NIGHTMARISH MEMORIES OF HARE KRISHNA SCHOOL HERE.(News)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: October 10, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Twenty years after she attended a Hare Krishna boarding school in Seattle, Felicia Bebelman still vividly remembers being locked in a dark closet or basement as punishment when she was 8 and 9 years old.

``Hence I had a fear of the dark for many, many years,'' said Bebelman, 28, who has spent much of life being addressed by her Hare Krishna name, Madhava Priya.

Now living in New York, Bebelman is one of many former students of long-closed Hare Krishna boarding schools in the United States and India whose stories of physical, sexual and emotional abuse in the 1970s and ...

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