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Krishna-ISKCON-Kult:
Prozess über sexuellen Missbrauch durch Lehrer
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Zwischen 1972 und 1990 haben Lehrer an Krishna-Privatschulen Schüler
sexuell missbraucht. Diese Vorwürfe waren seit 1989 bekannt.
200 haben 40 ehemalige Schüler eine 400-Millionen-Dollar eingereicht.
die klage richtete sich gegen diverse ISKCON-Organisationen und eine führungsleute.
Der Krishna-Kult hat daraushin konkurs angemeldet.
Vorwürfe des sexuellen Missbrauchs seit 1989 bekannt
Schon 1989 hat die Elterninitiative Leverkusen über Vorwürfe
des sexuellen Mißbrauchs von Kindern und Frauen berichtet (EL 5/89).
Über 10 Jahre später bestätigte ISKCON diese Vorwürfe.
Man tat so, als sei dies erst durch eine wissenschaftliche Untersuchung
entdeckt worden. Manche deuteten die Veröffentlichung des Krishna-Kultes
als Zeichen für Wandel.
Dazu kritische Anmerkungen in Krishnas
an den runden Tisch?
Eltern hatten ihre Kinder den Schulen der Krishna-Organisation anvertraut. Viele Kinder sind dort sexuell mißbraucht worden. Ca. 20 Prozent seien in irgendeiner Weise mißbraucht worden, in einer Schule sogar ca. 75 Prozent aller Schüler/innen, berichtet der EZW-Materialdienst 11/98. Tatsächlich gab es sexuellen Missbrauch in Krishna-Schulen schon seit Anfang der siebziger Jahre.
Unserer Meinung nach hat die Krishna-Organisation versucht, den Skndal so lange wie möglich zu vertuschen. Erst als für jedermann erkennbar war, daß dies nicht mehr möglich war, hat man eine Öffentlichkeits-Offensive eingeleitet. Zunächst mit einer angeblichen wissenschaftlichen Arbeit. Dann wurden Beschlüsse gefasst und angebliche Hilfseinrichtungen gegründet. Die Presse wurde weltweit mit Berichten über den angeblichen Wandel versorgt. Dies hatte durchaus Wirkung, vgl. für Deutschland
Die 400-Millionen-Dollar-Klage
Im Juni 2000 haben Geschädigte eine 400 Millionen-Dollar-Klage
erhoben.
Es stellte sich heraus, daß der Missbrauch bereits 1972 begann.
Kern der Klage ist die Behauptung, daß die Krishna-Verantwortlichen
davon gewußt haben.
Mit den Suchworten ISKCON CHILD ABUSE LAWSUIT lassen sich im Internet zahlreiche Quellen finden.
Die Klage in den USA gegen die Krishna-Organisation wegen sexuellem Mißbrauch von Schülern der Krishna-Schulen ist im Internet abrufbar unter:
| Religion News Service in Washington Post, March 6, 2004
Hare Krishnas in Court The Hare Krishna movement has filed a reorganization plan in bankruptcy court that its leaders hope will allow it to compensate more than 500 people who have made claims of sexual, physical or emotional abuse. David Liberman, an attorney for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, said 540 people worldwide have made claims against the organization. About 90 claimants, he said, are involved in a $400 million child abuse lawsuit against the Krishna movement that prompted the organization to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2002. The lawsuit alleged that students attending Krishna boarding schools were abused in the 1970s and 1980s. Eleven temples and organizations filed the reorganization plan in a Texas court last week. The plan calls for providing compensation of as much as $15 million to creditors of the society, the North American expression of the ancient Vaishnava tradition, a monotheistic faith within Hindu culture. Most creditors are former students of the movement. Liberman said that figure could be reached if the organization successfully raises money from worldwide contributions and receives potential insurance proceeds. |
Schutz durch Konkursgesetz angemeldet
Nach verschiedenen Meldungen Anfang Februar 2002 wollen Krishna-Organisationen wegen der 400-Milionen-Dollar-Klage vorsorglich den Schutz des Konkursgesetzes anmelden.
ISKCON-Vertreter teilten in einer Mitteilung vom 6.2.2002 (unten) zur Begründung mit (unten), mit der Klage würde weit mehr gefordert, als alle Krishna-Tempel in Nordamerika wert seien. Der Prozess drohe, eine ganze Religion lahmzulegen.
Allein schon der Antrag ist ein Skandal.
Offenbar will man die Kläger zermürben. Ihnen soll deutlich
gemacht wrerden, daß sie selbst dann die Klagesumme nicht erhalten
würden, wenn sie den Prozess gewinnen. Eine Klägerin ist bereits
aus dem Prozess ausgestiegen, dazu unten.
