US Edition'Guru' Arrested in Sicily on Child Abuse Allegations
Authorities say the group of 15 lived without electricity and in poor hygiene, while two children were kept out of school and unvaccinated.
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A self-appointed "spiritual master" has moved his followers to live in a dilapidated house in Sicily, while he himself is said to have lived in a luxurious villa. Now the 59-year-old Mark Ravikiran Koppikar was arrested because two children also lived in "precarious hygienic conditions" on the estate. Ravikiran is accused of aiding child abuse. The German Indian is said to have led a community of 15 people living in a forest near Cefalù. Childre…
In Sicily, the presumed leader of a closed forest community has been arrested on charges of aiding child abuse.
The detention order was issued at the instigation of the Procuratorate of Termini Imerese near Palermo.The preacher, who was born in Germany, led a small community of about 15 people, including two children aged 7 and 11 who lived in precarious conditions in the forest in northern Sicily.The children, including one with German nationality, were entrusted to the maternal grandparents by order of the Jugendanwaltschaft.While Mark Ravikiran Koppika…
Mark Ravikiran Koppikar, the "holy man" of a community of about fifteen people living in Gibilmanna, near Cefalù, was arrested on orders of the Termini Imerese Prosecutor's Office.
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