» 41 Wednesday: Jam Night featuring Parker Bradley of Last Free Exit & Greg Tivis $ 3 cover Thursday: Karaoke Night $ 3 cover FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE: Big Otis f 12 cover FiiDR Where real musicians play! 201 W. 26tk Street, Downtown Bryan 775-7735 Page 2 STATE Puesday,June 13,3 luesday. Jane 13.2 THE BATTALION Hare Krishnas sued for child abus DALLAS (AP) — More than three dozen former students of Hare Krishna boarding schools have filed a $400 million lawsuit against leaders of the religious community, alleging years of sexual, physical and emotional torture. The 44 plaintiffs in the suit allege child abuse over two decades at boarding schools in the Unit ed States and India. The federal suit, filed Monday morning in Dallas, names the International Society of Krishna Con sciousness (1SKCON) as lead defendant, along with 17 members of the group's governing board of top leaders and the estate of the movement's founder, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Plaintiffs' attorney Windle Turley called the abuse "the most unthinkable abuse and maltreatment of lit tle children we have seen. It includes rape, sexual abuse, physical torture and emotional terror of chil dren as young as three years of age." Anuttama, a Hare Krishna spokesperson, said the organization planned to comment on the law suit Monday. Turley said the abuse started in 19721 ISKCON's first school in Dallas, and continuedij other U.S. schools and two in India. He said he believes more than halfofthechi in the schools were victimized. "We believe the facts, as they are developed,! reveal more than 1,000 child victims, many oh have already taken their own lives or are todaye tionally and socially dysfunctional," said Tinj whose Dallas law firm won millions in a sex a case against the Catholic Church. £c>c>Io