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Polygamist leader offered plea deal in child sexual exploitation case

Published March 28, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Arizona, criminal charges, plea deal, polygamist cult leader, Samuel Bateman

PHOENIX — Less than two years after his arrest outside of Flagstaff, the polygamist leader Samuel Bateman is expected to take a plea deal in federal court on April 1. New records filed in court on Wednesday show that Bateman…[Continue Reading...]

Cult leader ‘Black Jesus’ killed in PNG

Published March 28, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Black Jesus, cult leader, death, Papua New Guinea

An infamous cult leader known as "Black Jesus", who was suspected of cannibalism, has been chopped to death in a remote Papua New Guinea village, reports said Friday. Steven Tari, a convicted rapist, had been on the run since escaping…[Continue Reading...]

Gloversville native’s book to be featured on Hulu show

Published March 28, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult compound, cult leader, Gloriavale, Neville Cooper, New Zealand

There’s long been a national fascination with cults, making them fertile ground for books and documentaries. Gloversville native Susan Ashline knows this well. The Emmy-nominated journalist extensively covered the Utica-area Word of Life Christian Church cult in her 2019 book…[Continue Reading...]

Convent was run like a cult

Published March 28, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged abuse claims, Carmelite order in Northumberland, cult claims

CATHERINE COLDSTREAM says that she is staggered by the media interest in her memoir, Cloistered: My years as a nun. “People used to glaze over when I said I’m writing about my time as a nun,” she says. But the book is…[Continue Reading...]

Kenyans struggle to comprehend starvation cult massacre as first bodies are finally released for burial

Published March 28, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cut leader, doomsday cult, Good News International Church, Kenya, Paul Mackenzie, starvation deaths

The family members clutched each other and wailed as attendants pulled small bundles out of the funeral van. Remains so degraded that a handwritten card identified each victim of the cult. “I did not believe to see my people the…[Continue Reading...]

How a religious organization became Florida’s largest private landowner

Published March 27, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Florida, land holdings, LDS, Mormon Church, Mormons, real estate

Over the course of 70 years, one religious organization has amassed massive quantities of private land in Florida. Boasting a vast portfolio, spanning 678,000 acres throughout the state, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the…[Continue Reading...]

Japan court imposes fine on Unification Church

Published March 27, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cult leader, fines, Japan, Sun Myung Moon, Unification Church

A trial court in Japan has imposed a fine on the Unification Church for failing to respond to some of the questions related to its controversial collection of hefty donations from its members. Tomihiro Tanaka, president of the Unification Church…[Continue Reading...]

‘Truth vs. Alex Jones’: Documentary seeks justice for outrageous claims of Sandy Hook hoax

Published March 27, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Alex Jones, conspiracy theories, defamation, HBO documentary, InfoWars, lies

The pain of the parents who lost their children, first grade students at Sandy Hook Elementary School, still feels fresh nearly 12 years after the shooting. In a new documentary about the tragedy, Mark Barden says that as he and…[Continue Reading...]

Roy Jeffs, Who Spoke Out Against His Father, Infamous Polygamous Leader Warren Jeffs, Dies at 26

Published March 27, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cult leader, FLDS, Polygamist cult, Roy Jeffs, suicide, Warren Jeffs

The son of imprisoned polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs has died by suicide at the age of 26, according to his sister. Watch video report.[Continue Reading...]

India’s Gloriavale and the Kiwi women there

Published March 27, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult, Gloriavale, India, New Zealand

When Theo Pratt saw her sister in India’s Gloriavale outpost last year, she was horrified. “She was just like a shell of the person I remembered as my sister. I was very taken aback, I didn’t expect it to be…[Continue Reading...]