A sex cult leader who brainwashed and abused children can be moved to an open prison, the Parole Board has said. Colin Batley was jailed in 2011 after being found guilty of 35 offences relating to being a molester and…[Continue Reading...]
WARNING: CONFRONTING CONTENT Elizabeth Rose Struhs had just finished grade three at school and like any child was looking forward to the holidays. But the eight-year-old never made it to grade four. Sign up to The Nightly's newsletters. Get the…[Continue Reading...]
The sister of a young girl killed at the hands of religious fanatics – who left her to suffer and die for days after her insulin was taken away – says justice has been delivered for her “bright girl with…[Continue Reading...]
Members of a religious cult found guilty of killing a Queensland girl have been asked by a judge to consider having psychiatric evaluation before they are sentenced. Eight-year-old diabetic Elizabeth Struhs died in January 2022 while lying on a mattress…[Continue Reading...]
A racketeering conspiracy, sex cult allegations, financial crimes and fraud? Anyone familiar with the first season of the investigative podcast series "Escaping NXIVM" will know that all of these crimes were committed by one group that rose and fell within…[Continue Reading...]
Four men who an indictment claims espouse neo-Nazi beliefs have been charged with child exploitation in a case in which they coerced 16 children — including two in San Bernardino County — to create child pornography and other images showing…[Continue Reading...]
Two bereaved parents and 12 fellow members of an Australian religious congregation accused of killing an 8-year-old girl by withholding her diabetes medication were found guilty on Wednesday of manslaughter. Elizabeth Rose Struhs died on Jan. 7, 2022 at her…[Continue Reading...]
KIRTLAND, Ohio — January 2025 marks 35 years since the gruesome discovery of the bodies of a family of five from under a local barn. The case, known as the Kirtland Cult Killings, was the worst mass murder in the…[Continue Reading...]
An Ogun Special Anti-Cultism Court in Abeokuta yesterday sentenced a 36-year-old man, Oluwole Olushola, to seven years imprisonment for belonging to a secret cult. Olushola of no fixed address was convicted on a two-count charge of membership of an unlawful…[Continue Reading...]
Samuel Bateman, a self-declared prophet, was recently sentenced to 50 years in federal prison after acknowledging in a plea agreement that he had spiritually married 20 wives, including 10 underage girls. His intent in marrying the children, he admitted, “was…[Continue Reading...]
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