CultNEWS101 Articles: 12/16/2025
Patrick Ryan
Australia, The Two by Twos, The Church With No Name, Legal, Jehovah’s Witness, Manosphere, MLM
ABC: Hotline claims to have identified more than 200 alleged historical child abuse offenders in secretive Christian sect
"Jillian Hishon spent 38 years of her life in a secretive sect before she was silenced and removed for marrying an outsider.
Very little is known about the group, which goes by various names including The Two by Twos or The Church With No Name.
But with an intimate knowledge of the inner workings of this fundamentalist Christian sect that operates without formal governance, Ms Hishon has devoted hundreds of hours listening to an estimated 280 victims of historical child sexual abuse from within the church she grew up in.
Her hotline, The Brave Truth, was set up in 2023 and claims to have identified over 200 alleged perpetrators across Australia and New Zealand."
"A Jehovah’s Witnesses father has been ordered to pay $1.5 million dollars to his daughter who he sexually abused, in a historic payout which survivors hope will “shine a light” on decades of abuse within the church.
The woman – only identified by the pseudonym BDS2 – lodged a compensation claim of just $300,000 in the NSW Supreme Court against her father, who sexually abused while the family was in the church when she was 17 years old.
However, NSW Supreme Court Justice Richard Weinstein ruled the victim, now aged 52, was entitled to damages of $1,495,395 last month.
The amount included past and future economic loss, as she had left her job due to PTSD suffered as a result of her abuse.
The court heard how the victim reported the abuse to the church elders in 1989, who then told her father.
Her father confronted her, slapping her so hard she hit her head and body on a brick wall behind her.
The elders then conducted a “Judicial Committee Hearing” where her father told the group the victim had “seduced him”."
" ... [T]attooed tradies travel the world, promoting a luxurious lifestyle they say offers untold freedom.
They call themselves “warriors” — members of an international multi-level-marketing scheme selling expensive machines they claim can cure kidney disease.
But behind the curated video feeds and paid ads from poolside villas, a battle is brewing between the multi-million-dollar company they’re promoting, the regulators, and a grassroots campaign sounding the alarm on predatory sales tactics.
One of Australia’s largest multi-level-marketing schemes is shifting its target audience to tradies, but critics argue its business model relies on predatory recruitment tactics."
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