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Employee tells royal commission yoga ashram should not be ‘held to ransom’ by compensation demands
Posted: December 9, 2014 at 5:49 pm
A worker at a New South Wales yoga ashram who denies fetching teenage girls from their beds at night and taking them to their spiritual leader, who sexually abused them, says the organisation should not be 'held to ransom' by people seeking compensation.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is looking at the handling of 11 complaints made against Swami Akhandananda Saraswati over the past 40 years, relating to abuse that happened in the 1970s and '80s.
Muktimurti Saraswati told the Sydney hearing that she joined the ashram at Mangrove Mountain on the New South Wales Central Coast when she was 17.
She worked as a secretary and assistant to a woman called Shishi who has already appeared before the royal commission.
Muktimurti rejected earlier evidence from a victim, Alecia Buchanan, who said Muktimurti took her to Akhandananda's room where she was repeatedly abused.
"I can recall absolutely and categorically it never happened," Muktimurti said, adding that she did not believe the allegations of abuse when they first emerged.
"After Akhandananda went to jail I have to say I think we all became disillusioned with him," she said.
"But I stayed in the ashram not because I dedicated my life to him but to the ideal that is expressed within the ashram."
Last week the lawyer representing the ashram apologised to the victims and acknowledged they might view efforts to make amends as "too little, too late".
Muktimurti said she still does not know if the abuse occurred but said: "It looks rather likely."
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Posted: December 8, 2014 at 11:53 pm
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Royal Commission: Satyananda ashram doctor did not see sex abuse
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The Royal Commission has heard Dr Henry Sztulman at the ashram was distrustful of the children's allegations which were reported to police in 1987.
The resident doctor at a yoga ashram at the centre of a child sex abuse inquiry said he did not believe the rape claims when he first heard them.
Dr Henry Sztulman, a qualified general practitioner and resident of the Satyananda Yoga Ashram from 1979 to 1990, told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse he was distrustful of the children's allegations which were reported to police in 1987.
He continued to visit the ashram's leader, Swami Akhandananda Saraswati, after he was jailed in 1989 over sexual offences committed against ashram children. The conviction was overturned in 1991.
He told the commission he now believes former child residents were sexually abused by their spiritual leader but denied a claim that he treated one child with morphine for minor ailments.
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The doctor's prescribing methods were called into question at the commission, with evidence of a 2002 Medical Tribunal of NSW finding that he was guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct in relation to prescribing drugs of addiction.
He was reprimanded by the tribunal and placed under supervision for about two years.
Dr Sztulman told the commission he did not witness any of the vicious beatings described in evidence and could not recall the children being deprived of food.
"They were fun loving kids who played around," he said.
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I didn’t give kids morphine: ashram doctor
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SYDNEY Dec 9 AAP - A doctor has denied over-prescribing morphine to children at a NSW yoga ashram where he lived for a decade.
Former child residents at the Mangrove Yoga Ashram have given evidence that they were drugged, beaten and raped by the spiritual leader, Swami Akhandananda.
Practices at the NSW Central Coast retreat during the 70s and 80s are being examined by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Henry Sztulman, a GP who lived at the ashram for 10 years, denied allegations by witnesses that he prescribed morphine regularly for minor ailments like an infected toe.
"Absolutely not," Dr Sztulman said.
Dr Sztulman denied administering morphine at the ashram except on two occasions when people were in excruciating pain - once to a swami who had been poisoned by a stone fish.
Dr Sztulman said he slowly came to accept there had been abuse at the ashram although he never saw any "overt behaviour" indicating abuse of the children.
He denied witnessing public beatings of adults and children.
"I didn't actually see it, but one of the guys ... said something happened and Swami Akhandananda slapped his face," he said.
In 2002 The Medical Tribunal of NSW prohibited Dr Sztulman from prescribing addictive pain killers.
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