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Kenzie Cates: the Canadian songwriter who escaped a cult and then made music about it

Published July 26, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult victims, cults, survivor story

For five years, while locked into a misogynistic doomsday cult in Ontario, Kenzie Cates had suppressed her desires to make music – until a friend managed to help her escape last autumn. “It felt like a clamp on my brain had…[Continue Reading...]

Shakahola cult: Victims’ families in agony as results of DNA tests delayed

Published July 26, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged autopsies, DNA, doomsday cult, Good News International Church, Kenya, starvation deaths

Delay in the release of DNA results for victims of the Shakahola cult has left families in agony, not knowing whether their relatives are alive or dead. In May, the government launched a DNA testing exercise for families who believe…[Continue Reading...]

Fans Think Former 10 Things I Hate About You Star, Andrew Keegan, Is A Cult Leader

Published July 26, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged actor, alleged cult leader, Andrew Keegan, Hollylwood

10 Things I Hate About You is one of the most loved movies from its era. The cast had interesting chemistry, and they're all still fond of the film. Interestingly, the film was a big enough success, that it was…[Continue Reading...]

Feds fight Nxivm sex cult leader Keith Raniere’s bid at new trial on claims FBI planted child porn on his computer

Published July 26, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged appeal, criminal convictions, cult, cult leader, Keith Raniere, NXIVM

Federal prosecutors slammed convicted Nxivm sex cult leader Keith Raniere’s bid for a new trial — denouncing his claim that he has “newly discovered evidence” that proves the FBI planted evidence on his computer. In a response filed Friday in…[Continue Reading...]

Searching for Elsewhere: Born into a cult. How to survive?

Published July 23, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged escaping sects, Exclusive Brethren, former member, sect, survivor story

Graeme Johanson’s Searching for Elsewhere (Ginninderra Press, 2023) provides a compelling answer. His memoire, a gripping story from beginning to end, deals with the dangerous manipulation of young lives brought up in an extremely controlling sect with bizarre rules, destroyed…[Continue Reading...]

Grandparents of ‘cult mom victims’ slam ‘deplorable’ Lori Vallows’s cruelty and reveal what they will say at sentencing

Published July 23, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes

THE grandparents of JJ Vallow, who was murdered by his mother Lori Vallow, have given a preview of what they plan to say at her upcoming sentencing. She will be sentenced on July 31 and could face life in prison.…[Continue Reading...]

Kenyan starvation cult survivor recounts her plight

Published July 23, 2023 By admin

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

Kenyan police are still recovering bodies of members of a starvation cult who died near Malindi. Investigators have already found more than 400 victims, and fear there could be hundreds more. Many were children. A survivor describes what happened.[Continue Reading...]

$50.75 million added to settlement for survivors of Diocese of Rochester clergy abuse

Published July 22, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Clergy Abuse Tagged clergy abuse, Diocese of Rochester, New York, Roman Catholic Church, sexual abuse

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Another $50.75 million was added to the total settlement reached by survivors in the Diocese of Rochester’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case Friday. According to the law firm Jeff Anderson & Associates, the total settlement is now…[Continue Reading...]

The Baffling Story of Teen Rudy Farias: “Brainwashed” at Home and Never Missing Amid 8-Year Search

Published July 22, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Brainwashing, Houston, isolation, manipulation, parental abuse, Rudy Farias, Texas

Rudolph "Rudy" Farias IV went out to walk his two dogs on March 6, 2015, and—though the pups returned, one a few hours later and the other the next morning, both off-leash—he never came home. That's what the 17-year-old's mother told…[Continue Reading...]

How you can watch Lori Vallow Daybell’s sentencing, and what we can expect to happen at the hearing

Published July 22, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cult mom, Idaho, Lori Vallow, murder convictions, sentencing

ST. ANTHONY — Lori Vallow Daybell is scheduled to be sentenced on murder charges in ten days. Judge Steven Boyce will sentence Daybell, 50, in a Fremont County Courtroom at 9 a.m. on July 31. The hearing is not expected…[Continue Reading...]