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...]
The ringleader of an extreme body modification cult threw a huge sulk with his legal team when he was jailed for life, a court heard. Notorious ‘Eunuch Maker’ Marius Gustavson, 47, carried out extreme body modifications, including the removal of…[Continue Reading...]
Six men jailed for their roles in an extreme body modification ring which saw its leader have his penis cut off with a kitchen knife can challenge the length of their sentences, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Marius Gustavson,…[Continue Reading...]
Kim Ji-sun (46), an accomplice of Chung Myung-seok (78), the president of the Christian Gospel Mission (JMS), who sexually assaulted and molested Goddess Island, was sentenced to seven years in prison by the Supreme Court. The second division of the…[Continue Reading...]
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