An Australian has shared a heartbreaking plea after revealing they were “one of the last Anne Hamilton-Byrne child survivors” — a reference to the notorious doomsday cult that operated outside Melbourne between 1963 and 1989. The survivor posted anonymously in…[Continue Reading...]
A woman who was sexually abused as a child by a minister of a secretive sect says the religious group's written apology is welcome, but actions need to follow the words. Amy Williams reports.[Continue Reading...]
A woman who was sexually abused by a minister of a secretive sect as a child says the religious group's written apology is welcome but has been a long time coming. The FBI is working with international law enforcement partners…[Continue Reading...]
The Kidney Cult’s Aussie members live in a nondescript home, but smaller congregations have since emerged in other parts of the world, including Canada, the US, Mexico, and Kenya. Almost two decades ago, David and his followers, who currently include…[Continue Reading...]
Survivors of the fundamentalist Christian sect known as the Two by Twos or The Truth say they are stuck in limbo waiting for the group to join a compensation scheme for victims.The sect is holding what they call special meetings…[Continue Reading...]
Tucked away in suburban Melbourne is a nondescript home. From the outside, you wouldn’t know that it’s the headquarters of a church referred to widely as The Kidney Cult. The secretive group, otherwise known as the Jesus Christians, is led…[Continue Reading...]
In 2007, four members of a doomsday cult, Chantelle McDougall, her daugther Leela McDougall, Antonio Konstantin Popic and Gary Felton, disappeared from the small picturesque town of Nannup in WA’s southwest. A coronial inquest was held a decade later into…[Continue Reading...]
Australian police fatally shot a 16-year-old boy in Perth, Western Australia, after he stabbed a man. Authorities stated that the assailant showed signs of terrorism. The boy used a kitchen knife and displayed signs of online radicalization, according to state…[Continue Reading...]
Maria (not her real name) was pleased when her 24-year-old daughter started Bible study classes, but two-and-a-half years later, she worries she's joined a cult."Suddenly she started to become very secretive," Maria told Insight. "She arrives [home] at around 3am…[Continue Reading...]
A man has been accused of procuring a 13-year-old child to have sex with him just months after all charges in an alleged BDSM sex cult case were dropped. James-Robert Davis, 43, appeared in Waverley Court via audiovisual link on…[Continue Reading...]
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