All Entries Tagged With: "charges"
Special prosecutor gets go-ahead to weigh Bountiful, B.C. polygamy charges
A special prosecutor looking into potential crimes linked to the community of Bountiful, British Columbia, now has the mandate to weigh polygamy charges after the Canadian province decided a recent court ruling is strong enough to make them stick.
The sect in Bountiful is the Canadian branch of the Fundamentalist Church of [...]
Opus Dei members in French court on abuse charges
Two members of the secretive Roman Catholic society Opus Dei were due in a Paris court Thursday accused of subjecting a disciple to years of abuse.
Catherine Tissier says she was forced to work 14-hour days and brainwashed, resulting in charges of “undignified punishment” and illegal employment.
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Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs convicted of child sexual assault charges
A Texas juryhas convicted polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs of child sexual assault Thursday in a case stemming from two young followers he took as brides in what his church calls “spiritual marriages.”
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Some charges dismissed against alleged cult leader Peter Moses
A judge has dismissed four charges against a suspected ‘cult’ leader who is charged in connection with the death of a 5-year-old boy and his ex-girlfriend.
But Peter Moses Jr. may still face the death penalty in connection with the deaths of 5-year-old Jadon Higganbothan and 28-year-old Antoinetta McKoy.
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Geert Wilders acquitted of all charges
A court in Amsterdam has acquitted MP Geert Wilders of charges of inciting hatred and insulting Muslims as a group.
The charges had been brought by individuals who felt they had been discriminated against by the anti-Islam nationalist MP.
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Women plead not guilty to child endangerment charges in death of 8-year-old girl
Two women pleaded not guilty to charges of child endangerment a week after an 8-year-old was found dead in their apartment from severe malnutrition and an untreated broken leg and her injured and emaciated siblings were removed alive.
The women, who were both born in Haiti but came to the U.S. at a young [...]