ALAYA RAHM'S TESTIMONY
SOME KEY STATEMENTS
the full statement of the Rahm family and the International JuST Group is here
The former prominent devotee family of Al Rahm have explained why they left Sathya Sai Baba after many years of leadership in his Organization, Their son, Alaya Rahm's has stood forth and testified on camera about Sai Baba's most serious molestations (underage sexual abuse) and threats made against him in interviews alone with him. This can be seen on two serious documentary films, one made by the official Danish State Broadcasting Company ('Seduced' by DR or 'Danish Radio' National TV Channel One) and the other by the British BBC TV as 'The Secret Swami' (Channel Two and BBC World).
Alaya was brought up from childhood to believe Sathya Sai Baba is God, but - after numerous harrowing encounters where Sai Baba used all this power and authority to make him enter into sexual relations, he spoke out. An example of real courage and truthfulness in action! He tried to sue Sai Baba in the USA, but was unable to proceed since this could only be done in India, where sathya Sai Baba has total protection by the Indian Government and Supreme Court. In the USA, the Sathya Sai Organization was unregistered which made them accountable and liable to be sued. The only registered Sai body in America was the Sathya Sai Society of USA, a bookshop and charity which wa used to transfer funds to India. Dr. Michael Goldstein, head of the International Sathya Sai Organization, could not be shown to be involved in inducing Alaya Rahm into sexual relations with Sathya Sai Baba because it was only Sai baba who did that. Therefore the case had to be abandoned entirely in the USA. This in no way caused Alaya Rahm to withdraw one word of his allegations, which still stand unchanged (see below here). Despite this, fanatical supporters of Sai Baba make bogus claims to refute this, and to try to attack the Rahm family on trumped-up charges and with irrelevant side-issues (see here)
Formerly using a cover name, Sam, Alaya Rahm said, for example: "One time he had his robe almost completely off and he tried to have anal sex with me, because he came from behind me and started climbing up on top of me, you know, and being that I'm so much taller than him, in order to keep prevent it from happening, I just stood straight up and didn't allow him to do anything, you know, and I kind of kept pushing him away and keep him there until ??... I know, I want to talk to you, I want to be with you and I love you. He said, "You don't love me? You don't love me?" And I would say, "No, I love you, but I just don't want to have sexual relations with you." Alaya also told how Sathya Sai Baba says to numerous of his victims "Do not tell anyone about this." This is common among pedophiles, to swear their victims to secrecy and to use threats too. Sathya Sai Baba used both money and threats to try to keep the then under-age Alaya Rahm silent. After this, one can understand how Sai Baba's famous 'borrowed' statement "My Life is My Message" is practiced (wholly unlike the practice of the originator of that same phrase, Mahatma Gandhi)
Alaya Rahm was still using the pseudonym 'Sam' - before he went fully public for the BBC documentary 'The Secret Swami') when he was interviewed in the Danish film "Seduced"
Transcript of commentary and interview on 'Seduced':
205 00:28:09:06 00:28:15:24 But there are much more serious allegations against
Sai Baba, accusations of sexual molestation.
206 00:28:16:02 00:28:21:13 The guru is known for daily selecting disciples
to take to a so-called interview.
207 00:28:21:16 00:28:24:08 The interviews take place alone in a room with Sai
Baba -
208 00:28:24:11 00:28:30:02 - and are regarded as something of the highest one
can achieve.
209 00:28:30:05 00:28:35:00 The accusers say that Sai Baba has molested his
disciples sexually during these interviews.
210 00:28:35:03 00:28:39:18 It involves young men and boys, including minors.
211 00:28:39:21 00:28:43:24 Sai Baba and his organisation have so far rejected
all allegations.
212 00 28:44:02 00:28:49:06 They characterize the allegations as an evil campaign
based on second-hand rumours.
213 00:28:49:09 00:28:55:07 Danish Radio has spoken to a number of ex-disciples
who have been molested.
("SAM" former alias for Alaya Rahm) One time he had his robe almost
completely off and he tried to have anal sex with me, because he came from behind
me and started climbing up on top of me, you know, and being that I'm so much
taller than him, in order to keep prevent it from happening, I just stood straight
up and didn't allow him to do anything, you know, and I kind of kept pushing
him away and keep him there until ??... I know, I want to talk to you, I want
to be with you and I love you. He said, "You don't love me? You don't love
me?" And I would say, "No, I love you, but I just don't want to have
sexual relations with you." (See brief video clip of above)
214 00:29:32:00 00:29:36:07 The boy and his family were showered with jewels
and watches.
