An 80-year-old former priest of the Diocese of Wilmington and a 57-year-old ex-teacher in local Catholic schools have been charged with sexual abuse of a minor in the mid-1990s, the Delaware attorney general announced in a news release March 17.…[Continue Reading...]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) in the US has been rocked by a slew of sexual abuse allegations launched against it in California in the latest scandal to hit the organization that is better known as…[Continue Reading...]
The former member of the Nuwaubian Nation, Habiybah Washington, managed to escape the cult, and her story is the focus of the fifth episode of How I Escaped My Cult. The leader of the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, Dwight…[Continue Reading...]
One of Britain’s worst paedophiles who headed a vile cult which abused young children for more than 10 years could be released from prison this week. Colin Batley was given an indeterminate sentence with a minimum of 11 years in…[Continue Reading...]
SIPPING coffee, Serena Kelley takes in the gorgeous landscape of her home in New Mexico. It might be hard to believe but it was this moment that was her greatest ambition in life. “I vividly remember gazing at the people…[Continue Reading...]
Three Americans and one Canadian, members of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect, were arrested in Guatemala on charges of child abuse and mistreatment, police and prosecutors reported this Wednesday. “They are members of the Lev Tahor Jewish community, the arrest warrants…[Continue Reading...]
Gerald Ridsdale, who abused at least 72 children while serving as a Catholic priest, has died aged 90. Ridsdale's offending was central to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, and raised serious questions about the Catholic…[Continue Reading...]
Ushered into her parents’ bedroom with her eight brothers and sisters, the eight-year-old girl felt bewildered. “Protected” from the “wicked outside world” by a strict religious community, she had been brought up to accept the teachings of the sect -…[Continue Reading...]
CEDAR CITY, Utah (ABC4) — On Monday, Feb. 10, a southern Utah man with connections to the FLDS religion was arrested for several sexual crimes. Officials believe more victims may come forward, according to arrest documents. Lehi Rulon Jeffs, 20,…[Continue Reading...]
A woman who was sexually abused as a girl by her adopted father is suing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, alleging a bishop from a Vancouver branch they attended was informed of the abuse but failed to…[Continue Reading...]
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