HARRISBURG — Attorney General Dave Sunday announced that Shaun Sheffer has been sentenced to 14 to 34 years in prison for sexually assaulting a pre-teen child, beginning when the victim was seven years old. Sheffer, 47, of Harmony, was previously…[Continue Reading...]
Teak Brockbank was sentenced to three years in federal prison for threatening to kill then-Secretary of State Katie Hobbs in 2022. Photo via FBI/Justice Department A Colorado man who wrote online about how he had the right to execute then-Secretary…[Continue Reading...]
The last man to be sentenced for aiding cult leader Samuel Bateman with transporting children for sex acts in Arizona wept as he accepted responsibility for handing over his wives and underage daughters to the self-proclaimed prophet who sexually abused…[Continue Reading...]
An Ogun Special Anti-Cultism Court sitting in Abeokuta, yesterday sentenced a 35- year-old man, Timileyin Afolayan, to 10 years in prison for belonging to a secret cult group. The convict, who resides at number 26, Bajomo Ijaye Ojokoro, Lagos state,…[Continue Reading...]
A Jehovah’s Witness member from Philadelphia who sexually assaulted a 4-year-old child has been sentenced to up to four years in prison, Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced Friday, Jan. 31. David Balosa, 62, was convicted in September 2024 of…[Continue Reading...]
The Supreme Court has upheld a 17-year prison sentence for Jeong Myeong-seok, the leader of a controversial religious organization known as Jesus Morning Star or JMS, who was convicted of sexually assaulting several female followers. The Supreme Court delivered the…[Continue Reading...]
CANTON, Ga. (Court TV) — A Tennessee woman was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after being convicted in Georgia for the stabbing death of her 13-month-old daughter. In November, a jury found 24-year-old Chloe Driver guilty but…[Continue Reading...]
A Kerikeri man who abused six boys in repeated, premeditated offending while he was part of an underground sect has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. William Stephen Easton, known as Bill Easton, has been sentenced in the Kaikohe…[Continue Reading...]
An ABC News investigation into the 2x2 Church, a Christian sect so secretive most people have never heard of it, has uncovered allegations of child sexual abuse and coverups.[Continue Reading...]
Naomi Bistline was sentenced Monday in a Phoenix federal courtroom in connection with the exploitation of girls by a self-proclaimed leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bistline, 26, pleaded guilty in August to conspiracy to…[Continue Reading...]
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