Shortly before a jury was supposed to be chosen for his trial on criminal charges of kidnapping and raping a boy in the mid-1970s, the self-acknowledged serial child molester and retired Roman Catholic priest Lawrence Hecker pleaded guilty on Tuesday…[Continue Reading...]
The Catholic commission defending minors sexually abused in the Catholic Church in Senegal Church has revealed new cases of sexual abuse committed by a member of the Piarist religious order. In the Diocese of Ziguinchor, where the accused operated for…[Continue Reading...]
Dr. Jesse Veenstra ('08), a finance professor, grew up in the orbit of multi-level marketing (MLM) companies like Tupperware and Herbalife. “I remember family friends asking my parents to participate in different multi-level marketing organizations,” he says. “I’ve been recruited…[Continue Reading...]
In a 2021 interview with People, Laura Prepon revealed she had not practiced Scientology "in close to five years." "I've always been very open-minded, even since I was a child. I was raised Catholic and Jewish. I've prayed in churches,…[Continue Reading...]
Documenting criminal activity behind the Alamo Christian Foundation, founded in the 1960s by Tony and Susan Alamo. At the cult's beginning the preachers recruit vulnerable young people by promoting personal salvation. Over time the group faces allegations of abuse Ministry…[Continue Reading...]
The pastor of a church at the centre of a £1.87million fraud case has lost his deportation battle. Tobi Adegboyega, cousin of Star Wars actor John Boyega, was head of the controversial SPAC Nation church, which ran inappropriate ‘safe houses’…[Continue Reading...]
TWICE IN MY LIFE I've experienced political realities so implausibly sinister, I mistook them for bad dreams. Both incidents involved my former congresswoman, Tulsi Gabbard. The first was in January 2017. I'd been digging into wild whispers from some neighbors…[Continue Reading...]
Naomi Bistline was sentenced Monday in a Phoenix federal courtroom in connection with the exploitation of girls by a self-proclaimed leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bistline, 26, pleaded guilty in August to conspiracy to…[Continue Reading...]
To no one’s surprise, Bad Boy Records Founder Sean “Diddy” Combs had his request for bond rejected by the court for the third time. The compelling argument put forth by prosecutors, comparing Combs to various sex cult leaders, might have…[Continue Reading...]
Shen Yun Performing Arts, the traveling dance troupe behind elaborate performances that show “China before Communism,” has been sued by a former dancer and also is being investigated over its allegedly abusive child labor practices, which were previously reported by…[Continue Reading...]
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