It was the only thing generations of her family had ever known but, at 19, one woman revealed how one simple act led her to cut all ties with the fundamentalist sect she had grown up in. Laura McConnell, now…[Continue Reading...]
Former ultra-Orthodox Jewish principal and now convicted sex offender Malka Leifer will face a pre-sentence hearing in June. The 56-year-old mother of eight was found guilty of 18 charges relating to the sexual abuse of two Melbourne sisters, Dassi Erlich…[Continue Reading...]
Outside a cavernous warehouse on a chilly afternoon on Melbourne’s fringe, two men are praying, one laying his hands on the other. Surrounded by prime mover trucks being loaded to travel vast distances across the state, one of the men…[Continue Reading...]
Australian televangelist John McMartin, a former megachurch pastor and denominational leader, has reportedly been sentenced to an Intensive Correction Order involving three weeks of community service, after being found guilty of assault with an act of indecency. The order requires…[Continue Reading...]
Almost 20 years after the fundamentalist Christian sect known as the Twelve Tribes started a commune south-west of Sydney, members are moving out and their local property holdings are being put up for sale. The sell-off of more than $6…[Continue Reading...]
Brian McDowell entered the "fundamentalist Pentecostal church scene" when he was 17. His brothers joined the Gold Coast community first and — from Brian's vantage point — it seemed like a positive influence. "I saw change in their lives, so I…[Continue Reading...]
In 1993, teenager Stefanie Hinrichs was dreaming of owning a horse, leaving school, and marrying Hollywood heart-throb Keanu Reeves. But God had other plans for the dreamy 13-year-old. Stefanie's devout German family belonged to a controversial Doomsday cult led by…[Continue Reading...]
As ultra-Orthodox Jewish principal Malka Leifer was stood down over allegations she sexually abused three women she cried and claimed to have done nothing wrong, her trial has been told. The former head of religious studies at the Adass Israel…[Continue Reading...]
His devotees call him Little Pebble; his victims know him as a paedophile. William Costellia Kamm is the self-appointed leader of a notorious doomsday cult that formed its headquarters in 1987, based in a secure compound in Cambewarra, just outside…[Continue Reading...]
He convinced many vulnerable women that he was a prophet, appointed by God to repopulate the earth after a Doomsday event would wipe out mankind. In reality, William Costellia Kamm, who called himself "Little Pebble", ran a religious cult, luring…[Continue Reading...]
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