TEXAS: Mormon sect 'underage bride' to leave foster care
SAN ANGELO, Texas — An alleged child bride of jailed Mormon polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs will be allowed to leave foster care and live with a distant relative, a judge ruled Thursday.Texas...
View ArticleIRELAND: Report Details Abuses in Irish Reformatories
LONDON — Tens of thousands of Irish children were sexually, physically and emotionally abused by nuns, priests and others over 60 years in a network of church-run residential schools meant to care for...
View ArticleARKANSAS: Alamo to begin trial on charges of transporting minors for sex
FOUKE - On the eve of Tony Alamo's trial on child sexual abuse charges, the flowers on his church's lush, terraced front lawn bloomed in bright yellows and oranges, deep purples and soft pinks and...
View ArticleWISCONSIN: Trial Begins in Girl's Faith-Healing Death
Dad Charged with Homicide for Praying Instead of Seeking Medical Help for Gravely-Ill Daughter(CBS/AP) WAUSAU, Wisconsin -- Opening statements began Saturday in the trial of a father charged with...
View ArticleOREGON: Authorities say faith-healing church baby died from pneumonia
PORTLAND — Oregon authorities are investigating the death of the newborn son of a member of a faith healing church after a state medical examiner determined the cause was pneumonia and complications...
View ArticleOREGON: Faith healing: Autopsy reveals infant's cause of death, D.A. still...
Prosecutors are still investigating the death of a newborn in SeptemberAn autopsy has revealed the cause of death of an Oregon City newborn, but prosecutors won’t reveal much else about an...
View ArticleTEXAS: FLDS polygamist gets 10 years for sexual assault
(CNN) -- A polygamist sect member arrested following last year's raid of a west Texas ranch was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting an underage girl, authorities...
View ArticleIrish nuns offer 128 million euros [$193 million US] to abuse victims
An Irish Catholic order of nuns who were strongly criticized in a report on child abuse said Thursday it will pay 128 million euros ($193 million U.S.) in damages.The Sisters of Mercy said the cash...
View ArticleNEW JERSEY: Mom expected God to provide food, daughter testifies
The money ran out first. Then the food.Over three months in 2006, as her five children grew more emaciated and listless by the day, Estelle Walker made no move to find a job, no effort to scrounge up...
View ArticleOREGON: Oregon City faith-healing family were shocked by 16-year-old's sudden...
Teen's father on the stand, denies knowing severity of son's conditionJeff Beagley told an Oregon City jury Wednesday that despite staying home from work the June 2008 day his 16-year-old son died,...
View ArticleTURKEY: Girl Buried Alive For Talking To Boys
The body of a 16-year-old girl police say was buried alive by relatives in an "honor" killing carried out as punishment for talking to boys has been discovered in Kahta, Turkey.Turkish police...
View ArticleMARYLAND: Trial near in cult starvation death
Members of 1 Mind Ministries accused of denying child food and water as punishment for not saying 'amen'Queen Antoinette - aka Toni Sloan or Toni Ellsberry - sat at a defense table Tuesday and...
View ArticleTEXAS: Jury finds FLDS sect's Jessop guilty
SAN ANGELO — A Tom Green County jury Wednesday found Merril Leroy Jessop, 35, guilty of sexual assault of a child in connection with allegations he illegally married an underage girl.The sentencing...
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MONTANA: ‘Holy Ghost’ relocates his flock to Montana
Leader says he’s the Holy Ghost, but neighbors remain suspicious…Church relocates to FrombergFROMBERG— A religious group led by a man who claims to be the Holy Ghost has moved to the Fromberg area...
View ArticleTEXAS: FLDS Polygamist Sect Leader Convicted of Sexual Assault
Former Sect Members Applaude 75 Year Sentence for Man With Child BrideFormer members of the polygamist sect that was raided two years ago say they are encouraged by tough sentences handed down by...
View ArticleTEXAS: On a Visit to the U.S: a Nigerian Witch-Hunter Explains Herself
HOUSTON — At home in Nigeria, the Pentecostal preacher Helen Ukpabio draws thousands to her revival meetings. Last August, when she had herself consecrated Christendom’s first “lady apostle,” Nigerian...
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OREGON: Another Followers of Christ couple indicted in death of a child
OREGON CITY – An Oregon City couple will face charges of second-degree manslaughter in the faith-healing death of their newborn son, the third such fatality involving the Followers of Christ church in...
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MONTANA: Bond set for Fromberg sect leader, accused rapist
Carbon County Justice of the Peace Johnny Seiffert set bond Friday at $250,007 for Fromberg sect leader Geody Harman, who was arrested Wednesday on a Utah warrant on rape charges.Harman, who describes...
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MONTANA: Sect leader Terrill Dalton -- aka the Holy Ghost -- arrested on rape...
FROMBERG, Mont. -- Authorities say the president of a Montana religious sect was arrested in Wyoming on Thursday for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old girl.Terrill Dalton, 43, called authorities...
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BELGIUM: Amid sex scandals, de-baptism gains favor
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Faced with ever-more harrowing revelations of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic clergymen, Belgians are turning in record numbers to apostasy — formally breaking with their...
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