Cult leader Samuel Bateman is serving 50 years behind bars after acquiring 20 "wives" – some as young as nine years old. Despite the depravity of his crimes, he continues to wield his sinister influence from his prison cell. Indeed,…[Continue Reading...]
A psychic scammer who defrauded victims over two decades through fake blessings to combat curses and evil spirits has admitted running off with hundreds of thousands of dollars. Maria Williams robbed people of significant savings and led to one woman…[Continue Reading...]
ACatholic priest from Nigeria has been found guilty by a Texas court of sexually abusing several women under his spiritual care, a felony crime in that state. Fr. Anthony Odiong, a priest of the Diocese of Uyo, Nigeria, had been…[Continue Reading...]
A twisted Ohio polygamist has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for ordering her husband and four of her lovers to torture another one of her boyfriends in a sick revenge plot. Martina Esqueda, 29, was slapped with the…[Continue Reading...]
Taipei, May 12 (CNA) The Taipei District Court on Tuesday sentenced 13 people in connection with the death of a woman whose body was found at the meeting place of a Buddhist group in the city's Daan District in 2024.…[Continue Reading...]
The survivors of a school shooting are speaking out against the neo-Nazi leader whose writing inspired the killer — in the hopes he’ll get a heavy sentence for trying to plan a terror attack against minority and Jewish children in…[Continue Reading...]
Allison Mack went from being a star on the CW series Smallville to facing sex trafficking charges for her role in what one former devotee described as a "cult." In 2006 — at the height of her Smallville fame —…[Continue Reading...]
SEOUL, April 28 (AJP) - Former first lady Kim Keon Hee was sentenced on Tuesday to four years in prison on multiple charges in an appellate ruling, more than twice the 20-month sentence handed down in the first trial. In…[Continue Reading...]
Nathan Chasing Horse has been sentenced to life in prison for sexually assaulting Indigenous women and girls. A Nevada judge gave the "Dances With Wolves" actor his sentence Monday. A jury had previously convicted him of 13 charges, mostly related…[Continue Reading...]
BROOKLYN (CN) — The founder and former CEO of orgasmic meditation group OneTaste, which has been denounced as a “sex cult” by some former employees, was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison for a yearslong scheme that a federal…[Continue Reading...]
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