GBC Letter of Censure to Bir Krishna Das Goswami

[Pratyatosa]

Dear Prabhus, Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

This flagrant example of criminal negligence on the part of Bir Krishna Das Goswami in Hillsborough, North Carolina in 1996 (see 2011 GBC Minutes excerpt below) put my own children and the other gurukula children at risk. I think that I have a right to know the details. Do any of you know anything about this?

Windle Turley, the high powered Dallas, Texas lawyer who sued ISKCON for child abuse in 2000, told me over the phone in 1999 that sexual child abuse is like a cancer. "If it's not brought out into the open quickly and dealt with quickly, then the abused become abusers and the abuse spreads like wildfire." (paraphrased)

Not only BKG, but the entire GBC body is guilty of gross criminal negligence for covering up the severe sexual abuse of helpless children for decades, thereby allowing it to spread like a cancer right under their very noses. They even went so far as to keep the abuse secret from gurukula headmasters such as myself!

And yet these same criminals are still in charge of ISKCON, desperately clinging to their positions like tyrannical dictators who are afraid of being brought to justice if they give up power. Thus, like typical tyrants, they are cursed to have to cling to their positions of power well past the time that their positions should have been turned over to a new generation of leaders.

Srila Prabhupada said over and over again that his disciples should take vanaprastha (begin giving up the comforts of home and begin giving up all social, political and business ties) at the age of 50 years. Srila Prabhupada never said that an exception could be made if a particular disciple was on the GBC or there was an emergency situation or any of the many other excuses that his disciples are currently dreaming up.

How many of the current GBC men are past the age of 50? How much longer are we going to have to put up with these incompetent, criminally negligent rascals being in charge of Srila Prabhupada's beloved ISKCON?

Your servant, Pratyatosa Dasa, former gurukula headmaster

308: Letter of Censure to Bir Krishna Das Goswami

Dear Bir Krishna Maharaja,

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Due to the reasons stated below, you have been censured. A censure expresses disapproval of your conduct. A censure is an official note of caution.

Please take due notice thereof and rectify the situation.

In 1996, as GBC of ISKCON Hillsborough, North Carolina, you received a credible allegation that a member of the congregation had committed sexual abuse of a child some years earlier in another country. While some investigation was done, and some cautionary steps taken, you failed to properly report the incident to local authorities, or later to the CPO. Most significantly, the local community and householders were not notified or made or aware of this potential threat, contrary to ISKCON Law 3.5.5.1.3.9.

This put the community at risk and created serious potential exposure to repetition of these incidents.

Your servants on the GBC Body

[David Sherk]

--- On Mon, 5/2/11, Praty Jaya Prabhu,                            All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Pranams I spent the winter there around 1988. Met Amitacara  Prabhu who was keeping a diary of Bir's weird anomalies. Unfortunately , he turned this over to the GBC without keeping a copy. I do know that there some strange verbal exchanges with the matajis. Last I knew , Amitacara had a preaching center in Charlottesville, VA. I visited him there a couple of times in the 1990's . Jaya Radhe                             Gadai

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[Pratyatosa]

Here are some details about why Bir Krishna Das Goswami was censured at this year's GBC meeting for something that happened in 1996 when I was still there in North Carolina helping my wife to run the local gurukula (school):

http://harekrsna.com/sun/editorials/07-11/editorials7521.htm

It states that BKG sent out a letter of apology to all of the parents, but I never received any such letter. The first that I heard about this sordid affair was when I read this year's GBC resolutions!

Ys, Ptd

[Paul Howard]

The same Iskcon Law they censured BKG for breaking in 1996 was also violated by Radhanatha, Malati, and Tamohara in 2005 when they arranged for Vakresvara Pandit to be Bhakti-Tirtha's honored guest in our Gita-nagari community. ISKCON won't consider it. I couldn't even get a response from ISKCON Resolve.
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Pratyatosa <praty...@gmail.com> wrote:

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