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Lansing faith-healing couple sentenced for death of baby who died of treatable condition

Published June 11, 2025 By admin

LANSING — Joshua and Rachel Piland were sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison for allowing their newborn baby girl to die by refusing to get her medical care because it conflicted with their faith-healing religious beliefs. The…[Continue Reading...]

Us’ Mission Impossible Into Tom Cruise’s Secret Life: Scientology, Fatherhood and Dating (Exclusive)

Published June 11, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Scientologists, Scientology, Tom Cruise

For four decades, Tom Cruise has been working hard on our screens: sprinting across vast landscapes, leaping between rooftops and dodging explosions with the frenetic energy and dazzling grin that have become his trademark. But beyond the death-defying stunts and…[Continue Reading...]

Disgraced Smallville star Allison Mack gets MARRIED two years after sex cult recruiter was released from prison

Published June 11, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Allison Mack, cult leader, Keith Raniere, NXIVM, sex cult

Disgraced Smallville actor Allison Mack, who pleaded guilty over her role in a sex-trafficking case tied to the cult group NXIVM, tied the knot two weeks after being released from prison. The 42-year-old actress married a man named Frank in…[Continue Reading...]

Zizian defendants face joint trial in Vallejo killing; cult leader has Fairbanks ties

Published June 11, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged California, court dates, criminal proecution, cult leader, cults, Jack "Ziz" LaSota, Zizians

A Solano County, Calif., Superior Court judge has consolidated the trials of and set an October trial date for two followers of the cult-like Zizian group who are charged with a November 2022 murder and attempted murder in Vallejo, California.…[Continue Reading...]

Inside the the ‘orgasmic sex cult’ where leaders ‘manipulated vulnerable women into having sex’ with investors

Published June 11, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged criminal convictions, cult leaders, cults, New York, Nicole Daedone, One Taste, OneTaste, Rachel Cherwitz

Nicole Daedone, founder of OneTaste Inc, and Rachel Cherwitz, the California-based company's former sales director, were found guilty after deliberating for less than two days following a five-week trial The leaders of a group described by its critics as an…[Continue Reading...]

‘Doomsday Mom’ confronts lead detective over evidence and motive in Arizona trial

Published June 11, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Arizona, attempted murer, criminal trial, cult mom, Lori Vallow

Detectives elaborated on DNA evidence, interviews with the victim and financial motives tied to the 2019 shooting of Brandon Boudreaux as testimony resumed in Lori Vallow Daybell’s attempted murder trial. Daybell, who is representing herself, walked into court on June…[Continue Reading...]

Leah Remini’s Battle Against Scientology Explodes in Court As Both Sides RAGE Over Judge’s Split Decision

Published June 11, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged California, lawsuit, Leah Remini, Los Angeles, Scientology, Sientologists

Leah Remini's ongoing battle with the Church of Scientology has ramped up after the actress filed a scathing 133-page legal rant objection to the organization's appeal of a judge's ruling, RadarOnline.com can report. The decades-long dispute has devolved, with the…[Continue Reading...]

Cult leader with presidential ambitions indicted on fraud, indecent assault

Published June 11, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged criminal indictment, cult claims, Huh Kyung-young, South Korea

Prosecutors indicted Huh Kyung-young, a cultlike politician, on multiple charges including fraud, embezzlement and political finance violations, the Uijeongbu District Prosecutors’ Office said Wednesday. Huh also faces charges of quasi-forcible indecent assault. Prosecutors claim he groped female followers under the…[Continue Reading...]

Nicole Daedone’s Orgasmic Meditation Workshops Promised Spiritual Growth—Employees Called it a Cult

Published June 11, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged criminal convictions, cults, New York, Nicole Daedone, One Taste, OneTaste, Rachel Cherwitz

“Would you like some tea?” Nicole Daedone asked a reporter on June 1 after introducing two employees at the Harlem offices of the Institute of OM, formerly OneTaste, the company she cofounded in San Francisco in 2004. She motioned toward…[Continue Reading...]

Youngest girl in Britain to be charged with terror offences killed herself after being groomed by American neo-Nazis, inquest hears

Published June 10, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Dax Mallaburn, Hate crimes, neo nazis, suicide, teenage recruitment, terrorism, UK

The youngest girl in Britain to be charged with terror offences killed herself at children's home after being groomed and radicalised by two convicted American neo-Nazis, a coroner ruled. Autistic Rhianan Rudd, 16, plotted to blow up a synagogue and…[Continue Reading...]