NEW YORK – A federal appeals court in Manhattan on Friday upheld the conviction and 120-year prison sentence of NXIVM leader Keith Raniere, rejecting arguments that the purported self-help guru from Saratoga County who is widely known as a cult…[Continue Reading...]
After Judge Steven Boyce decided that Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell would be tried together, a new date for the joint trial has been set. According to Fox 10 News, Daybell and Vallow will be tried together on April 3,…[Continue Reading...]
According to a lawsuit she filed, the marriage with a sect member was shown to her as a “child play.” H.K.G. alleged that she was sexually abused for years in her childhood, and she realized this fact when she was…[Continue Reading...]
One of the women who was in the Arizona courtroom to support polygamist sect leader Samuel Rappylee Bateman during an Oct. 7 hearing is now facing federal charges of her own. The FBI has accused Naomi Bistline, along with two…[Continue Reading...]
Born and raised in Johannesburg, Vicente joined NXIVM in 2005. After working as a cinematographer on films like Sarafina!, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Leleti Khumalo and Miriam Makeba, and Father Hood, starring Patrick Swayze and Halle Berry, Vicente co-directed the sleeper-hit documentary film What…[Continue Reading...]
Lisa Talks all the major cults including Gwen Shamblin’s cult, Remnant Fellowship, and a dive into Scientology, and FLDS with Rick Alan Ross, the foremost authority on cults in the U.S.[Continue Reading...]
A man in Arizona made 20 women his wives, including a nine-year-old, the FBI said. He is currently in jail, accused of child abuse among other allegations. An affidavit said the FBI has probable cause to believe he trafficked people…[Continue Reading...]
WASHINGTON — Eight young women who officials say ran away from their group home in the Valley have now been found more than a thousand miles away. Federal investigators say the girls, ages 11 to 16, were part of a…[Continue Reading...]
There was tension, yesterday, in Ogwashi-Uku, Aniocha South Local Council of Delta State, following the reported killing of three suspected cultists by rival cult groups. The Guardian learnt that the alleged murder of one Ekene, a member of a rival…[Continue Reading...]
Religion, self-help, and horrific sexual abuse frequently go together, as detailed by Spotlight (about the Catholic Church), The Vow (about NXIVM), Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey (about the FLDS), Wild Wild Country (about guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh’s New Age movement),…[Continue Reading...]
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