215 00:29:36:10 00:29:41:05 The family wishes to remain anonymous because they
fear the reactions of Sai Baba`s followers.
216 00:29:41:08 00:29:46:21 Today they live in the US Midwest. The father was
one of the leaders in the American Sai movement -
217 00:29:46:24 00:29:53:22 But he broke with the organisation when he discovered
the molesting. This is the first time they give their accounts on TV.
("SAM"s father - Al Rahm) We were shocked when we heard it and the
both of us just embraced our son at that time and we said, "That's it.
It's over. It's finished." And the thing that was most impactful there,
was that when we said to him, "Why didn't you tell us?", and he said,
"The greatest fear that I had was that my family would choose Sai Baba and I
would lose my family." And that he had lived with that fear. And he said,
"and that I would be responsible for possibly bringing down an organisation
as big as this."
("SAM") The first time I had a personal experience with Sai Baba was when
I was 16 years old. I went to India alone with some friends in a USA group.
I think I was the only person in that group that he gave a personal interview
to. I went in there, and he motioned for me to lower my pants. And I did. I
was very nervous at the time, yeah. And he waved his hand and turned it over
and showed me some oil. And he started to rub it on my testicles and started
kissing me. And as he was kissing me, he started kissing me deeply, you know.
And I started tensing up and, you know, not understanding what was happening.
But it seemed to me as if Sai Baba was trying to make my penis erect.
(
SAM'S FATHER) He had told me not to tell anybody about what he had done, that
people wouldn't understand it.
218 00:31:46:24 oo:31:49:21
(COMMENTATOR) the molestations went on for several years.
("SAM") The second time that I went to see Sai Baba was in 1997. I went
with my whole family and a group of people. I believe we had about 10 people
in our group. I don't remember exactly what happened that first day, but I know
that there was physical contact in the personal interview room. I ended up getting
about 20 to 21 personal interviews within a month and a half. Then he at one
time gave me a watch and I wore it for about a week. And after about the first
week of wearing it, the gold started to fade off of the inside and around the
sides and I felt it to be kind of strange, because I felt it was like a token
of love or a spiritual gift or some sort of a … something special, and
it was just already … it was really cheap, I could tell. The second hand
was sometimes moving in different directions, and the gold left and so I asked
him in an interview, you know, why it was changing colours and he almost got
upset with me for asking a question like that, you know. And he told me then,
"I'm going to give you a solid gold watch." And so he made another
watch for me. It was solid gold. At the time it looked very gold on the front
and the back. And about a week later it was all faded off. It didn't work very
well for very long. But every time we would go back into the personal room,
his wants got to be very intimate. And he was constantly having me take out
my penis and he would hold it, sometimes put it in his mouth and look at me,
and then ask me to do the same thing or push my head down and lift his robe
up. And I was gagging and almost about to vomit. And, you know, that was probably
the most mentally break down type of thing I've ever done in my life, because
if I didn't feel like at that time, like my life or my family's happiness or
… was depending on it, I wouldn't have done it. But my mentality at that
time … I felt like it was a life or almost death situation. You know, this
was God in human form, but that was my mental program - this is God in human
form. How could I deny him what he was trying to make me do? There must be some
deeper reason or deeper meaning that what I see."
219 00:34:33:13 00:34:37:18 Sai Baba threatened the boy by saying that his family
would not get any more interviews -
220 00:34:37:21 00:34:41:10 If he revealed anything to his parents.
(SAM) But there were several occasions that really made it snap in my mind that
it was no longer even possibly a spiritual experience. I was constantly feeling
the pressures of the thousands and thousands of people outside the room that
all wanted to be in the position that I was in, and who every day almost treated
me with anger or resent, you know, because I got so much attention from Sai Baba.
My feeling, however, was, if you guys only knew what was actually going on back
there, you wouldn't even want to be in my shoes, because it's not very funny.
221 00:35:20:12 00:35:24:04 This family was far from being the only one who
can tell of sexual abuse.
222 00:35:24:07 00:35:29:04 The police in USA, Germany and France have received
formal charges from ex-disciples.
223 00:35:29:07 00:35:33:12 Twenty reports were deposited with the Indian authorities
in March 2001.
