boy down on the floor with his knee on the boys neck and threatened to kill him if he didn’t confess.” The police took M das away for questioning. Days later a detective said the boy had admitted to being responsible for the fire and that he was being molested by Bhavananda.
Acyuta recalled that “Bhav was bitterly angry, spoke quite viciously about [M das]. He was adamant the boy should be prosecuted.”
The temple president from New Gaudadesh gave testimony in court against M das, and M das was sentenced to prison.
3. Bhaktavatsya said when she visited her son at the Vrindavan gurukula, he had a “scabbed over 3 inch cut on his neck” from Bhavananda ordering the teachers to scrub the boys’ necks until they bled. (late 1970s/early 1980s)
4. Vimuktasanga said, “I was in Mayapura with a group from Europe in 1975. We all found out straight away that [Bhavananda] had recently been caught Inflagrante Delicto, doing it with boys in the goshalla.”
5. Sattvic said he was with Pippalai in Mayapur when Pippalai witnessed Bhavananda sexually abusing a boy. Sattvic said, “The next day a group of sannyasi headed by Tamal came to the Goshala and heavies out poor Pippalai. He was practically forced to leave Mayapur. Next thing I know is that Srila Prabhupada asked Bhavananda to go on the boat program and follow the caturmasya. That was it.”
Rukma said, “I was in Vrndaban in 1976 when Pipalai Prabhu arrived there in a very sad state.He said he had to run away from mayapura with no Laxmi,because he had caught sc Bhavananada abusing a very young Indian boy in the Goshalla.Pipali believed that after that terrible discovery then the temple authorities wanted to cover it up by killing him and therefore he was very afraid for his life.He stayed with me in my room since we were good friends from New York Henry Street temple.”
6. One of the women who worked with the students of the India gurukulas said she “found 20 children with syphilis in their mouth. Bhavananda would prey on children.”
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BHAVANANDA’S CHILD ABUSE
ABUSE FROM CPO REPORT:
lined up young children, exposed their bare bottoms and whacked them “indiscriminately” and with “maliciousness” (1970)
made child eat raisins until child vomited
punched child’s arm daily for a year, leaving black and blue bruises on arm (1975)
starved children for the day if he found them sleeping
whacked children on the head with a gong stick, leading to bumps on the head
visit gurukula, grab children out of bed, push them, yell at them
beat children if they were not dancing in kirtan
regularly hit children, one witness said, “It was about three times as strong as any other maniac would ever hit a kid.” and another witness said “He would smack harder than anyone else. After a few of his smacks my ears would ring, I’d see stars, and would be so disoriented that I could barely stand up. Needless to say, we were all crying when we left…”
regularly lifted one girl by her hair
brought boys to his room to hit them
made boy masturbate him on 5 different occasions (late 1970s/early 1980s)
BHAVANANDA'S ABUSE NOT MENTIONED IN HIS CPO DECISION:
1. Dhira Govinda was the first ISKCON Child Protection Office Director and he said: “Starting in 1998, the Child Protection Office received lots of comments and allegations, regarding Bhavananda. All sorts of very slimy, sleazy accusations . . . including raping boys . . . my subjective impression in regards to Bhavananda is that there is a whole lot more, that didn’t get into the Official Decision. And again, after some span of time, based on the testimonies and accusations we received, we processed the case.”
2. Around 1984, Bhavananda removed M das at the age of 12 or 13 from the New Govardhana gurukula in Australia. He brought M das traveling with him and sexually abused him (sex trafficking).
Bhavananda brought M das to the rural ISKCON farm community called New Gaudadesh, where M das burnt down a house. The then-temple president was Krodhesvara, who said, “[Kadamba Kanana das] as he was known at the time, told me he (Kadamba Kanana) held the boy down on the floor with his knee on the boys neck and threatened to kill him if he didn’t confess.” The police took M das away for questioning. Days later a detective said the boy had admitted to being responsible for the fire and that he was being molested by Bhavananda.
Acyuta recalled that “Bhav was bitterly angry, spoke quite viciously about [M das]. He was adamant the boy should be prosecuted.”
The temple president from New Gaudadesh gave testimony in court against M das, and M das was sentenced to prison.
3. Bhaktavatsya said when she visited her son at the Vrindavan gurukula, he had a “scabbed over 3 inch cut on his neck” from Bhavananda ordering the teachers to scrub the boys’ necks until they bled. (late 1970s/early 1980s)
4. Vimuktasanga said, “I was in Mayapura with a group from Europe in 1975. We all found out straight away that [Bhavananda] had recently been caught Inflagrante Delicto, doing it with boys in the goshalla.”
5. Sattvic said he was with Pippalai in Mayapur when Pippalai witnessed Bhavananda sexually abusing a boy. Sattvic said, “The next day a group of sannyasi headed by Tamal came to the Goshala and heavies out poor Pippalai. He was practically forced to leave Mayapur. Next thing I know is that Srila Prabhupada asked Bhavananda to go on the boat program and follow the caturmasya. That was it.”
Rukma said, “I was in Vrndaban in 1976 when Pipalai Prabhu arrived there in a very sad state.He said he had to run away from mayapura with no Laxmi,because he had caught sc Bhavananada abusing a very young Indian boy in the Goshalla.Pipali believed that after that terrible discovery then the temple authorities wanted to cover it up by killing him and therefore he was very afraid for his life.He stayed with me in my room since we were good friends from New York Henry Street temple.”
6. One of the women who worked with the students of the India gurukulas said she “found 20 children with syphilis in their mouth. Bhavananda would prey on children.”