Who protected whom. Under each name are the people they gave a platform to, defended, reinstated, concealed or shielded from investigation. Every link rests on a sourced entry in the enabler's own record, and its badge shows how far that entry is established. A link is a claim about the enabler; it says no more than its evidence shows. Methodology
Dhanurdhara SwamiReported allegationMadhuha dasa wrote in 2022 that in 1995 Bir Krishna Goswami, after interviewing two former Vrindavan gurukula students, dismissed their testimony about Dhanurdhara Swami as "99% fabrication" and said "It is not going past me". A single account. · 1995Evidence
Lokanath SwamiReported allegationIn 1997 sent the GBC a confidential summary of the case calling the touching "accidental" and asked members to erase it; the GBC's 2022 panel said the GBC's 1997 ratification appears to rest on that summary rather than the full evidence. · 1997Evidence
Kesava Bharati Dasa GoswamiReported allegationCo-petitioned the review that set aside the CPO's 2023 child-abuse finding against Kesava Bharati, reworked the appeal, and wrote to three ISKCON committees to have his restrictions lifted (by his supporters' own account). · 2026Evidence
Sri Galima DasaReported allegationThe 2016 documentary Cost of Silence indicates that in the 1980s he opposed Sri Galima dasa's removal from New Vrindaban; he denies it, and ISKCON said the film makes the claim "without conclusive evidence".Evidence
Lokanath SwamiReported allegationIn a 1998 email to the child-protection office's director he opposed listing Lokanath Swami "along with all the other offenders" ("smacks of vigilantee-ism") and called the touching "one time, one stroke"; he had documented Lokanath Swami's 1993 testimony, which mentions the private area. · 1998Evidence
Lokanath SwamiDocumented allegationAs GBC Executive Committee chair in 2021, steered the reopened case to a GBC-appointed panel instead of the child-protection office's review named in May, and did not agree to the office's proposal to take the case up afterwards (in his own recorded words). · 2021Evidence
Kesava Bharati Dasa GoswamiReported allegationSet aside the 2023 finding that he sexually abused a ten-year-old girl, on procedural grounds and without re-examining the evidence; his restrictions on leadership, teaching and initiating were then lifted (reported, review not published). · 2026Evidence
Kesava Bharati Dasa GoswamiISKCON findingAsked the child-protection office to let him live at an ISKCON facility days after it found him responsible for child sexual abuse; the panel agreed, with concern about "the message this will send to the victim". · 2023Evidence
Laxmimoni DasiReported allegationAs a GBC member in 2018, wrote publicly that the child-protection ruling on her needed judicial review for lack of fair process; said he never claimed she was innocent. · 2018–2022Evidence
Bhakti Vidya Purna SwamiReported allegationEndorsed him publicly (a critic's article in 2012 says he "openly endorses BVPS"); in December 2022 apologised "for the ways in which I unknowingly and unwittingly contributed to endorsing someone who harmed children", while denying he knew of the sexual abuse. · 2012–2022Evidence
Satadhanya DasaISKCON findingKept him in a prominent position in Mayapur after his abuse of boys became known; ISKCON's child-protection office found in 2000 that this protection "went beyond what can be explained by naivete, ignorance, or simple forgiveness". · 1991–1999Evidence
Kirtanananda SwamiDocumented allegationIn April 1986 sent Kirtanananda a letter about him, which he said he had refused to read after the first lines, suggesting he could use it "if you want to take legal steps"; a published history of New Vrindaban says it was the former housekeeper's letter accusing Kirtanananda of sexual misconduct and drinking alcohol. · 1986Evidence
Radha Vrindaban Chandra SwamiDocumented allegationIn late 1983 Kirtanananda reportedly refused to discipline Gopinath (later Radha Vrindaban Chandra Swami) when a resident reported that Gopinath had sexually molested his young son and demanded his expulsion ("If you put it that way, it looks like you're leaving"); the family left and Gopinath kept teaching at the school. · 1983Evidence
Radha Vrindaban Chandra SwamiDocumented allegationIn late 1983 Kirtanananda reportedly refused to discipline Gopinath (later Radha Vrindaban Chandra Swami) when a resident reported that Gopinath had sexually molested his young son and demanded his expulsion ("If you put it that way, it looks like you're leaving"); the family left and Gopinath kept teaching at the school. · 1983Evidence
Lokanath SwamiReported allegationThe GBC's 2022 case panel says he told the child-protection office in 1999 that the case should not be re-opened ("grand-fathered in"), reasons the panel majority found unconvincing, and that he wrote the GBC's 1999 Information Release, which describes the touching as on the girl's "upper thigh over her clothing". · 1999Evidence
