SABHA’s Open Letter to the GBC on Child Abuse

Dear respected GBC Members,

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

In light of the recent shocking report by the ISKCON Central Office of Child Protection (ICOCP), the SABHA would like to share our thoughts.

As we now know from the report, Anirdesya Vapu dasa (AVD), formerly Bhaktividya Purna Swami, for many years committed and overlooked horrific verbal, physical and sexual abuse to children under his care and young ladies serving in his projects, creating a network of abuse within the boys’ gurukula and the girls’ school in Mayapur. Even before this report, AVD had two previous ICOCP investigations and decisions regarding allegations of child abuse.