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Faith-based abuse survivor and advocate rejects King’s Service Medal, blasts Government on treatment of victims

Published January 1, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Clergy Abuse Tagged child abuse, New Zealand, Roman Catholic Church, sexual abuse

Mike Ledingham says he cannot accept the King's Service Medal awarded to him this New Year. Photo / Supplied An abuse survivor who has spent 20 years campaigning for the redress and improvement of child safety in faith-based care settings…[Continue Reading...]

Paige DeSorbo, 32, opens up on past abusive relationship she endured at 19: ‘Fully brainwashed’

Published January 1, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Abusie controlling relationships, cult-like relationships, cultic relationships

Summer House star Paige DeSorbo talked about her painful past in a new episode of her podcast Giggly Squad, via Us Weekly. The 32-year-old reality star opened up about a past abusive relationship she was in when she was 19…[Continue Reading...]

‘Escape with the kids’: Pursuing the leaders of Lev Tahor on the Mexico border

Published January 1, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged criminal fugitives, cult, cult leaders, Lev Tahor

Mexican and Guatemalan security forces carried out a joint operation along their shared border, attempting to prevent the leaders of the Lev Tahor cult from escaping. The operation follows concerns that the leaders would attempt to smuggle additional children out,…[Continue Reading...]

Dr Pradeep Dissanayake: Melbourne skin specialist jailed for abusing children in cult

Published January 1, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Australia, child abuse, cult leader, Pradeep Dissanayake

A Melbourne doctor used his “God-like” status as a religious leader to prey on the daughters of cult members, a court has been told. Pradeep Dissanayake, 52, had his jail sentence for sexually abusing two children increased to 10 years…[Continue Reading...]

Guatemala on alert as Lev Tahor members attempt to flee to Mexico with children

Published December 31, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged criminal cult, Guatemala, law enforcement, Lev Tahor

A week and a half after Guatemalan authorities rescued 204 children, teenagers and women from the compound of the extremist ultra-Orthodox sect Lev Tahor ("Pure Heart"), security at the border with Mexico has been tightened amid concerns that sect leaders…[Continue Reading...]

A very British cult: Rogue priests and The Abode of Love

Published December 31, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged sinister sect, The Abode of Love, Victorian England

How a sinister Victorian sect operated deep in the English countryside. See more https://www.pressreader.com/uk/all-about-history/20241231/282711937630970[Continue Reading...]

Pins, portraits, propaganda: How the cult of Kim Jong Un hit new heights in 2024

Published December 31, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cults, Kim Jong Un, North Korea

Kim Jong Un, with statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in the background | Image: KCNA (Aug. 10, 2024) and NK News (Sept. 2015), edited by NK News In a year marked by drastic policy shifts, Kim…[Continue Reading...]

My Three Years in a Christian Cult

Published December 31, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged authoritarian chuches, shepherding movement, Shilow Fellowship, survivor story

There is a nondescript house on Brookfield Drive in East Lansing, Michigan, whose address I forget though I remember everything else about it. It’s where I lived for almost three years in the 1970s as part of a religious group…[Continue Reading...]

Archdiocese of Los Angeles agrees to pay $US880 million to victims of clergy sexual abuse

Published December 30, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Clergy Abuse Tagged Archdiocese of Los Angeles, child abuse, Roman Catholic Church, settlement, sexual abuse

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $US880 million ($1.3 billion) to victims of clergy sexual abuse dating back decades, in what has been announced as the largest single child sex abuse settlement with a Catholic archdiocese. Archbishop…[Continue Reading...]

INTERPOL issues Red Notice for Lev Tahor fugitive accused of rape, human trafficking

Published December 30, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged criminal fugitive, cult leader, Guatemala, Interpol, Jonathan Emmanuel Cardona Castillo, Lev Tahor

The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) has issued an international Red Notice for Lev Tahor cult member Jonathan Emmanuel Cardona Castillo, aged 23. A Red Notice is a request to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person…[Continue Reading...]