Mit Hilfe des eingesparten Geldes will die Krishna-Organisation sich
reorganisieren und angeblich die Entschädigung der Opfer und den Schutz
der Krishna-Kinder finanzieren. Wie das bisher praktiziert wurde, läßt
sich in einem Bericht über die Aktivitäten der Gesellschaft zum
Schutz der Krishna-Kinder nachlesen unter http://www.chakra.org/2002/02/08/child.protection.report/index.htm
| Aus: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_514838.html
Hare Krishna congregations named in a lawsuit alleging sexual and emotional abuse of boarding school students will file for bankruptcy to avoid being sued. A spokesman for the Hindu sect said about a dozen congregations will start filing for bankruptcy reorganisation next week in several states. The group hopes that if their plan is approved by federal bankruptcy judges, the $400 million (£280 million) lawsuit filed in Dallas by former boarding school students will be dismissed. Anuttama Dasa, a Maryland-based spokesman for the International Society of Krishna Consciousness, or ISKCON, said: "We don't believe that innocent members and congregations should be held accountable for the deviant behaviour of individual acts committed 20 or 30 years ago." ISKCON also plans to set up a fund to compensate children who may have been victimised in Hare Krishna schools during the 1970s and 1980s. The Texas lawsuit alleges young children at Krishna schools in India and the United States were terrorised by their instructors. There are 94 plaintiffs in the lawsuit, according to the office of Windle Turley, the Dallas attorney who filed the lawsuit. They allege that young girls were given as brides to older men who donated to the religious community. Children were also allegedly deprived of medical care, scrubbed with steel wool until their skin bled, and prevented from leaving the schools. Mr Turley says the abuse started in 1972 at ISKCON's first school in Dallas, and continued in six other US schools and two in India. He says ISKCON knew that sex offenders were working in their schools. ISKCON formed a "Child Protection Office" in 1998 to investigate allegations of abuse and some members have been removed from the Krishna community as a result of the probes, Mr Dasa said. Story filed: 01:21 Thursday 7th February 2002 |
400-Millionen-Dollar-Klage: Ein
Sieg für die Religionsfreiheit?
| Aus: http://www.chakra.org/articles/2001/10/03/lawsuit.dismissed/
$400 Million Suit against Hare Krishna Dismissed from ISKCON Communications Dallas, Texas—The Honorable Sam A. Lindsay, Judge of the United States District Court in Dallas, in a decision filed September 28, has permanently dismissed a lawsuit seeking $400 million dollars in damages from several dozen temples, entities and individuals affiliated with the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), better known as the Hare Krishna movement, a monotheistic Vaishnava denomination within the Hindu tradition. The suit was originally filed on June 12, 2000. It alleged that various forms of child abuse occurred in the 1970’s and 1980’s at several parochial schools and temples affiliated with ISKCON. The case attempted to use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) to corral allegations of abuse at several schools into one Federal case. "This was clearly a victory for religious freedom," said David Liberman, one of the attorneys for ISKCON defendants. "The plaintiff’s attorney disingenuously sought to apply the RICO act in a attempt to go after the assets of innocent people and temple congregations. This effort would have opened the door for churches and religious institutions across the country to be attacked in a way never intended by the Congressional authors of the RICO law." Significantly, many respected faiths and religious organizations including the National Council of Churches, the United States Catholic Conference, the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, and the American Jewish Congress filed an Amicus Curiae brief, or Friends of the Court document, in support of the Krishna position on the RICO claim. Krishna leaders assert that the suit sought to close temples and seize their assets, instead of pursuing and punishing those deviant individuals who may have been abusive of children. "We are greatly pleased and relieved by Judge Lindsay’s decision on this case," said Anuttama Dasa, ISKCON Director of Communications. "The decision will protect innocent families whose temples were threatened with closure by this overreaching suit. At the same time, we remain committed to assure the safety of our children and will continue to reach out proactively to help any young person who may have suffered in the past," Dasa said. ISKCON policies mandate immediate reporting of any allegations of abuse to government authorities. An independent organization, Children of Krishna, was formed in 1996 to provide grants for education and counseling for Krishna youth. In 1998, a professionally staffed Child Protection Office (CPO) was established to investigate all allegations of abuse, to provide assistance for youth, and to assure that Krishna communities comply with requirements for child safety and abuse prevention. CHAKRA 3 October 2001 |
400-Millionen-Dollar-Klage:
Eine steigt aus
| Aus: http://www.chakra.org/2002/01/09/dropping.lawsuit/index.htm
