Prabhupadanugas Detroit

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 Pratyatosa Dasa ACBSP pratyatosa@gmail.com wrote: Dear Prabhus, Hare Krsna! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Sulocana Prabhu was from Michigan. He was initiated in Detroit as was myself, Puranjana Prabhu, and Naveen Krishna Prabhu. Immediately after Sulocana’s murder, a local Detroit newspaper did a story about it, and his picture filled an entire page! My brother-in-law in Frasier, Michigan, a Detroit suburb, had saved the picture and the accompanying article for years before he finally gave it to me. Unfortunately, it seems to have been misplaced.

Detroit was also where the Turley child abuse lawsuit was born. I was living near the Detroit temple the day that that fateful email message arrived from the Turley law firm. It was a reply to an email that I had sent them 1 1/2 years earlier! I sent it when I was in the process of being kicked out of the St. Louis temple by Romapada and Bhadrinarayan http://www.vnn.org/usa/971108-1181/index.html

Obviously, I sent it because I was upset. At the time that I received the email, I was already furious about the GBC resolution that year that kicked the 7 ISKCON leaders, who were actively promoting ritvikism, out of ISKCON. At the time I was “babysitting” for two teenaged ex-gurukulis. They are the children of Yasogami Devi Dasi, who was also initiated in person by Srila Prabhupada in Detroit.
She welcomed the idea of a lawsuit because she was upset about her teenaged daughter having been sexually molested on the Detroit temple property by the pujari!

She was mostly upset by ISKCON’s “keep it secret, intimidate the victim, and move the perpetrator to another temple” policy.
In Detroit, at the time, I was going to the temple for prasadam almost every day, and because of the articles that I had been posting on VNN.ORG, in an effort to try and recruit litigants for the lawsuit http://www.vnn.org/world/WD9903/WD24-3407.html the Detroit temple authorities, in retaliation, were threatening legal action against me!
They said that I would be sued for using corporal punishment in the gurukula that my wife and I had started in Detroit! I told them, “Go ahead! I’ll simply tell the truth. I have nothing to hide.”

That gurukula was ISKCON’s first day school. I used to get yelled at at the headmasters meetings: “Prabhupada said that gurukula means ashrams (boarding schools),” but my wife and I went on, undeterred.
That gurukula day school in Detroit set a precedent for ISKCON which saved many devotee children from being sexually abused! Your servant, Pratyatoá¹£a Dasa http://causelessmercy.com/ http://pratyatosa.com/ http://llbest.com/

I should have said “a pujari,” not “the head pujari.” He was an Indian bodied pujari who sexually molested her. I think that it happened when she was 16 years old or perhaps even younger.