HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — A former local Jehovah’s Witnesses elder was sentenced to prison for sexually abusing children decades ago, the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office announced Friday. Norman Aviles-Garriga, 45, who was a Jehovah’s Witness elder in Lancaster County, will…[Continue Reading...]
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Former followers of an arrested Filipino televangelist confronted him in a Senate hearing Wednesday, accusing him of repeatedly abusing them sexually by portraying the assaults as their religious duty to the “appointed son of God.” Apollo…[Continue Reading...]
A MAGA youth pastor favored by the evangelist Jerry Falwell Jr has been charged with coercing minors to have sex with him and send him pornographic images. Zachary Radcliff, 29, of Saline in Michigan, is accused of a string of…[Continue Reading...]
SINGAPORE: She was just 17 when forced to marry the son of an influential member of Global Ikhwan Services and Business (GISB) Holdings, a controversial Malaysian conglomerate in global headlines for allegations of sexual abuse, human trafficking and religious deviance…[Continue Reading...]
A Dallas priest is accused of inappropriately touching two children, police said Tuesday. Ricardo Reyes Mata, 34, a priest with the Catholic Diocese of Dallas, was arrested Monday on two counts of indecency with a child, Garland police said in…[Continue Reading...]
A Lancaster County jury acquitted a Lancaster man of sexually assaulting his daughter over a five-year period 30 years ago. The jury deliberated about 90 minutes Tuesday before finding, 70, of the 400 block of Poplar Street, not guilty of…[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...]
A litany of outrages defines this incendiary documentary about the neglect, abuse and rape of children in the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh “spiritual” communes worldwide in the Seventies and Eighties. Maroesja Perizonius, a Dutch former victim of the Osho cult’s child…[Continue Reading...]
A leader of a South Shore religious sect will spend at least 30 years in prison after he was found guilty last month of raping and abusing two girls in the “tribe,” officials said. Nehemyah Smith, 37, was convicted of…[Continue Reading...]
FALL RIVER (WBSM) — A Plymouth man who is an “elder” in the Twelve Tribes religious organization often described as a cult is set to be sentenced today in Fall River Superior Court for multiple child rapes and indecent assaults.…[Continue Reading...]
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