After Church of Scientology officials learned in 1991 that a 16-year-old religious worker claimed to have been sexually assaulted, they failed to report the allegations to police and instead arranged for the girl to marry her abuser, according to a…[Continue Reading...]
Today, the Upper West Side is one of the wealthiest and most wholesome zip codes in Manhattan - yet just three decades ago, it was also home to an extremely closed-off and sordid sex cult that courted high-profile members and…[Continue Reading...]
Children of God is a terrifying look inside a treacherous sex cult that weaponized members’ faith to control the flock. The documentary recounts the Padilla family’s harrowing experience within the religion, what made them susceptible to the teachings, and how they…[Continue Reading...]
Alleged victims of a former priest accused of sexually abusing children are fighting for a sealed deposition to be made public. A source who viewed the deposition before it was sealed tells WDSU Investigates Lawrence Hecker admits to the alleged…[Continue Reading...]
The Vatican's secretary of state has dismissed the claim that clergy sexual abuse is linked to homosexuality, labeling it a "serious and scientifically untenable association." "Homosexual orientation cannot be considered as either cause or aspect typical of the abuser, even…[Continue Reading...]
Self-styled cult leader and convicted paedophile William Kamm has been granted bail in the NSW Supreme Court after allegedly breaching his supervision orders for a second time. Kamm, who refers to himself as "Little Pebble" and founded the notorious religious doomsday cult Order…[Continue Reading...]
Like many who read it, Zach Heinzerling was stunned by a 2019 New York magazine article that exposed the bizarre, cult-like control asserted by an ex-convict named Larry Ray over a group primarily of Sarah Lawrence College students he met…[Continue Reading...]
FLINT, MI – A former Flint-area Catholic priest convicted of the attempted sexual abuse of a 5-year-old boy in the late 1980s, was sentenced Tuesday to a year in jail and probation. Vincent DeLorenzo, 84, was sentenced June 13 by…[Continue Reading...]
A court on June 13 ordered a German diocese to pay 300,000 euros ($323,000) in compensation to a former altar boy who was repeatedly abused by a Catholic priest in the 1970s, a ruling that a victims' association said was…[Continue Reading...]
A proposed class-action lawsuit launched by sexual abuse survivors on Manitoulin Island has been discontinued after 29 victims reached individual settlements. The $100-million claim was filed against the Jesuit Fathers of Upper Canada, also known as the English Canada Province, as well as…[Continue Reading...]
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