More than 250 children rescued from cult after major raid
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Police said Ishmael Chokurongerwa, 56, led a sect with more than 1,000 members at a farm about 21 miles north-west of Harare, Zimbabwe.
Children were living alongside other ‘believers’ while ‘being used to perform various physical activities for the benefit of the sect’s leadership’, police spokesman Paul Nyathi said.
Of the 251 children, 246 had no birth certificates.
Mr Nyathi said: ‘Police established that all children of school-going age did not attend formal education and were subjected to abuse as cheap labor, doing manual work in the name of being taught life skills.
‘They were being used to perform various physical activities for the benefit of the sect’s leadership.
‘Police established that all children of school-going age did not attend formal education and were subjected to abuse as cheap labor, doing manual work in the name of being taught life skills.’
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