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It’s amazing how you are expected to have an opinion on everything even if you know little or nothing of the facts, I have been asked on several occasions on the departure of the Temple president following aligations of over punishment of children in India and if I felt that he should be retained in some capacity.

Firstly I have had a long and productive talk with the head of ISKCON child protection and the safeguards are impressive although we agree not infallible.

I received this newsletter by email just now and decided to mention it on this web site. It doesn't talk about congregational development or preaching, but protecting our children from abuse is a universal issue and necessity.

For a long time devotees thought that we, aspiring devotees of Lord Krishna and followers of Srila Prabhupada, would not have to concern ourselves with particularly nasty aberrations of the human mind like child abuse and neglect – unfortunately we were mistaken.