The Cult News Network

Lori Vallow’s uncle reveals intense moment he saw ‘cult mom’ for first time in 5 years as family confronted her in court

Published July 3, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Chad Daybell, cult leader, cult mom, Idaho, Lori Vallow, murder trial, murders

The so-called cult mom was found guilty on May 12 of murdering her children JJ, seven, and Tylee, 16, as well as conspiring to kill her current husband's former wife. Vallow's uncle Rex Connor spoke to KSAZ-TV about his natural desire to smile at…[Continue Reading...]

Chelmsford hospital defamation case ends in settlement and apology for claims in Scientology book

Published July 3, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Australia, lawsuit, Scientologists, Scientology, settlement

A long-running defamation case sparked by the ABC journalist Steve Cannane’s 2016 book on Scientology has ended with a confidential settlement and an apology. Fair Game: The Incredible Untold Story of Scientology in Australia included a range of claims about…[Continue Reading...]

Church of Scientology forced underage girl to MARRY senior official she accused of rape or spend five years in labor camp while teen was signed-up to billion-year work contract with sect, lawsuit claims

Published July 3, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged abuse allegations, lawsuit, Los Angeles, Scientologists, Scientology, Sea Org.

A woman born into the Church of Scientology and drafted into its inner circle at 14 was raped by a notorious recruiter at 16 and forced to marry him when she spoke out, according to a newly unsealed lawsuit. The…[Continue Reading...]

Secretive Manhattan cult is blamed for iconic artist Jackson Pollock’s death by encouraging alcoholic painter to drink and cheat on his wife with beautiful muse who survived drunken crash that killed art star

Published July 3, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult, New York, Saul Newton, The Sullivanian Institute, The Sullivanians, therapy cult, Upper West Side

Famed modern artist Jackson Pollock's car crash death has been blamed on a New York cult that encouraged the alcoholic painter to hit the bottle and cheat on his wife. The cult, also known as the Sullivanians, advocated alcohol use…[Continue Reading...]

The horrifying story of how young Aussie women were ‘brainwashed’ and lured into a South Korean sex cult to become ‘spiritual brides’ of a convicted rapist

Published July 3, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Cult TV Tagged convicted rapist, cult leader, JMS., Jung Myung-seok, Providence Church, South Korea

A South Korean cult has been accused of recruiting vulnerable young Australian women at shopping centres to be brainwashed and then sent abroad. The victims were told they were the 'spiritual brides' of Jung Myung Seok (JMS), the self-proclaimed second coming…[Continue Reading...]

7NEWS Spotlight: World-first look inside Providence, the ‘Cult Next Door’

Published July 3, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Cult TV Tagged convicted rapist, cult, cult leader, JMS., Jung Myung-seok, Providence Church, South Korea

A guided tour through the sinister caves of a cult compound in rural South Korea where members are sexually assaulted wasn’t quite what I’d envisaged for my first Spotlight assignment. But in a world-first, that’s where the crew and I…[Continue Reading...]

Proud Boys Ordered To Pay More Than $1 Million for Racially-Motivated Attack on Historically Black Church

Published July 2, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged hate group, Judgement, lawsuit, Proud Boys

WASHINGTON– Today, a judge ordered the Proud Boys and several of its leaders to pay more than $1 million for a racially-motivated attack on the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in December 2020. The Superior Court for the District…[Continue Reading...]

Judge awards $152 million to ex-FLDS members in lawsuit against Warren Jeffs

Published July 2, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult leader, FLDS, Judgement, lawsuit, Polygamist cult, Warren Jeffs

A federal judge has awarded $152 million in damages to ex-members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints over abuses they suffered while in the Utah-based polygamous faith. In a judgment issued late Thursday, U.S. District Court…[Continue Reading...]

Leah Remini Says She Was Ordered to Recruit Kevin James Into Scientology

Published July 2, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged former Scientologists, Kevin James, Leah Remini, Scientologists, Scientology

After nine years on the hit series The King of Queens, co-stars Leah Remini and Kevin James had gone through a lot of things together, but joining the same religion wasn't one of them. Remini was a Scientologist for the…[Continue Reading...]

Escaping an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Sect. Ash Sarkar Meets Izzy Posen

Published July 2, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged former member, personal story, UK, ultra Orthodox Jewish sect

Izzy Posen grew up in London’s Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish community, receiving the bare minimum of secular education in an illegal school that still practiced corporal punishment. Even with the strictures of this ultra insular community, he still managed to develop…[Continue Reading...]