AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
December 9, 2014
Rachel Browne
Social Affairs Reporter
A long-term resident of a yoga ashram at the centre of a sex abuse inquiry wept as she said she saw no evidence of multiple child rapes despite living in close quarters with the victims and their abuser, the centre’s former leader Swami Akhandananda Saraswati✓.
Muktimurti Saraswatiwho has lived at the Satyananda Yoga Ashram at Mangrove Mountain on and off since 1978, told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that she could not say whether the allegations were true or false.
Nine witnesses have given the royal commission graphic accounts of horrific physical and sexual abuse committed in the 1970s and 1980s over the past week of the inquiry.
Muktimurti told the commission that evidence before the inquiry had cast suspicion over the ashram, now known as the Mangrove Yoga Ashram.
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