Walking the talk is hard for all!

[Guest guest]

Hare Krishna Sect Uncovered

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0512/13/pzn.01.html

 

DREW GRIFFIN, CNN INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Anya

Pourchot says she escaped the Hare Krishnas at 17. It's been 20

years, but she says she still gets physically sick the moment she

hears the chanting.

 

ANYA POURCHOT, VICTIM: I usually have to just run, so that I can keep

myself together.

 

GRIFFIN: Joe Fournier, who was brought into the Krishnas at the age

of 7, says it's taken years for him to be able to talk about what

happened.

 

JOE FOURNIER, VICTIM: Very painful, yes. I have gone through years of

therapy to come out of it, yes, to survive

...............................

 

ANUTTAMA DASA, INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS: Too

many of them were former hippies and people that were trying to get

away from social restraints, and things like that, and were looking

for an opportunity to kind of find maybe some easy solutions to some

of the problems that they faced.

 

GRIFFIN: What sets this story apart from so many other lawsuits

involving religious organizations and abuse is what the Krishnas

decided to do this past spring.

 

Krishna communications director Anuttama Dasa says the society admits

it was wrong, admits the abuse took place in many of its schools, and

has agreed to pay compensation for the horrible abuse. The society is

also begging for forgiveness

 

.........................