Sanjay Dadlani (aka,
"Sai Baba Exposed") is
totally ignorant about Alaya's court case and is basing his information on faulty information dispersed by the Rahm Family and JuST.
Sanjay has
not refuted anything I have posted on my
separate thread regarding this matter.
Regarding Sanjay's comment:
For example, it could easily be contested by expert psychologists who can readily explain why an abuse survivor can produce the sort of smiles that Kreydick describes of Alaya after the period in which he (Alaya) spoke of Sai Babas sexually abusing him many times.
It is amusing that Anti-Sai Activists claim that Kreydick's testimony
"could easily be contested by expert psychologists". Notably, in pretrial discovery, Alaya Rahm claimed that he had suffered no psychological trauma that would have required medical or psychiatric care. Furthermore, Alaya identified
no psychologist who had
ever examined him! So it does not appear that there were any
"expert psychologists" who were prepared to support or defend Alaya's position (scans coming soon).
Regarding Sanjay's comment:
"We were successful at the demurrer stage in establishing that a duty would be owed by the Society in the event they sponsored and/or endorsed the trips that Alaya went on when he was abused by Sai Baba. As it turns out, the Society is not the "hub" of all of Sai Baba's corporate activities. Rather, the Society, pursuant to declarations under penalty of perjury, confirmed they are a bookstore...nothing more. Accordingly, we do not have the necessary factual requirements to establish liability on the Society/Book center." - W. Brelsford, Alaya's attorney.
The Rahms (based on their own admission) were not novices to the Sai Organization. To the contrary, Al Rahm claimed
three decades of membership, including holding important regional positions in the Sai Organization in the USA. If the Society was truly a
"bookstore", Al Rahm would have known this. Brelsford
accepted Alaya's case and pursued it for
sixteen months. Surely an
experienced trial lawyer would have been able to ascertain that the Society was a
"bookstore" within a few days/weeks time. It obviously took Brelsford
sixteen months to find this out even though the Rahms were
fully familiar with the Sai Organization and the Society! The claim that lawsuit was dropped because the Society is a
"bookstore" is an excuse, and a poor one at that. It took Brelsford
16 months to realize he did
"not have the necessary factual requirements to establish liability on the Society/Book center"!
Regarding Sanjay's reference to:
"Among others ready to testify to the court was the former Mrs Diane Payne - USA. Hislop mentioned her in the letters he wanted kept secret that describe her having written to him alleging Sai Babas sexual abuse of her then teenage son in the 1970s. Her child was then a student at Sai Babas College at Whitefield, near Bangalore. Again because important depositions were not able to be heard in court, Mark Roche, who formerly had long-term close ties with the most important leaders of the Sai Organization in the USA, was unable to testify. He appeared in the BBC television documentary The Secret Swami (2004): In his BBC interview, Mr Roche spoke of Sai Babas forcing oral sex on him in 1976 when Roche was very young. He was also prepared to state under oath that he had told Sai Babas foremost overseas leader, Dr John Hislop, well before 1980, that Sai Baba had sexually abused him...Yet another strong witness standing by to verify these letters was Dr Timothy Conway, of Santa Barbara, USA, a former respected leader in the Sai Organization. It is a veracity which the Societys directors could not, under oath (unless they perjured themselves) deny, for they were indeed among the recipients of these letters."
I have already responded to this in full. Diana Payne and Mark Roche were
never identified to the court as witnesses on behalf of the plaintiff (Alaya Rahm). Attorney Brelsford would have had to identify Payne and Roche to the court as witnesses, so that either he (or the opposing attorney) could take depositions from them. In fact,
no depositions (from any alleged witnesses) were taken on behalf of the plaintiff (Alaya Rahm). Nor were any alleged witnesses identified to the court on behalf of the plaintiff. How is it that a deposition was taken from Kreydick (on behalf of the defense), yet no depositions were taken on behalf of the plaintiff (Alaya Rahm)? Why is it that Diana Payne, Mark Roche and Timothy Conway were never identified to the court as witnesses by attorney Brelsford? Why is it that Payne, Roche and Conway failed to submit depositions on behalf of Alaya? Such being the case, the claim that
"important depositions were not able to be heard in court" is a blatant distortion of the truth and amounts to nothing less than prevarication. Why doesn't Sanjay provide us with court documents to back up this
lie from JuST? The records are now public record. Where are the depositions or references to Payne, Roche or Conway? I would like to see them.
Regarding Sanjay's comments:
What nobody says is that the deposition taken from Lewis Kreydick is exactly that, a deposition. It was simply "taken" from authorised law agents and was not heard in court according to my information. Consequently there is no question of Alaya/the Rahms refuting Kreydick's viewpoint because they had no opportunity to do so.
Kreydick's deposition was/is a
sworn, signed, legal court record which was taken with Brelsford present and offering objections. This deposition was intended to be used in the court case that Alaya
self-dismissed just prior to the trial being heard and not long after Kreydick's deposition was taken.
Regarding Sanjay's comments:
Very simply, the Sai "Organisation" is un-sueable and can practically get away with anything under the excuse that they are simply a bookstore.
Once again, the Rahms (based on
their own admission) were not novices to the Sai Organization. To the contrary, Al Rahm claimed three decades of membership, including holding important regional positions. Certainly the Rahms were aware of the Sai Organization's structure and could name as defendants whomever they chose,
and they did so. The Rahms also picked the jurisdiction and court that they filed in. Now, however, they claim they sued the wrong defendants in the wrong court and in the wrong country. No one can seriously rationalize that the Rahms (or their experienced trial lawyer) could have seriously believed that a USA court would have jurisdiction over Sathya Sai Baba as an individual defendant for events that were alleged to have occurred in India. If Alaya Rahm wanted to sue Sathya Sai Baba for money he needed to do so in India, not the USA. The actions against Sathya Sai Baba, Goldstein and the Sathya Sai Baba Society were not dismissed due to a
"technicality". To the contrary, to have sued the wrong defendents in the wrong court and in the wrong country is an
absurdity. So absurd, in fact, that it is incredulous that Alaya Rahm ever really intended to follow through with the suit. It appears that Alaya's lawsuit was a publicity stunt at best, judicial harrassment at worst.
Keep spinning Sanjay. Apparently, all you can do is repeat the lies dispersed by the Rahms and JuST like a trained parrot with
no proof to back them up.
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