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Northland man jailed for 13 years over historic sexual abuse of six boys

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A Kerikeri man who abused six boys in repeated, premeditated offending while he was part of an underground sect has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. William Stephen Easton, known as Bill Easton, has been sentenced in the Kaikohe…[Continue Reading...]

Victim who was ‘given to’ Samuel Bateman when she was 14 says she was stripped of her identity, family relationships

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Polygamous self-proclaimed "prophet" Samuel Bateman rose to power in a fundamentalist group after the original leader, Warren Jeffs, was imprisoned. Bateman was installed as the "prophet" after Jeffs issued an edict voiding existing marriages and prohibiting new ones until he…[Continue Reading...]

Retired New Orleans priest pleads guilty to kidnapping and raping boy in 1970s

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Shortly before a jury was supposed to be chosen for his trial on criminal charges of kidnapping and raping a boy in the mid-1970s, the self-acknowledged serial child molester and retired Roman Catholic priest Lawrence Hecker pleaded guilty on Tuesday…[Continue Reading...]

Arizona woman sentenced in FLDS child exploitation case

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Naomi Bistline was sentenced Monday in a Phoenix federal courtroom in connection with the exploitation of girls by a self-proclaimed leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bistline, 26, pleaded guilty in August to conspiracy to…[Continue Reading...]

The Feds Compared Diddy to R. Kelly and These Cult Leaders Right Before He was Denied Bail… Again

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To no one’s surprise, Bad Boy Records Founder Sean “Diddy” Combs had his request for bond rejected by the court for the third time. The compelling argument put forth by prosecutors, comparing Combs to various sex cult leaders, might have…[Continue Reading...]

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