224 00:35:33:15 00:35:38:04 The court in India has still not decided how it
will deal with the formal charges.
225 00:35:38:07 00:35:45:06 One of the accusers lives in Boston. His mother
is a fervent follower of Baba, and he was too for six years.
(JED GEYERHAHN) In 1989 when I was 15 years old I went to India for three weeks.
And on that trip I had four interviews. And in the third interview he actually
asked me to untie my pants. And he forcibly pulled my pants down and with his
bare hand grabbed my groin and rubbed some oil on the side of my scrotum. And
I went again on the following year, and on that trip when I was 16 years old,
Sai Baba called me again for a private interview. At that point I was even actually
more uncomfortable because it seemed like this had already taken place, there
is no reason why it needed to take place again. But he asked me to take my pants
down. I did and he went on and produced an oily substance and rubbed it on the
side of my scrotum.
(see brief video clip)
226 00:36:34:10 00:36:38:15 According to Jed Geyerhahn, he is far from being
the only one.
(JED GEYERHAHN) I have talked with students at Sai Baba's school and they have had
sexual relationships with Sai Baba. And it's really common knowledge that several
students stay with Sai Baba all night on an ongoing basis. And of course nobody talks
about what takes place with these students with Sai Baba, but from the students I've
talked to (it's) clear that there are sexual relationships taking place. And
in fact one student I talked to directly was a person that was staying with
Sai Baba. And from the conversation it was clear that it was very difficult for him
to come forward with this information, because he'd be rejected by his family
and by his culture and by his people, unlike American students who have the
support of their culture and society and family. They come forward and talk
about the fact that they have been mistreated by Sai Baba.
("SAM") What really helped me was when I had some conversations with
some other people who had had similar experiences. Because I felt, that if they
had had experiences as intense, or close to as intense as mine, I could talk
to them about it more openly than I could talk to my dad. So we had talked about
it, and all the people that I had talked about it were equally confused about
it as I was. However, also equally brainwashed and allowing it to continue to
take place. So I would say that finally I decided that I was not going to put
myself into that position again, because life without Sai Baba was going to be a better
life."
227 00:38:26:03 00:38:29:06 When his son at last told him what was going on
-
228 00:38:29:09 00:38:34:18 - the father broke all connection with Sai Baba
and resigned as leader of a part of the movement in America.
(SAM'S FATHER) I could see the manipulation that had been done. The threats,
the pressure, the intense responsibility to bring this boy along, to keep him
around for seven years as Baba's plaything.
229 00:38:53:16 00:38:58:13 The father says that he complained to the highest
leader in the organisation in the USA.
(SAM'S FATHER) We told him every single detail. And honestly, I would say that
he was genuinely shaken. He made comments like, "Faith has to be restored.
Words will not be enough. I hate to think that 25 years of my life had been
for nothing, had been a waste. We MUST talk to Baba about this." And he
asked us, "Please, please, do not tell anyone about this until we've had
a chance to talk to Baba." He said, "I will go, I will be there for
his birthday." He was called in and he specifically addressed the situation
with our family. Baba was very clear exactly which family it was. He said, "Baba,
I need to talk to you about inappropriate action that this family says you've
had with their son." Baba's response was: "Swami is pure." The
next day Baba gave his big birthday discourse, and in that discourse he praised
this individual, that man who is the head of the organisation, more than he
had ever praised anyone else before, saying what an incredible devotee he was,
and all that he had done. And a friend of mine who had videotaped it and had
it, was approached afterwards by this man. He said, "Oh, did you get that
on tape?" He said, "It was the peak of my life." So when he returned
and he called me, he said, "I've done what I said I would do. I've kept
my word. I spoke to Baba. Baba's response is: 'Swami is pure,' and he said that
you would return." And he said, "My heart and my mind are on Swami.
You have to do whatever you have to do." And I just ... I felt that he
just couldn't face it.
Alaya Rahm's Lawsuit vs Sathya Sai Society of America
- Joint Statement by the International JuST Group and the Rahm family
Date: July 16, 2006
At considerable personal sacrifice to himself and family, Alaya Rahm, 27, filed a civil lawsuit against California leaders of the Sathya Sai Society of America, who include the world chairman of Sathya Sai Baba’s organization, Dr Michael Goldstein. The case was heard by Judge John M. Watson of the Superior Court, County of Orange, California, on April 28th, 2006.
