A man has revealed how he escaped a polygamous Mormon cult before its former leader was sentenced to life behind bars for child sex offences. Ben, based in Utah, appeared on a recent episode of the Cults to Consciousness podcast to share what…[Continue Reading...]
ALLEGAN COUNTY, MI – In 1975, self-styled prophet William A. Lewis, a charismatic, Chicago-area radio preacher, led a handful of followers to the House of Judah, a communal compound five miles east of South Haven. The congregation grew to maybe…[Continue Reading...]
In a ruling on Friday, Cochise County Superior Court Judge Timothy Dickerson said the state’s clergy-penitent privilege excused two bishops and several other officials with the church, widely known as the Mormon church, from the state’s child sex abuse mandatory…[Continue Reading...]
ALLEGAN COUNTY, MI – Forty years ago, a 9-year-old Daniel Yarbough held his dying brother in his arms. The 12-year-old was beaten so badly he couldn’t take a sip of water. The men at the camp put him in the…[Continue Reading...]
When Jey Rence Quilario was just 17 years old, he managed to convince the members of his small Filipino village that he was their only saviour. In the aftermath of a devastating earthquake in 2019, villagers say the charismatic young…[Continue Reading...]
For nearly a decade, they were at the mercy of a father who saw himself as the new Messiah. In a case that shocked the Netherlands, Gerrit-Jan van Dorsten was alleged to have confined nine of his children to the family's…[Continue Reading...]
In the case related to the "religious marriage" of a 6-year-old child in Istanbul, a Turkish court sentenced father Yusuf Ziya Gümüşel to 20 years, mother Fatıma Gümüşel to 16 years and eight months, and Kadir İstekli, person to whom…[Continue Reading...]
SURIGAO DEL NORTE, Philippines – Randolph Balbarino, who used to be a follower of Surigao del Norte “cult” leader Jay Rence Quilario said on Saturday, October 14, that Socorro Bayanihan Services Incorporated (SBSI) prohibited members from seeking hospital care outside…[Continue Reading...]
CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines – Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa, the architect of the Duterte administration’s bloody war on drugs, spoke about the need to uphold human rights as he addressed members of an alleged cult accused of child abuse…[Continue Reading...]
On a remote Island in the Philippines, high up in the mountains and away from society, lies a hidden Doomsday cult with over a 1,000 children, who many are believed have been forced into marriage. The cult, known as Socorro…[Continue Reading...]
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