The FBI is sharing information about alleged sexual abuse within an underground religious group with New Zealand police as part of its global investigation. Just over a year ago, the US agency took the unusual step of publicly asking victims…[Continue Reading...]
Ophelia Bauckholt was living her best life in spring 2023. A math whiz from Germany, Bauckholt, then 26, was making more than a half-million dollars at a New York City trading firm and juggling a bustling social calendar. Her apartment…[Continue Reading...]
It can all be traced back to a day in 2018 when Lori Vallow, a married mother of three, first crossed paths with author Chad Daybell at a spiritual conference in St. George, Utah. In just a year’s time, that…[Continue Reading...]
Police and prosecutors in Guatemala have arrested two leaders of the Lev Tahor Orthodox Jewish sect accusing them of human trafficking and arranged marriages involving underage girls. Guatemalan police and Interpol said they arrested Aaron Teller and Josef Rosner Jan.…[Continue Reading...]
On a sweltering afternoon late last year, I sat in an ice-cream parlour in Suva, the capital of the remote Pacific nation of Fiji, and ate a croissant waffle topped with vanilla ice cream, chopped peanuts and honey. Despite the parlour’s unpromising…[Continue Reading...]
Freeform’s new docuseries “How I Escaped My Cult” is gearing up to debut 10 distinct stories about ex-cult members who managed to escape their circumstances. In the trailer for the new series, shared exclusively with TheWrap, 10 women unpack the…[Continue Reading...]
The Brief FOX 10 Investigates is looking into what some are calling a secretive Christian sect with ties to Arizona. The religious group is accused of child sex abuse as the FBI investigates deeper. A secret Christian church with global…[Continue Reading...]
'Jack Amadeus LaSota left our lives but not our hearts on August 19 after a boating accident,' an obituary, published on the Daily News-Miner on September 7 2022, read. 'Loving adventure, friends and family, music, blueberries, biking, computer games and…[Continue Reading...]
A young woman who was a minor when she was taken as a wife by a cult leader in northern Arizona was sentenced to time served in connection with the abduction of eight girls. Moretta Johnson, 21, was among the…[Continue Reading...]
Two members of the online child abuse cult that forced children to eat their own hair have been arrested. The investigation revealed a much larger abuse network with sinister motives. When these US citizens looked for targets, they usually preyed…[Continue Reading...]
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