Substantive evidence was about to be called in court to support Alaya Rahm’s case, for which the Judge had allotted five weeks. However, his attorney, William Brelsford Esq., seeing formidable legal obstacles set by the defendants, and also working against a statute of limitations deadline, advised Alaya Rahm to self-dismiss the case. Along with other difficulties encountered, his attorney has explained, June 29th, 2006, to Alaya Rahm and his family:
“We were successful at the demurrer stage in establishing that a duty would be owed by the Society in the event they sponsored and/or endorsed the trips that Alaya went on when he was abused by Sai Baba. As it turns out, the Society is not the "hub" of all of Sai Baba's corporate activities. Rather, the Society, pursuant to declarations under penalty of perjury, confirmed they are a bookstore...nothing more. Accordingly, we do not have the necessary factual requirements to establish liability on the Society/Book center.”
No court found Alaya's allegations to be false. Simply, the suit could not continue on a technicality, and the claims of sexual abuse stand irrefutably true, just as before. The Sathya Sai Organization could take legal cover behind its bookstore. This is a very different situation to that being depicted in the systematic disinformation being spread throughout the Sai movement; for example, by those connected with its official international broadcast wing Radio Sai.
Among others ready to testify to the court was the former Mrs Diane Payne - USA. Hislop mentioned her in the letters he wanted kept secret that describe her having written to him alleging Sai Baba’s sexual abuse of her then teenage son in the 1970’s. Her child was then a student at Sai Baba’s College at Whitefield, near Bangalore. Again because important depositions were not able to be heard in court, Mark Roche, who formerly had long-term close ties with the most important leaders of the Sai Organization in the USA, was unable to testify. He appeared in the BBC television documentary ‘The Secret Swami’ (2004): In his BBC interview, Mr Roche spoke of Sai Baba’s forcing oral sex on him in 1976 when Roche was very young. He was also prepared to state under oath that he had told Sai Baba’s foremost overseas leader, Dr John Hislop, well before 1980, that Sai Baba had sexually abused him. These incidents occurred when Dr Hislop was the head of the Sai Organization in the USA. The Rahm family has stated:
"In the Hislop letters, the director Michael Goldstein was one of those called to consider the Payne sexual abuse matter. When our family met with Michael Goldstein in North-west Arkansas in September 1999 to confide in him the story of Alaya's abuse by Sai Baba, Michael Goldstein told us that he had never heard anything like this before. That was over twenty years after the Hi slop letters, which we now know prove he was lying."
The Sathya Sai Organization has set itself up to avoid legal accountability and full public scrutiny. There is no legal entity in the United States against which a lawsuit demanding responsibility of Goldstein and other key directors of the Sathya Sai Society of America can be brought. The Organization’s leaders will not truly investigate or let the lower echelon leadership and the rank-and-file members know the nature and seriousness of the accusations against Sai Baba. These go well beyond sexual abuse of young males and include complicity in gigantic and wrongful deployment of funds garnered worldwide, and a cover-up of several killings in Sai Baba’s bedroom in June 6, 1993. The leaders will not even answer letters from complainants who have held high office in the Sai Organization, which have often been returned unopened. Such unaccountability and authoritarian secrecy is the Sai Organization leadership’s rigidly enforced rule. In the case Alaya Rahm brought against them, the directors presented a witness - Lewis Kendrick, a US citizen and staunch Sai devotee who often lives near Sai Baba. Kendrick is so obviously prejudiced in favor of Sai Baba that his mostly conjectural ‘testimony’ was without probity. For example, it could easily be contested by expert psychologists who can readily explain why an abuse survivor can produce the sort of smiles that Kendrick describes of Alaya after the period in which he (Alaya) spoke of Sai Baba’s sexually abusing him many times. Moreover, his parents have stated:
“Sai Baba also threatened Alaya repeatedly that if he ever told anyone what Swami was doing, Sai Baba would use his powers to cause an accident to Alaya and would also never talk to his parents again. Naturally, if Alaya couldn't tell his parents, why would he mention anything to Kendrick, who Sai Baba himself once removed from the Rahm's’ visiting group? Sai Baba told us that Kreydick was spreading stories about our family and that we should not associate with him any longer. Sai Baba later banned Kreydick from the Ashram."
