LONDON (Reuters) -British radical Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary, whose followers have been linked to numerous plots around the world, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday for directing a terrorist organisation. Choudary, 57, was convicted last week of directing al-Muhajiroun,…[Continue Reading...]
Convicted polygamist Warren Jeffs, once a Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints leader (FLDS), is now in prison with no release date. Over the years, Jeffs and the FLDS church have become the subject of multiple true-crime documentaries for their controversial practices. As…[Continue Reading...]
Marius Gustavson, a 46-year-old Norwegian residing in north London, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for orchestrating a disturbing body modification cult, where irreversible mutilations were performed on numerous men. Alongside six co-defendants, Gustavson operated the "Eunuch Maker" website, enticing…[Continue Reading...]
In a significant court ruling, a Gloriavale man sentenced to 11 years for sexual offending has faced justice. The man, Jonathan Benjamin, was convicted for a series of crimes against children within the secluded Gloriavale Christian community. His reprehensible acts,…[Continue Reading...]
A former South Carolina priest will serve more than two decades behind bars after pleading guilty to child sex crimes, the federal government has announced. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina said in a press release…[Continue Reading...]
Charles Bameko, a 52-year-old Congolese pastor of the la Bonne semence transmise (Good seed transmitted) church in the French city of Créteil, was given a suspended three-year prison sentence for swindling over two million euros. Between 2019 and 2022, he…[Continue Reading...]
Jeong Myeong-seok, the leader of a controversial religious group, Jesus Morning Star, lodged an appeal on a court ruling last week sentencing him to 23 years behind bars for sexual assault and molestation. However, the future looks grim for Jeong,…[Continue Reading...]
An unhinged and threatening voice mail message left for a Texas congresswoman in May has resulted in a prison sentence for a Las Cruces man. Michael David Fox, 60, was portrayed in a federal complaint as readily admitting to two…[Continue Reading...]
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...]
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...]
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