Following more than 250 lawsuits alleging abuse against the Diocese of Sacramento, Bishop Jaime Soto announced on Monday that the diocese will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. California’s Child Victims Act, signed in 2019 and enacted at the beginning of…[Continue Reading...]
PHOENIX (AP) — The leader of an offshoot polygamous sect near the Arizona-Utah border has pleaded guilty to conspiring to transport underage girls across state lines in what authorities say was a scheme to orchestrate sexual acts involving children. Samuel…[Continue Reading...]
A former Jehovah's Witness elder has been committed to stand trial for raping and sexually abusing young men on the Sunshine Coast over a 10-year period. Police arrested 62-year-old Mooloolaba man Peter Mitchelson in August 2022 and charged him with…[Continue Reading...]
A cult leader and self-professed prophet will seek release after allegedly grooming a girl from the age of six. William Kamm, 73, also known as "Little Pebble", was arrested on Monday alongside his 58-year-old partner, Sandra Mathison. It followed a…[Continue Reading...]
A survivor of the notorious Children of God cult detailed the horrifying abuse she suffered when she was as young as five — revealing how the so-called “free love” ideals of the group promoted the sexual abuse of children. Daniella…[Continue Reading...]
A Vancouver Island woman is speaking out about the alleged sexual abuse she suffered as a teenager while a member of an insular and secretive Christian sect that has no official name, but is most commonly called the Two-by-Twos, or 2x2s. Lyndell…[Continue Reading...]
For nine weeks Dassi Erlich sat in a Melbourne courtroom wondering anxiously if the truth would prevail. Then, on April 3, 2023, in a moment she describes as "absolutely terrifying", the Victorian County Court jury finally handed down its verdict…[Continue Reading...]
The FBI has launched an investigation into claims of historic sex abuse inside a Christian cult after former members spoke out about harrowing assaults. The religious movement, which has no official name but is known by some as 'Two By…[Continue Reading...]
A Kent woman is making it her mission to warn university students and others about a religious organization she says covered up sexual abuse she suffered by one of its leaders.Anna Ciano-Hendricks, a former Jehovah’s Witness, helped organize a protest…[Continue Reading...]
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