Rabbi Menachem Yaveh, 51, was arrested this week on suspicion of leading a cult in Jerusalem and sexually abusing boys who were part of the cult. Yaveh is a student of Rabbi Eliezer Berland and father of 17 children. At…[Continue Reading...]
A Reading man will serve up to 46 years in prison amid the Pennsylvania Attorney General‘s investigation into alleged sexual abuse of Jehovah’s Witnesses congregation members. Luis Manuel Ayala-Velasquez, 56, was arrested last year after a grand jury investigation where…[Continue Reading...]
An Indian-origin cult leader, who refers to himself as "god on Earth", has been fined eight million pounds for sexual abuse and financial exploitation. Baba Rajinder Kalia, who claims himself as a "living god" has been accused of sexually abusing…[Continue Reading...]
Disturbing allegations of child sex abuse within a secretive religious sect of Christianity are being brought to light after several former members came forward to share their stories. The sect is known as the Two by Twos (2x2) or The…[Continue Reading...]
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The FBI is investigating a religious sect that's facing widespread allegations of child sex abuse. They're called the Two by Twos (2x2) or The Church with No Name - and there's a following here in the…[Continue Reading...]
A woman who was a victim of sexual violence as a child and teenager has spoken for the first time of the abuse - and how the secretive sect she was raised in turned a blind eye and later condoned…[Continue Reading...]
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A Brownsville priest was indicted on several child sex crimes, records show. Fernando Gonzalez Ortega, who was serving as a priest at St. Luke’s Catholic Church in Brownsville at the time of his arrest, was indicted…[Continue Reading...]
TAKAMATSU (Kyodo) -- But gradually realizing that what was happening to her was not right, Eicho took action. She called a women's hotline for advice in 2015. Then in May 2017, she saw a TV press conference held by Japanese…[Continue Reading...]
TAKAMATSU (Kyodo) -- A Japanese Buddhist nun has stepped forward to allege that she was brainwashed and sexually violated by the chief priest of a major sect's temple for over a decade, shocking the country's religious establishment. The news made…[Continue Reading...]
An American minister of a global secretive sect who was outed as a paedophile and sexual predator after his death had visited New Zealand multiple times to attend the religious group's annual gatherings. Amy Williams has the story. Listen to…[Continue Reading...]
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