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International Business Times
By Jayalakshmi K
August 7, 2015
Authorities may be no closer to hunting down a “rogue” Indian guru who abused children at an ashram in Texas, but two of the girls who suffered at his hands still hope that Prakashanand Saraswati will be brought to justice.
After enduring much torment, and amid a lack of support from their parents, three American girls managed to get a court to sentence Saraswati to 14 years of imprisonment.
But the man escaped, probably to India from where he had come to the US.
The hunt has continued for four years now and the Tonnessen sisters hope justice will prevail.
“He’s still out there and he’s still abusing people,” Vesla Tonnessen told CNN’s The Hunt. “I don’t think that will stop until he’s imprisoned.”
CNN traces the story back to the 90s when the girls and their parents lived on the 200-acre wild land at Barsana Dham, the ashram of the International Society for Divine Love in Austin.
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