PL-SPP-2022-000016 A. Kukuk Testimony 01.02.23

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Date: January 2, 2023 To: Hawai'i County Planning Department and Windward Planning Commission From: Ashley Kuku re: Special Permit Application PL-SPP-2022-000016 Re: Written Testimony for January 6th Planning Commission Meeting I am extremely opposed to this Special Permit application. I filed a police report in Maui in December 2019 with Detective Galario-Guzman with case number 19-051488. The following is my statement that was iincluded in the police report. "In January 2015 1 agreed to spend time with Robert Silber on the island of Maui where I was then living. Robert Silber is a well-known community leader and neo-Tantirc spiritual teacher on the Big Island of Hawaii. There he runs a community, owns land and has a private "healing" practice. I had some hesitation about spending time with him while he was visiting Maui, however I wanted to honor my commitment. I picked him up and I drove to Little Beach in Makena that afternoon. After an hour or so of being there I began to feel out-of-my-body and very uncomfortable. Then my memory goes missing and I remember him kissing me on the beach. I don't remember the start of the kiss, agreeing to it or it being consensual. I remember seeing the sun setting and then realized a lot of time had passed. I don't remember walking off the beach and to the cliff, I just remember kind of coming-to and wandering why we are sitting down in high grasses and off of the path back to Big Beach. My stomach feels sick even thinking about it. I don't remember the drive home although I believe I drove? When we arrived at Robert's AirB&B in Haiku I wanted to leave but he suggested I come in and he would give me a professional Lomi Lomi massage. As if under the influence of a drug or spell, I agreed and stayed for the massage. Of course I regret this now. And I cannot say for sure whether he drugged me or not but I was definitely not in my right state of mind. After about an hour or less at his AirB&B, time is hard to remember, he turned the lights off and it was pitch black. I wanted to scream and ask for the lights to be turned on but I couldn't. I couldn't speak. The next thing I knew he was inside of me. No foreplay, no asking, no consent and I froze. It ended quickly and I felt disgusted afterwards. It wasn't violent and yes it was so incredibly violent. I passed out and didn't wake again until the next morning. I found Robert outside and told him how wrong I felt what happened was. He gaslighted me, blaming me and before he could say another word to wrong me and defend himself, I left. I cannot remember the exact date although it was close to the first week of January. The exact location of the sexual assault is unknown to me but I do know that it occurred somewhere in Haiku. Two years later, March of 2017, 1 was invited to a dance event at Robert's land in Puna, Hawaii. I was visiting the Big Island and was told he was traveling and would not be there. So I went there to see what was being created at the space. I am glad that I did because I saw how his