ALBANY — A panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit roundly rejected former NXIVM leader Keith Raniere’s request to have three lower court rulings overturned. The ruling was released Monday morning, less than a…[Continue Reading...]
MANHATTAN (CN) — A federal appeals court on Monday rejected NXIVM cult leader Keith Raniere’s bid for a new trial, finding that a “mountain of evidence” substantiated the government’s charges of child sexual exploitation and pornography predicate acts and his…[Continue Reading...]
PHOENIX — Lori Vallow Daybell has been ordered to pay nearly $12,000 in restitution to Kay Woodcock in connection to Charles Vallow’s murder case in Arizona. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Justin Beresky ruled on the restitution amount during a…[Continue Reading...]
With only four years of his 120-year sentence in federal prison behind him, former NXIVM leader Keith Raniere can’t be judged too harshly for taking every opportunity possible to try to win himself a new trial. When it comes to…[Continue Reading...]
Victims still haunted by Carmarthenshire sex abuse scandal WEST WALES paedophile cult leader Colin Batley, who was jailed in 2011 for a catalogue of horrific child sex crimes, has been recommended for transfer to an open prison by the Parole…[Continue Reading...]
Typed neatly on headed notepaper, the instructions for Reverend Christopher Brain’s “homebase team” were clear. The group of predominantly young, attractive women, who had devoted themselves to a church movement they believed was changing the world, were “to do anything”…[Continue Reading...]
A former priest accused of abusing members of a "cult-like" church group he led has been found guilty of 17 counts of indecent assault against nine women. Chris Brain, 68, was head of the Nine O'Clock Service (NOS), an influential…[Continue Reading...]
BROOKLYN (CN) — A federal judge on Monday denied a bid to overturn the forced labor conspiracy conviction against two leaders of a Bay Area company that sold ritualized sex acts as a form of meditation. Nicole Daedone, 57, and…[Continue Reading...]
BROOKLYN (CN) — Two leaders of a Bay Area company that sold ritualized sex acts as a form of meditation say their forced labor conspiracy conviction was based on an unconstitutional prosecution, accusing the government of attacking their belief system…[Continue Reading...]
The parents of a newborn who died just days after her birth were sentenced in a Michigan court on June 11. Joshua and Rachel Piland were ordered to serve a minimum of 20 years and as many as 45 years…[Continue Reading...]
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