An ancient code – death before dishonour. Their daughter Shafilea refused to enter into an arranged marriage so she had to die. They acted the part of grief-stricken parents. It took eight years: The Dishonourable Killers. Evil Up Close: The Dishonorable Killers, Crime Channel 2013
Drugged and shipped from one continent to another. ibid.
A house without warmth or laughter ... The abuse began when the children were tiny. ibid.
Shafilea told her friends at school that she was being beaten daily. ibid.
Surinder Koli tempted children into his home before abusing and killing them. The horror wasn't over: he butchered their bodies later confessing to eating their organs. Evil Up Close: The Slumdog Cannibal, 2012
He later claimed to police that village elders abused him. ibid.
The depths of his depravity shocked the nation. ibid.
He murdered and raped nineteen children. ibid.
St John's School for the Deaf: ‘He told me to pull down my pants and do it right there.’ Storyville: Silence in the House of God: Mea Maxima Culpa, deaf resident: masturbation in the confessional, BBC 2013
‘They know that celibacy is not practised.’ ibid. Richard Sipe, former Benedictine monk, Catholic sex therapist for priests
‘This kind of perversion of power that can be twisted in this way. The system of the Catholic clergy ... selects, cultivates, protects, defends and produces sexual abusers.’ ibid. Richard Sipe
Offending priests were allowed to stay in the ministry. ibid.
Bob Bolger was another student who was abused at St John’s by Father Murphy. ibid.
They began collecting sworn affidavits from Murphy’s victims. ibid.
The Vatican had known about Murphy for almost twenty years. ibid.
Identified as a key figure who covered up sex abuse in Boston, Cardinal Law cost the Church tens of millions of dollars in settlements. ibid.
Inside the cloistered walls of the Vatican lay voluminous records of world-wide sexual abuse in the priesthood, centralised in the secret archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith. ibid.
Tony Walsh was Ireland’s most notorious paedophile ... The Archdiocese of Dublin had known about Walsh’s activity for almost twenty years. ibid.
It was role played by Bishops and the Vatican in allowing the abuse to continue. ibid.
Abuse cases continue to surface. ibid.
Melbourne 1963: Yoga teacher Anne Hamilton-Byrne and physicist Dr Raynor Johnson found a Sect called The Family. Their motto: Unseen, Unheard, Unknown. Storyville: The Cult that Stole Children – Inside the Family, BBC 2016
‘I’m looking right at each one of you. You are the initiate. You are the cosmic being. You’re staring into the awakening. This is the moment of rebirth upon a new planet. We’ve received a call and great things will be done.’ ibid. Anne
Anne Hamilton-Byrne is overseas during the raid. ibid.
Doctor used sect members in LSD tests: A psychiatrist serving on Victoria’s Mental Health Review Board is a former member of the religious sect, The Family. ibid.
‘They’ve lost their money, they’ve lost their properties, they’ve lost their minds.’ ibid.
The Director of Public Prosecutions issues an extradition warrant. ibid.
For twelve months, Anne and Bill use their legal team to fight the charges and avoid testifying at trial. ibid.
There is a dark side. We also have the highest number of kids in the world forced to work. Storyville: Selling Children, BBC 2018
How can millions of children in the world’s biggest democracy still be so easily exploited and abused? ibid.
Thousands of children are trafficked on India’s railways every year from the remotest parts of India. ibid.
The island of Jersey is a self-governing possession of the British Crown separate from the UK with its own laws, financial rules and Parliament. Some of its most influential figures are appointed by the Queen. When secrets from the past surfaced in 2007 they revealed deep divisions and mistrust between those now running the island, proud of Jersey’s reputation, and those who saw themselves as underdogs campaigning for change. Storyville: Dark Secrets of a Trillion Dollar Island: Garenne, captions, BBC 2021
What about the victims and survivors, what they’ve been through? A lot of them didn’t survive. Some say it’s the lucky ones that died. ibid. bloke on boat
Police search for more bodies at a former children’s home in Jersey. ibid. BBC news
Norway 2016: The country’s largest national newspaper, VG, exposes 11 cases of child sexual abuse in Tysfjord, a small community just north of the Arctic Circle.