Compelling evidence could have been brought that Alaya’s case was but one of many cases of sexual abuse against citizens of the USA and other countries where Sai Baba is described as using threats and bribes. A number of sexual abuse professionals whom JuST has consulted have told us that emotional bribery and blackmail are common stratagems in the repertoire of sexual abusers. Such duress would be frightening enough for an adult, but what of mere boys in their teens!? What of those many who have been raised from birth as Sai devotees?
Because of the legalistic stumbling blocks, compelling testimony could not be presented. For example, evidence of:
· dereliction of duty of care by leaders of the Sathya Sai Organization
· from other families and individuals who allege sexual abuse by Sathya Sai Baba
What is more, hostile ploys in court by the Society’s lawyers and Lewis Kreydick to cast Alaya and Marisa Rahm (his mother) in a false, negative light have, most unjustly, remained undefended because of the sudden termination of the case.
Leading office-bearers who have attempted to expose the truth are always closed out of the Sathya Sai Organization. Therefore, lower echelon and rank-and-file members cannot deliberate on the facts. Sai Baba has lied about former devotees who now expose him, and his leaders know that. He has called them “Judases”, “demons", and has falsely and without giving a shred of evidence accused them of opposing him for money. When the Rahms took their story to Dr Goldstein, in September 1999, he was, they say, shocked and shaken, telling them, "Faith has got to be restored and words will not be enough." Promising to speak to Sai Baba, Goldstein asked the Rahms to keep the matter secret in the meantime. On his return, Goldstein said that Sai Baba replied, "Swami is pure" and "If you want to fight with people in the gutter, you also have to go into the gutter. Don't."
But the Rahms are not gutter people. Nor were they fighting. Goldstein and the leaders of the Sathya Sai Organization have breached the time-honored ethic in investigation of serious allegations that one does not rely, alone, on the word of an accused perpetrator. What indeed might a law case, allowed to run its course, reveal about this Organization?
It seems impossible to approach Sai Baba legally from abroad - not to mention the obstacles to bringing him to justice within India itself, where Supreme and High Court judges, government ministers and power brokers from many sections of Indian society are his devotees. Continuous efforts are made by the Sathya Sai Organization to cover up for its founder and to protect its own name. In regard to attempts to pursue Sathya Sai Baba by some means from outside India, William Brelsford (Alaya Rahm’s attorney) has explained:
“The lawsuit against Sai Baba (individually) was dropped because the judge indicated in the initial court appearance that he did not wish to see us pursue a case against an out- of-country defendant that is not a signatory to the Hague Treaty. Sai Baba lives in India. California does not have reciprocal jurisdiction rights against an out-of-country defendant and we cannot utilize California state subpoena powers against an out-of- country defendant not subject to the powers of the Hague Treaty without pursuing the Letters Rogatory process. That process takes several years to complete and there is no guarantee Sai Baba would even respond to service of a subpoena once a subpoena was served. Which complicates matters even more. And given Sai Baba's age, there is no guarantee he would even be alive at the time we finally could have perfected service of a complaint, let alone a deposition subpoena.”
Where they can, cults typically head off law cases on the basis of legal technicality. Sai Baba’s organization dares not face public examination. In countries in all the Sai Organization ‘regions’, its prominent leaders were instructed to ensure the Organization was not registered in a way that would render it legally or financially liable. One point which exemplifies this policy is seen in The Sathya Sai Organization Charter Section (E) CENTRES (6) Rules and Regulations: “The Centre/Group will not ordinarily be registered under the local law relating to registration of societies, if such registration is not mandatory.” (p.24).
In the late 1980s, overseas Sai Organizations and their Centers were instructed not to own or buy any property in the name of the Organization, but where necessary to let or borrow premises. The only properties and assets were to be in India, in the name of the Sathya Sai Central Trust, whose overall authority rests in Sai Baba himself!
The executives, research and legal staffs of major organizations have accepted the credibility of many witnesses from the USA and countries around the world (including those with sworn affidavits) who accuse Sathya Sai Baba of male sexual abuse over many years. These bodies include UNESCO (Paris), the US State Department, the BBC (“The Secret Swami”), AZUL TV (Argentina, “Zona de Investigación”), DR (Danish Broadcasting, “Seduced” - re-titled as “Seduced By Sai Baba” by Australia’s SBS - which, like DR, withstood Sai Organization threats to sue), and ABC Radio (Australia). Print media have likewise have accepted the credibility of former devotees and rejected Sai Organization attempts to kill the stories – e.g., India Today, The Times of London, The Daily Telegraph, Salon.com, and many other newspapers in Scandinavia, Europe, Canada, and Australia.
