AUSTRALIA
Sky News
A doctor has denied over-prescribing morphine to children at a NSW yoga ashram where he lived for a decade.
Former child residents at the Mangrove Yoga Ashram have given evidence that they were drugged, beaten and raped by the spiritual leader, Swami Akhandananda.
Practices at the NSW Central Coast retreat during the 70s and 80s are being examined by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Henry Sztulman, a GP who lived at the ashram for 10 years, denied allegations by witnesses that he prescribed morphine regularly for minor ailments like an infected toe.
‘Absolutely not,’ Dr Sztulman said.
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