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Alternative healer gets 10 years in UK prison for death of woman at slap therapy workshop

Published December 6, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged alternative healer, Australia, criminal conviction, Hongchi Xiao, manslaughter

LONDON (AP) — An alternative healer who advocated “slapping therapy” to treat a range of maladies was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for the death of a 71-year-old diabetic woman who stopped taking insulin during one of his…[Continue Reading...]

Lori Vallow Daybell, woman who conspired to kill her 2 children, can be tried in the death of her estranged husband

Published December 6, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Arizona, cult mom, Lori Vallow, murder trial

A woman convicted of conspiring to kill her two youngest children and another woman was found competent on Thursday to stand trial on additional charges. Two court-appointed doctors in Arizona deemed Lori Vallow Daybell fit to face charges of conspiring to…[Continue Reading...]

Tom Cruise Uses Cash In Attempt To Make Up For Years Of Abandonment With Suri Cruise: ‘She Should Have Something From Him’

Published December 6, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Scientologists, Scientology, Suri Cruise, Tom Cruise

Suri Cruise will likely never have to worry about money a day in her adult life. Not that she would have anyway. But after being estranged from her father, Mission Impossible star Tom Cruise, she will gain access to a…[Continue Reading...]

Northland man jailed for 13 years over historic sexual abuse of six boys

Published December 6, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged criminal conviction, cult, New Zealand, prison sentence, sexual abuse, two by twos, William Stephen Easton

A Kerikeri man who abused six boys in repeated, premeditated offending while he was part of an underground sect has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. William Stephen Easton, known as Bill Easton, has been sentenced in the Kaikohe…[Continue Reading...]

Former elder of secretive 2×2 Christian sect sentenced to 120 years in prison

Published December 6, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged criminal conviction, cult, prison sentence, sexual abuse, two by twos

An ABC News investigation into the 2x2 Church, a Christian sect so secretive most people have never heard of it, has uncovered allegations of child sexual abuse and coverups.[Continue Reading...]

Police Kill Notorious Cult Leader In Rivers

Published December 6, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cults, deaths, gangs, Nigeria

Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command have neutralised a notorious leader of a cult group, Ikem ThankGod, popularly known as ‚General 2 Man‘, who was known for kidnapping and armed robbery in Ahoada-East and Ahoada-West local government areas of…[Continue Reading...]

Parents urged to act amid ‘shocking’ rise in Australian teens being radicalised online

Published December 5, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Australia, online radicalization, radicalisaation, teenagers, teens

Some young Australians have advocated for race wars and planned school shootings after being radicalised online, and an international intelligence alliance warns teenagers across the world are being pushed towards violence.A 16-year-old investigated by Australia's Joint Counter-Terrorism Team had urged…[Continue Reading...]

U.S. attorney recommends 50-year sentence for former polygamist sect leader who kept ‘child brides’

Published December 5, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Arizona, criminal conviction, polygamist cult leader, Samuel Bateman, sentencing

Polygamous self-proclaimed "prophet" Samuel Bateman rose to power in a fundamentalist group after the original leader, Warren Jeffs, was imprisoned. Watch video[Continue Reading...]

Leaked ‘War Room’ seminars show Andrew Tate advising men to ‘isolate’ women away from friends, jobs

Published December 5, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged abuse controlling relationships, Andrew Tate, coercive persuasion, manipulation

The War Room is Tate’s highest subscription tier, an online service that charges members $8,000 a year to gain access to, according to Tate, “thousands of professionals from around the world who encourage personal responsibility and accountability.” It was recently…[Continue Reading...]

The parents suspected of the deaths of the two babies were members of the Messianic Jewish sect

Published December 5, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Croatia, dead babies, investigation, Messianic Jewish sect

The investigation into the case of the buried babies in the yard of a house near Varaždin, Croatia, has begun. The parents of the two babies are being interrogated, said Darko Galić, deputy of the county state prosecutor. Parents are…[Continue Reading...]