Former ultra-Orthodox Jewish principal and now convicted sex offender Malka Leifer will face a pre-sentence hearing in June. The 56-year-old mother of eight was found guilty of 18 charges relating to the sexual abuse of two Melbourne sisters, Dassi Erlich…[Continue Reading...]
Of all the cult leaders throughout American history, Tony Alamo was perhaps one of the most baffling. Born to a Jewish family in Missouri in 1934, Alamo moved to Hollywood as a teen to work in the entertainment industry. Before…[Continue Reading...]
MANHATTAN (CN) — The former U.S. Army private who plotted with a satanic neo-Nazi cult to ambush his unit in a mass-casualty attack was sentenced Friday to 45 years in federal prison. Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York…[Continue Reading...]
Citing the deaths of notorious inmates James “Whitey” Bulger and Jeffrey Epstein, jailed NXIVM leader Keith Raniere warned prison officials he is in imminent danger as a “trophy target” if transferred from his Arizona federal lock-up to a more restrictive…[Continue Reading...]
Sarah Lawrence student, Talia Ray, introduced her middle-aged father, Larry Ray, to her on-campus roommates in 2010. This meeting kickstarted an unfortunate series of events and led to abuse and the formation of a “cult.” At the time Talia brought…[Continue Reading...]
The following story details the disturbing case of the Sarah Lawrence sex cult and its ringleader. Lawrence Ray, a sinister con artist also known by "Larry," finds himself at the center of Hulu's latest true crime series, Stolen Youth: Inside…[Continue Reading...]
In the fall of 2010, a group of sophomores at Sarah Lawrence College, a small liberal arts school 12 miles north of New York City, moved into a campus building called Slonim Woods 9. It was a laid-back college house…[Continue Reading...]
The following story details the disturbing case of the Sarah Lawrence sex cult and its ringleader. Lawrence Ray, a sinister con artist also known by "Larry," finds himself at the center of Hulu's latest true crime series, Stolen Youth: Inside…[Continue Reading...]
Four men who assaulted a Black man because of the man’s actual and perceived race at a bar in Lynnwood, Washington, were sentenced today in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. Jason DeSimas, 45, Jason Stanley,…[Continue Reading...]
As New York federal prosecutors seek to put convicted sex trafficker Larry Ray behind bars for life after turning his daughter’s Sarah Lawrence college friend ground into an alleged cult, his co-conspirator’s mother is demanding a harder punishment. Ray, 63,…[Continue Reading...]
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