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Netflix-Famed South Korean Religious Sect Leader Gets 23-Year Prison Term Over Sex Crimes

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Jeong Myeong-seok, a South Korean religious sect leader whose sex crimes were featured in the popular Netflix series, was sentenced to 23 years in prison on Friday, court officials said. The Daejeon District Court in central South Korea said that…[Continue Reading...]

Jung Myung Seok, founder of the South Korean religious cult JMS, sentenced to 23 years in prison by the district court for raping followers of his church

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On December 22 KST, the 12th Criminal Division of the Daejeon District Court sentenced Jung Myung Seok (78), the founder of the Christian religious cult JMS (Jesus Morning Star, also known as Providence), to 23 years in prison for sexually assaulting three of his…[Continue Reading...]

Prosecutors seek 30-yr prison term for cult leader for sex assault

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DAEJEON, Nov. 21 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors on Tuesday demanded a 30-year prison term for the leader of a controversial religious group charged with sexual assault. Jeong Myeong-seok, who leads the Jesus Morning Star (JMS) group, is accused of raping and…[Continue Reading...]

Korean cult exposed in Netflix documentary has a branch in Singapore, reports Mothership

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A Korean cult known as Providence or Christian Gospel Mission (CGM), which recently made headlines worldwide after a shocking exposé documentary on Netflix, has a local branch in Singapore, according to a report published on Mothership today (October 2). The…[Continue Reading...]

Firsthand: Korean cult in recent Netflix exposé has S’pore affiliate in Ubi

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“When I received the letter, I was so overjoyed and I feel even more closer to you now, though I was a little surprised initially because I never knew we could be this intimate. keke~” This was a line from…[Continue Reading...]

Vulnerable women ‘recruited at shopping centres and brainwashed to join sex cult’

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Liz and Amy, not their real names, said they fell prey to Providence when they were young and vulnerable, eventually believing they were brides of God and defacto brides of church leader Jung Myung Seok (JMS). Providence is a religious…[Continue Reading...]

The horrifying story of how young Aussie women were ‘brainwashed’ and lured into a South Korean sex cult to become ‘spiritual brides’ of a convicted rapist

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A South Korean cult has been accused of recruiting vulnerable young Australian women at shopping centres to be brainwashed and then sent abroad. The victims were told they were the 'spiritual brides' of Jung Myung Seok (JMS), the self-proclaimed second coming…[Continue Reading...]

7NEWS Spotlight: World-first look inside Providence, the ‘Cult Next Door’

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A guided tour through the sinister caves of a cult compound in rural South Korea where members are sexually assaulted wasn’t quite what I’d envisaged for my first Spotlight assignment. But in a world-first, that’s where the crew and I…[Continue Reading...]

7NEWS Spotlight: World-first look inside Providence, the ‘Cult Next Door’

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A guided tour through the sinister caves of a cult compound in rural South Korea where members are sexually assaulted wasn’t quite what I’d envisaged for my first Spotlight assignment. But in a world-first, that’s where the crew and I…[Continue Reading...]

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