Women and men who grew up in an insular Hasidic sect in northern Israel allege widespread forced child marriages during a charged hearing of the Knesset Committee on the Status of Women, as lawmakers press Welfare Ministry and police representatives…[Continue Reading...]
A New Jersey man accused of being a cult leader controlled members through fear, starvation, forced labor, and sex for more than a decade, and has continued to exert his control over some of them even behind bars, prosecutors allege…[Continue Reading...]
A black crucifix on the roof marks the house. Behind the walls, on a suburban street in the village of Los Molinos, shielded by thick hedges and iron gates, dozens of young women live under strict control. The women dress…[Continue Reading...]
Cult leaders should be prosecuted under the same laws as abusive spouses, MPs have said. Controlling or coercive behaviour in the home is a crime in the UK punishable by up to five years in prison. However, victims of cult…[Continue Reading...]
Naasón Joaquín, leader of the La Luz del Mundo evangelical church, is serving a sentence in the United States for child sexual abuse and faces new federal charges for organized crime, sex trafficking, and child pornography. The U.S. justice system…[Continue Reading...]
Harrison Hill’s new book The Oracle’s Daughter: The Rise and Fall of An American Cult goes inside the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps and Sarah's dramatic exit from the group started by Deborah and Jim Green. Deborah remains at large…[Continue Reading...]
"Baba ji asked the woman to pull up her kurta up grabbed her breasts. He then started chanting some mantras." There is a thin line between faith and foolishness, often blurred by 'godmen' who exploit people and sexually abuse women…[Continue Reading...]
BERLIN/SANTIAGO, March 30 (Reuters) - Germany will talk to Chile's new right-wing government about reports that it is dropping plans to turn a settlement founded by a German cult leader and sex abuser into a memorial to victims of torture.…[Continue Reading...]
Police in Juja Subcounty, Kiambu county, arrested 24 people following an operation targeting a suspected religious sect operating within the area. The group was advocating, among others, the Female Genital Mutilation, police said. According to a police report from Abba-Salama…[Continue Reading...]
Ten years before his election to Parliament, Sam Carling was starting to question almost everything he knew. Britain's youngest MP was raised a Jehovah's Witness, and as a child was a "regular participant" in what he now describes as a…[Continue Reading...]
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