A police investigation later uncovers 151 more cases in a populatio of just 2,000 people. Storyville: Beneath the Surface, captions, BBC 2022
In Tysfjord, the population is divided by a 900 fjord, with the Sami living on one side and the Norwegian run authorities on the other. ibid.
‘My father destroyed my childhood … I just want people to understood what we went through.’ ibid. victim
There was rampant homosexuality among the older boys. I fixed the problem. I thought if I’d play around with a child once per week, they would have their needs met. Father Lawrence Murphy
Sex Cult Leader Caged: The evil ruler of a sex cult he was told yesterday he might never leave prison.
Colin Batley created ‘a sick little kingdom’ to have sex with women and children in the village of Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire. The Sun article March 2011
A former security guard who led a cult from a cul-de-sac in a Welsh seaside town was told he might spend life in jail for committing a series of sex attacks on boys and girls.
Colin Batley of Kidwelly, west Wales, presided over a quasi-religious sex cult that preyed on vulnerable youngsters, forced women into prostitution and indulged in occult rites.
Batley was given an indeterminate sentence for public protection with a recommendation that he spend at least 11 years in jail. Sentencing him at Swansea crown court, Judge Paul Thomas QC told him: ‘You may never be released.’ The Guardian online article 11th March 2011 Steven Morris, ‘Colin Batley, leader of sex cult preying on children, could spend life in jail’
A former Nazi who founded a secretive German colony in South America where opponents of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship were tortured has been arrested after more than a decade on the run. ibid.
Detectives in Argentina captured Paul Schäfer, an 84-year-old German, on Thursday on the outskirts of the capital, Buenos Aires. Schäfer has been wanted in Chile in connection with child abuse charges since 1996, when he disappeared. Last year a Chilean court convicted him in his absence of child abuse, together with 26 other cult members.
Smiling and handcuffed, he refused to comment as police officers took him to a cell in a wheelchair.
Schäfer, one of South America’s most enigmatic fugitives, was the leader of a notorious German cult in southern Chile known as Colonia Dignidad.
A former corporal and medic in the German army during the Second World War, he moved to Chile in the early 1960s. He established a self-sufficient colony in the mountains near the city of Parral, 218 miles south of Santiago. Surrounded by barbed wire and electric fences, and largely populated by Germans, the cult remained cut off from the rest of Chile. Guardian online article 12th March 2005, ‘Fugitive Nazi Cult Leader Arrested’
13,421. In 1990 10 members of the Children of God are arrested in Spain under charges of child abuse. Noah Thomson, Children of God: Lost and Found, HBO
In 1992 120 children are taken into protective custody in Australia. ibid.
May 2006: Cult leader Warren Jeffs is named as one of America’s ten most wanted. His crime as leader of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, a polygamous cult – Warren Jeffs stands of the rape and imprisonment of children. But even with their leader on the run from the law, the members of Jeffs’ cult see themselves as faithful followers of God, not a band of criminals. One man’s cult is another man’s religion. Cults: Dangerous Devotion, History 2007
In Spring 2008 US officials and armed guards removed over four hundred children from their homes and families. But what compelled the authorities to take such a course of action? The children in question are members of one of the most controversial religions in the United States. A religion that some have called a cult. Raid on Texas Cult
On 3rd April 2008 the state of Texas stormed the El Dorado compound of the FLDS – the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints – with armoured tanks and guns drawn, and began removing children. ibid.
This is about children who are at imminent risk of harm. Children that we believe have been abused or neglected. Marleigh Meisner, Texas Child Protective Services, re raid of FLDS Texas range
The women have to hand over their children in order for the men to abuse them in this organisation. What they would say is that this is how they have been raised, this is what they’ve been taught, and it’s true – there is a cycle of abuse that creates the organisation that they are. Marci Hamilton, legal scholar, re FLDS
The Church community blamed her, and her father continued to abuse her. Escaping Evil II: My Life in a Cult, CI 2013