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...]
Nicole Daedone, founder of OneTaste Inc, and Rachel Cherwitz, the California-based company's former sales director, were found guilty after deliberating for less than two days following a five-week trial The leaders of a group described by its critics as an…[Continue Reading...]
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