Hays County fugitive to be featured on ‘The Hunt’

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By Diana J Winters
Producer

SAN ANTONIO – A Hays County fugitive convicted of nearly two dozen counts of child molestation will be featured on Sunday evening’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Hunt.”

The show features John Walsh, crime victims’ activist and spokesman for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

According to the U.S. Marshals Service, Swami Prakashanand Saraswati, also known to his spiritual followers as Swamiji, failed to appear in court on March 7, 2011, and has not been seen since.

The court date stems from a 2007 incident in which three female victims of Barsana Dham, an ashram in northern Hays County, made an outcry to the Hays County Sheriff’s Office, alleging they had been abused in the ashram at the hands of Saraswati.

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