- Soweto teens appear for Satanic killings
- Evil triumphs when society
looks away
- Prey Dad: the fiendish sins of TV father Robert Hughes, guilty
of sexually assaulting three girls
- The battle for a nation’s soul: How the
cult of Santa Muerte has infested Mexico’s drug cartels with gruesome
consequences
- Two brothers, alleged Ontario polygamist cult ring leaders,
face 31 sex and assault charges
- Women Arise condemns spate of ritual
killings, kidnaps and jungle justice
- Cult head charged with illegal
detention, faces more raps
Soweto teens appear for Satanic
killings2014-04-07
Johannesburg - Two 16-year-old boys arrested
in connection with the murder of two Soweto schoolgirls appeared in the Protea
Magistrate's Court on Monday....
The boys were implicated in the murders
of Thandeka Moganetsi, 15, and Chwayita Rathazayo, 16.
The girls were
found dead in a field in Dobsonville in February....
The murder was
believed to have been linked to a satanic ritual.
- SAPA
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Soweto-teens-appear-for-Satanic-killings-20140407
http://goo.gl/62bAAk Evil
triumphs when society looks awaysarrah le marquand The Daily
Telegraph April 08, 2014
IT took less than four days for a jury to
return from deliberating to find Hey Dad! star Robert Hughes guilty of seven
counts of indecent assault on a person under the age of 16. Four days — just
imagine how much sooner a guilty verdict might have been delivered if it hadn’t
taken two decades for the wheels of justice to turn.
What a shame his
victims had to wait over 20 years to finally get their day in court. It need not
have been that way....
In response into a parliamentary inquiry into the
handling of child sex abuse complaints, the Victorian government will pass
legislation making it illegal to fail to report information about suspected
child sexual abuse....
If we have learned anything from the Royal
Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, it is surely that
abuse is only allowed to flourish when people who should know better opt to look
the other way.
Speaking out isn’t always easy — and as Batty rightfully
points out, in some instances can be life-threatening — but the purpose of
mandatory reporting is to bring about cultural change.
Most people have
come to accept that zero tolerance should be extended to perpetrators of child
abuse. But if we are serious in coming as close as possible to eradicating
sexual abuse from our community then we also need to extend zero tolerance to
those are aware of suspected abuse, but fail to report it.
How many
people chose to turn the other way when Hughes sexually assaulted numerous girls
between 1983 and 1990? Is it really possible that no one during that time
suspected something was not right?
Had there been laws in place making it
clear any innocent third parties were legally obliged to come forward with their
fears, it might not have taken two decades for the law to slowly catch up with
Robert Hughes.
As philosopher Edmund Burke famously noted, the only thing
necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing....
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/evil-triumphs-when-society-looks-away/story-fnj45f3d-1226877110472http://goo.gl/xcyURgPrey Dad: the
fiendish sins of TV father Robert Hughes, guilty of sexually assaulting three
girlsjanet fife-yeomans The Daily
Telegraph April 08, 2014
HE may have once
been Australia’s best-loved TV father on the top-rating sitcom Hey Dad! but
off-screen Robert Hughes was a serial sex fiend preying on underage
girls.
Those devastating revelations finally hit home yesterday when the
65-year-old actor was convicted of sexually assaulting three
girls.
Yesterday a jury, which had listened to six weeks of chilling
evidence, convicted Hughes of nine of 11 counts of sexual assault involving the
girls, aged about seven, 11 and 15.
The jurors will return today to
continue deliberating over charges involving two other girls after being told by
Judge Peter Zahra that he would accept majority verdicts....
THE shocked
jury looked on yesterday as a furious Robert Hughes walked to the edge of the
dock and screamed: “I am innocent!”
The outburst came seconds after the
jury found him guilty of nine out of 11 historic child offences....
