Fallen sex cult leader Nancy Salzman is facing a lawsuit filed by actress and former top recruiter Sarah Edmondson, along with dozens of other ex-members, who say Salzman is refusing to hand over more than $150,000 she owes them as…[Continue Reading...]
ALBANY — A lawsuit filed Nov. 8 in state Supreme Court in Albany County alleges Nancy Salzman, the former president of NXIVM, is failing to comply with a financial settlement with the cult-like organization’s victims. In 2020, nearly 70 people…[Continue Reading...]
Kenyans have fallen victim to several harmful practices in religious spaces, a new report by the National Crime Research Center (NCRC) has revealed. In the research report dated Monday, November 11, there are detrimental practices under the guise of religion…[Continue Reading...]
Anne Hamilton-Byrne was a charismatic and dangerous cult leader who convinced followers she was Jesus Christ reincarnated. She had an obsession with raising children as her own, isolated from the outside world. The group dubbed The Family lived in a…[Continue Reading...]
Children in a 1960s trailer park cult in Arizona were whipped with belts, sexually abused, separated from their families, forced to run naked through the commune and locked in a dark root cellar for days, according to survivors and court…[Continue Reading...]
ABDUL Karim (not his real name) was 30 years old in 1980, living in Pengkalan Chepa, Kota Baru. Life was challenging. He was a father of five making a living selling drinks with his wife and taking on odd jobs…[Continue Reading...]
Say cult or cult leader and one will raise collective curiosity, even from those who don’t believe in such things. There’s something alluring about cults that reveal the psychological hold certain communities and their leaders can have on their followers…[Continue Reading...]
PHOENIX (CN) — A sixth spiritual wife of an Arizona religious leader who sexually abused 10 underage girls in the name of God was sentenced to prison Wednesday afternoon. Leilani Barlow, who admitted to marrying her underage daughter off to…[Continue Reading...]
PHOENIX - Lori Vallow, the so-called "Doomsday Mom" who was convicted of murder in Idaho, appeared in a Maricopa County courtroom for the first time in months. Vallow is charged in the fatal shooting of her fourth husband Charles Vallow,…[Continue Reading...]
As the leader of an anti-establishment cult who built a devoted following based on his ability to defy the authorities, Mark Christopher has had a very bad week or so. Last Monday, the self-appointed Chief Judge Of England And All…[Continue Reading...]
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