Dropping the Lawsuit by Laksmana To all of the Vaishnavas, past present, and future, far and near, all dear within my heart as you are most dear to my Lord. Thank you for your sincere devotion to Krishna all these years, and please accept my humble obeisances and apologies for being so veiled by ignorance and misjudging the situation due to getting triggered by almost inhuman amounts of pain as a child and up until the last few months, really. I hope you can all forgive me as I am just now remembering my deep love for Their Lordships Srimati Radhika and Sri Sri Krsna, and I know now that all good is possible and will reign on earth as long as we keep faith. The lawsuit against ISKCON is still going on—it is just in state court now, but I am dropping my participation and praying that others’ eyes and hearts will open as mine have. Please forgive me, as we are all one, trying to remember our original position of devotion within Krsna’s lotus heart. May ISKCON’s true heart shine pure and bright with this shiny new year. Laksmana (Ambuja) Dear Mr. Turley, Again, I am trying to get a response from you regarding my decision to drop my part in the lawsuit against ISKCON for child abuse. I have had a complete change of heart, and my trust for the Divine Will of the Supreme Creator and Controller has been reawakened, much thanks to the saint Mata Amritanandamayi Devi. She says something that I have been feeling so much the last year: "God’s grace cannot lift us if we are carrying the weight of desires and the ego." a. For many years, until meeting her actually, I felt like God had abandoned me in this life, and sometimes I even felt like he wanted me to fight this battle against corruption within His temples, but recently I have realized that He is taking care of every detail and that everyone will be compensated for their actions—in His Perfect way—whether it be punishment or reward. Only He truly knows how to deal with these complex situations that on the surface seem simple but are spanning over lifetimes and across time and space even. As human consciousness is simultaneously degenerating and evolving, the importance of forgiveness seems priority to me. I am realizing that we are all brothers and sisters within God’s heart as well as mirrors for each other. We can learn from each other without harming them in return because that just keeps the cycle of karma going. And as we judge them, we usually end up finding traces of the very thing we judge within us, for it seems to get stuck in our body as we try to process it or avoid it. When we bring the light of compassion to any situation, it flows through the heart of it, finds the pure love that is the deepest seed within the problem and nurtures it until it grows bigger and stronger than the weeds. This way we do not end up embodying the evil we witness. Love is a higher vibration and has the power to transform the molecules of anything it comes into contact with. b. My goal with the lawsuit had been to try to force more awareness to happen within ISKCON so that not a single other child would have to go through the pain and suffering I did. Now, I feel only like holding them in the best light within my heart prayers, knowing that their seed intention is beautiful and pure and everything else was mistakes that they must have learned by now are disastrous and consequential. I, however, want to focus all my energy in this lifetime on loving and seeing God everywhere, rather than fighting the darkness that follows the light everywhere. c. As my heart has been opened back up to Krishna’s love, I have been seeing more and more the pure intentions behind the majority of people within ISKCON. Though so many didn’t seem to get it and the way I was raised seemed so loveless, I have so much honor now for the intention and the devotion that just didn’t get grounded into interpersonal relations. Now that I myself am pursuing a spiritual practice, I see how difficult it is when truly surrendering to God, to ground this in the illusion of worldly affairs. I have faith that they in ISKCON are learning how to bring it into personal dealings with other humans, just as I am and we all are evolving so much right now. d. ISKCON is my family and I miss the temples. Krishna is my father, my mother, my guru, all my teachers, and you, even. To sue ISKCON would be to sue Krsna, for He is ultimately responsible for even the slightest blade of grass moving. Even though He is everywhere, not just in the temples, I feel like it’s important for the temples to stay open and for Krsna to be praised into infinity. I just feel horrible for losing faith in Him due to my intense suffering. It is only now that I have met the embodiment of pure, unconditional love in Mata Amritanandamayi (Amma), that my own essence of purity is being revealed and reflected, and it is deeply rooted, like a white lotus, in Srila Prabhupada’s gift of bringing Krishna to the West. I am such a better person able to handle such a wide array of experiences due to my suffering, and my compassion is boundless because of it. The gifts are still unfolding like unopened packages from Krishna lying at my feet. How could I have known that it was all for my ultimate supreme fulfillment? How could I have known that Krishna really was there watching over me the whole time? I only know now. And I feel apologetic beyond measure for being so ignorant that I doubted the presence of a loving God. Though so many people went so astray with His teachings and resources, I am committed to seeing another way to work things out besides a heartless battle. Thank you so much for being so dedicated to the hearts of us as children. I know that you took the case on even though you knew it was a big risk financially because your heart felt compassion and you sincerely cared to help us get the help we needed. Mr. Turley, I know you will be rewarded for your compassionate heart, and though I hope it’s not through ISKCON’s downfall, I trust that God is the master player in all of these little webs we think we are weaving, and who knows what He has in store for us? Thank you.
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