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/prey-dad-the-fiendish-sins-of-tv-father-robert-hughes-guilty-of-sexually-assaulting-three-girls/story-fni0xqrc-1226877270382
http://goo.gl/lhQ5ME The
battle for a nation’s soul: How the cult of Santa Muerte has infested Mexico’s
drug cartels with gruesome consequencesMarch 28, 2014
Saint Death ...
the cult of Santa Muerte has millions of followers
....GRUESOME GANG
WORSHIP
IN a country racked by a deadly and protracted drugs war, the
adoration of Santa Muerte has taken sinister and gruesome forms.
Father
Ernesto Caro simply cannot forget the drug gang hitman who came to be exorcised
at his Monterrey church. The cartel member confessed to cutting up the bodies of
his victims into pieces and burning others alive. He also told how he enjoyed
hearing their screams as he did so. The man, believing himself to be possessed
by demons, explained he was devoted to the service of Santa Muerte.
And
he is not the only disciple among the murderous and brutal gangs and cartels of
Mexico.
“Santa Muerte is being used by all our drug dealers and those
linked to these brutal murders. We’ve found that most of them, if not all,
follow Santa Muerte,” Father Caro told the BBC.
For men and women dealing
daily with death and the threat of death, the attraction of an amoral deity is
not surprisingly potent.
“For most of the cartels’ foot soldiers and
their gang associates, brutal deaths prove almost certain,” Robert J. Bunker,
author and visiting professor at the Strategic Studies Institute in the US,
writes in an article published on the FBI website. “Such a form of imminent
mortality facing adherents makes the worship of Santa Muerte spiritually dark.
The death of someone’s enemies, protection from harm (or, at least, hope for a
quick and glorious death), cultivation of a dangerous reputation, and ability to
enjoy the benefits of fabulous riches, including the company of beautiful women
become paramount.”
The implications of such “dark” worship are
terrifyingly clear.
“With the stakes so high, the sacrifices and
offerings to Santa Muerte have become primeval and barbaric. Rather than plates
of food, beer, and tobacco, in some instances, the heads of victims (and
presumably their souls) have served as offerings to invoke powerful petitions
for divine intervention,” Bunker says....
For example:
* A
powerful criminal figure in Tepito is said to have killed virgins and babies
once a year and offered them as sacrifices to gain magical protection;
*
Gang members have taken rival cartel members to Santa Muerte shrines and
executed them as offerings;
* Police discovered a skeleton dressed as a
bride at a Santa Muerte altar in a house used to hold kidnap victims;
and
* Authorities found 50 victims of a mass murder in the northern state
of Sinaloa, all with tattoos and jewellery depicting Santa Muerte.....
http://www.news.com.au/world/the-battle-for-a-nations-soul-how-the-cult-of-santa-muerte-has-infested-mexicos-drug-cartels-with-gruesome-consequences/story-fndir2ev-1226867231755
http://goo.gl/y6XpeL Two
brothers, alleged Ontario polygamist cult ring leaders, face 31 sex and assault
chargesRob Gowan, QMI Agency Monday, April 07, 2014
OWEN SOUND,
Ont. — Two brothers whose cloistered Ontario church has been accused of being a
polygamist cult by former members, have been charged with 31 sex and assault
charges.
The charges come as a result of a 16-month police
investigation.
The charges come from the claims of seven alleged victims
— all members of the Church of Jesus Christ Restored at the time — and some
allegations date back to 1978.
Judson William King has been arrested in
Oakville, Ont. He faces charges of assault with a weapon, uttering death threats
and four counts of assault, and is to appear in court in Owen Sound, Ont., on
May 15....
Fred King has been charged with sexual exploitation, sexual
interference, three counts of sexual assault, three counts of assault causing
bodily harm, five counts of uttering death threats, two counts of assault with a
weapon and 10 counts of assault....
In late 2012, the church was thrust
into the spotlight when Carol Christie alleged in media interviews she spent
close to 40 years brainwashed, under the control of her husband Stan King, then
his son Fred.
She wrote a book about her experience called Property: The
True Story of a Polygamous Church Wife.
Christie claims she was one of
the many wives of self-proclaimed “prophet” Stan King, living on the church
grounds — a sprawling former ski resort just south of Owen Sound.
