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November 14, 2000 VNN6420 Comment on this story
Divine Downfall
FROM THE ELECTRONIC TELEGRAPH
ENGLAND, Nov 14 (VNN) — The guru Sai Baba has left India only once, yet his devotees across the world are estimated at up to 50 million. They worship him as a living god who, at the very least, can change people's lives and possibly even work miracles. But now his followers are bitterly divided by allegations that their guru has for years been systematically sexually abusing boy disciples summoned to his presence. By Mick Brown
DRIVING into town from the small Midwest airport where Carrie Young and her husband had met me off the plane, she pulled a large picture from the back seat of the station wagon. Framed in gilded-gold, the picture showed the couple and their three children posing with an elderly, chubby-faced Indian man with an ostentatious Afro haircut, dressed in a red robe. Staring out of the picture, it seemed the Youngs were shining with happiness. 'And to think,' said Carrie, 'this is the man we used to think was God.'
Sathya Sai Baba: for years the subject of rumbling allegations of fakery, fraud and worse
Full story at the Electronic Telegraph.
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