My life in New Age cult that groomed children to have sex with adults: Abused at seven and raped at 12, British woman reveals her hell in group run by 'conman mystic' who owned 93 Rolls-Royces By Sabrina Penty Published: 10:44 EDT, 28 September 2024 | Updated: 10:54 EDT, 28 September 2024 e-mail View comments A British woman who was raised in the sickening 'Sannyasin' sex-cult led by Indian mystic Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh - where she was allegedly abused and raped multiple times as a child - has revealed her hell amid the upcoming release of a documentary telling her story. In an interview with The Times , Prem Sargam, 54, spoke of the rampant sexual abuse she endured from the age of six across the three Sannyasin communities - or ' ashrams' - she grew up in. Sargam detailed how Rajneesh 's Sannyasin spiritual movement her parents joined when she was a young child believed children should regularly watch sex and that girls going through puberty should be guided by adult men on their sexual journeys.
'It was considered good for the children to be exposed to sexuality,' she told The Times, explaining how watching grown-ups having sex was a regular occurrence for her. Sargam began witnessing these very public displays of sex at the age of six, when her family relocated from their home in Devon to a Sannyasin commune in Prune, India after her father, who had become disillusioned with his job, sought enlightenment from Rajneesh - a bearded guru and mystic whose New Age sex cult was .
