AUSTRALIA
The Australian
DECEMBER 06, 2014
Amanda Hodge
South Asia Correspondent
New Delhi
THE son of an elderly Sydney couple who run the NSW yoga school at the centre of child sexual abuse claims says he was aware there was a “bad apple” in the organisation “who hurt a lot of people”.
Brian and Mary Thompson (known as Vivekananda and Hridayananda) have refused to comment publicly on witness testimony this week on abuses at the Satyananda yoga school in the 1970s and 80s to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
But their son Charles Thompson, 53, told The Weekend Australian his parents were forced to return from India to “clean up the mess” after criminal allegations against the school’s yoga master, Swami Akhandananda.
“I met him. He was a bad apple,” Mr Thompson said by phone from Pune, 150km southeast of Mumbai. “From what I can understand, (Akhandananda) hurt a lot of people.
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