A woman has broken down while admitting to having sex with a 14-year-old boy at a yoga ashram on the NSW central coast. <\/p>\n
The woman, now in her mid 50s and known as Shishy, is central to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse hearing into the Satyananda Yoga Ashram during the 1970s and 1980s. <\/p>\n
Shishy was second in charge at the commune at Mangrove Mountain. She was also accused of physically assaulting child residents. <\/p>\n
On Friday she apologised for failing to protect the children and betraying them by summoning them for sex with her partner, the Indian director of the Ashram, Swami Akhandananda. <\/p>\n
Shishy said she started a sexual relationship with the 14-year-old boy, known as APQ, when she was 24 and said Akhandananda made her do it. <\/p>\n
\"He told me that I should start initiating him in the same way he did the girls. He became extremely violent toward me when I refused,\" she said. <\/p>\n
Shishy later left the ashram, fell in love with APQ and they have a daughter. <\/p>\n
Shishy met Akhandananda when she was about 16 and soon began a sexual relationship with him. <\/p>\n
The Satyananda movement preached celibacy and chastity and Shishy said Akhandananda told her to keep it a secret. <\/p>\n
\"It was always, you [are] a very advanced being, you are a chosen one and this has to be between us,\" she said. <\/p>\n
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