A mother of three in Benin, Edo State, Mrs. Martina Ikhide, is heart-broken. She betrayed emotion as she narrated how one of her sons, Omonfomam Gabriel Ikhide, was lured into initiation, beaten, bruised and manhandled by a cult group in…[Continue Reading...]
Cults have long been in existence and there are various ways to tell whether you're being lured into one. Anyone can become a victim, says Dr Alex Asakitikpi, an anthropologist and sociologist, who says it's not easy to leave once…[Continue Reading...]
Salema Masha speaks softly, but her slender frame is animated by an inner strength that saved the lives of her five children. One day in March she walked them out of a remote wilderness where followers of a Kenyan televangelist…[Continue Reading...]
The lone holdout juror in Lori Vallow’s murder trial has revealed why he changed his mind to convict the mother last week. Saul Hernandez sat down with Good Morning America on Tuesday, four days after Vallow was found guilty of…[Continue Reading...]
The death toll in a probe into a Kenyan cult suspected of urging followers to starve themselves to death rose to 226 on Wednesday after 15 more bodies were found, the authorities said. Investigators are poring over the forest hideout…[Continue Reading...]
An alternate juror on the Lori Vallow trial has spoken out to share her belief that the convicted killer’s husband Chad Daybell and brother Alex Cox are equally guilty in the murders. Juror Tiffany, who was not on the final…[Continue Reading...]
The government has been accused of denying friends and relatives access to persons rescued from the Shakahola forest. Some of the families affected by the deaths of more than 210 people and the disappearance of at least 610 people have…[Continue Reading...]
“Doomsday cult mom” Lori Vallow has been indicted by a grand jury in Maricopa County, Arizona, for conspiracy to commit the murder of Brandon Boudreaux more than a year ago. The development comes just days after Vallow, 49, was found…[Continue Reading...]
After a nearly seven-week trial, an Idaho jury has returned a guilty verdict against a mother charged with killing her two children in 2019. The jury convicted Lori Vallow Daybell, 49, of murdering her 16-year-old daughter, Tylee Ryan, and 7-year-old…[Continue Reading...]
In 1987, the world learnt the disturbing story of Australian cult, The Family. On a remote lakeside compound on the outskirts of Melbourne, lived 28 children, raised in virtual isolation, away from the rest of the world. Groomed and abused,…[Continue Reading...]
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