The Sathya Sai Organization – which, like Sai Baba, claims to uphold the truth - continually bluffs with its threats but quickly retreats when a corporation stands up to it, like the BBC, Danish broadcaster DR, Canada's CBC, Australia's SBS, India Today, and others. (Click here for example1 and example 2).
Those who know Alaya and his family are satisfied that they have told the truth. Indeed, the penalty for lying to a court in the USA, a legal system which Alaya Rahm was every bit prepared to face, is severe! The Society - or, to call things by their right name, the Sathya Sai Organization - did not and dares not face the challenge of a public examination of the case. Except, of course, in situations where it is forced into damage control.
Al Rahm says: “Alaya was seriously sexually abused by Sai Baba, who expected him to sustain a game of lies”.
Compelling accounts of individuals from many countries and investigative documentation by former devotees and some of the world’s leading media attest that Sai Baba has sexually molested boys and young men for over 30 years. Indeed, much of the international testimony, including sworn statements, could not be aired within obvious broadcast or print media limitations. Claims that these media are ‘sensationalistic’ are grossly untrue. These have been made by Sai Organization heads like Indulal Shah (formerly world head of the Organization), Dr. G. Venkataraman (Deputy Chairman of the ruling world body ‘The Prashanti Council’ chaired by Dr. Michael Goldstein and head of Radio Sai, the official international radio broadcaster) and other prominent Sai Baba apologists. As early as 1980, Dr John Hislop gathered Goldstein and the other directors to discuss the allegations by devotees. At that time as well, he accused an innocent mother and her abused teenage son of lying. Because of the technicality that closed the case, this is but one of the vital issues that it was not possible to air in court. Alaya Rahm’s attorney would have been able to demonstrate, under witness oath, that the Hislop letters - very damaging to the Sai Organization - are fully verifiable. Yet another strong witness standing by to verify these letters was Dr Timothy Conway, of Santa Barbara, USA, a former respected leader in the Sai Organization. It is a veracity which the Society’s directors could not, under oath (unless they perjured themselves) deny, for they were indeed among the recipients of these letters.
Al Rahm states: “The leaders covered up then and are covering up now. Dr Goldstein Dr William Harvey, Berniece Mead, Robert Bozzani and their attorneys are fully aware of the seriousness of the many sexual abuse allegations”.
On the Internet and elsewhere, some persons - who dare not stand forth as Alaya and other Sai Baba abuse survivors have done - dishonestly set about trying to discredit people who were much respected when Sai devotees. Alaya Rahm’s father, Al, for example, was one of five regional officers in ‘Region 10’ of the Sathya Sai Baba Organization of the United States. He and his family received over fifty interviews (combined) with Sai Baba. On several occasions, they performed music and sang in the Puttaparthi Mandir, which is the foremost temple for millions of Sai Baba’s followers, and have also performed in official Sai Centers throughout the USA, and in those of many countries. He started the first Sai School in the United States at the personal direction of Sai Baba during interviews that took place in 1997. This is a 501c3 non-profit institution named the School of Human Values of which Berniece Mead (mentioned above) was one of the officers. Al Rahm has told JuST that, when he:
“… called the officers to discuss the newly found sexual abuse information of Alaya Rahm, Berniece chose to resign instead of attend the meeting and face up to the allegations saying, ‘It’s always about something sexual’. Is this the kind of care that the head of the Sathya Sai Baba Organization’s children’s division (called “Education in Human Values” or “EHV”) should have?”
It most assuredly is not, and this typical case of dereliction of duty of care among Sai Baba’s foremost leaders should concern the wider public too which is the target of the Sai Organization, with its multi-million dollar project setting up schools in different countries. With its EHV program it seeks to get into the schools of the world but without disclosing its Sai Baba-oriented agenda - the guru who says that he will rule the world before AD 2022.
That Alaya Rahm withdrew his case reflects on certain Sathya Sai Organization leaders and their bad faith, not on him. Rather, he and his very supportive family who sacrificed so much through many years for Sai Baba and his Organization have had the courage, in the hope of saving other children from sexual abuse, to come forward in a United States court of law and to redouble their efforts to let the public know the truth.
Link to: The International JuST Group
Information on the Public Petition for Official Investigations of Sathya Sai Baba and His Worldwide Organization See also Devotee attacks on the Sai petition and petitioners