Fred,
Stan's youngest son by his only legal wife, took over the Church of Jesus Christ
Restored after his father died in 1986.
She wrote about beatings and
rampant sexual abuse. Other former members have recalled similar stories and
accused the brothers of using them as slave labour.
Christie said Fred
repeatedly told his followers that he would kill anyone who left.
None of
the allegations have been proven in court....
http://www.torontosun.com/2014/04/07/two-brothers-alleged-ontario-polygamist-cult-ring-leaders-face-31-sex-and-assault-charges
http://goo.gl/KbWDpc
Women
Arise condemns spate of ritual killings, kidnaps and jungle justiceBy
Wale Odunsi on April 7, 2014
A non-governmental organiation, Women Arise
says it is seriously disturbed at the new direction that inhumanity is taking in
the country.
A statement by its President, Dr. Joe Odumakin said “While
we are fighting hard, tooth and nail to stop visible financial corruption in
official Government quarters, it has become yet another bone cringing
development, the unwholesome rise in the rate of kidnaps, ritual killings and
accompanying jungle justice particularly in the South-West.”....
“At Soka
in Ibadan, the kidnappers’ den of horror was discovered where several people had
been held hostage. The victims, who include women, are so emaciated and
malnourished. The women victims also have had several children for their captors
who raped them in the cells where they were falsely imprisoned. Women Arise
recalls that one of the women upon her rescue said that she had been in the den
since 2008-six years of captivity and rape!....
“I have visited the scene
in Abeokuta and inspected the house. Even though some horrifying exhibits such
human parts and other ritual items discovered were said to have been removed by
when I visited, I still saw some terrifying things like charms that suggested
more than had been removed.”
Odumakin said her group is perturbed over
the barbaric ritual premiums which some wicked souls have equated with values of
women.
She added that in all three cases of rape, kidnap and ritual
hostages mentioned above including the Ejigbo sodomy, it is clear enough that
women have become the targets of horror....
http://dailypost.ng/2014/04/07/women-arise-condemns-spate-ritual-killings-kidnaps-jungle-justice/
http://goo.gl/fH9WgX Cult
head charged with illegal detention, faces more rapsBy Ador Vincent
Mayol Inquirer Visayas Saturday, March 29th, 2014
CEBU
CITY—A cult leader is facing a criminal complaint after he was accused of
detaining a 33-year-old woman who was allegedly used as his sex slave for five
years.
Casiano Apduhan, alias “Tatay Loloy” and known to his followers as
“Dios Amahan,” also faces a murder case for the death of a 14-year-old boy whose
decomposing body was found in a tunnel underneath his house in Balamban town,
about 48 kilometers west of here.
The complaint for serious illegal
detention was filed by the National Bureau of Investigation in Central Visayas
on Thursday in the provincial prosecutor’s office....
Another complaint
for murder and human trafficking, particularly on the provision against forced
labor, will also be filed against him, said NBI supervising agent Rey
Villordon.
Apduhan is accused of using Angelo Repuela as a human
sacrifice, supposedly for the gods to help him find gold. NBI agents found
Repuela’s body wrapped in a blanket in the tunnel.
Apduhan, who is
detained at the NBI regional stockade, denied the allegations, saying his
followers will swear that he is a good man....
“We want to know the
extent of the damage [on the woman] after she has been detained for more than
five years,” said Largo, also a consultant of the Provincial Women’s
Commission.
NBI agents also noticed that Apduhan’s house was designed
like a prison, since its lone entrance was barricaded with padlocked steel
grills.
“Other doors and windows were heavily barricaded and the grills
were locked. There is no way for a member of the household to escape,” Villordon
said in an affidavit.
He said the dead boy’s father, Eleuterio, was a
member of Apduhan’s cult.
In 2012, Apduhan offered the boy as a sacrifice
for a treasure-hunting activity and promised the parents that the boy would be
brought back to life in 2013, said Villordon....
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/589952/cult-head-charged-with-illegal-detention-faces-more-raps
http://goo.gl/p0rF28