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Ex-lawmaker, cult leader Ruben Ecleo moved to Bilibid

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 05 09:53 PM

MANILA - Former lawmaker and cult leader Ruben Ecleo Jr. was transferred to New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City Wednesday afternoon, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said. Read more »

Dating Rep. Ruben Ecleo Jr., nadakip sa Pampanga

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 31 08:43 PM

Matapos ang ilang taon na pagtatago, nadakip na ng mga awtoridad ang dating mambabatas.  Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: July 30 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 31 12:08 AM

Here are the big stories today in photos. Read more »

Cult leader, wife killer Ecleo lived under new name, had new family in Angeles City

Tarra Quismundo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 31 12:51 AM

It was on a routine drive from his house to the golf club that cult leader Ruben Ecleo Jr., a fugitive for 14 years, finally fell in police hands. Read more »

Cult leader Ruben Ecleo Jr falls

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 30 02:55 PM

Former Dinagat Rep. Ruben Ecleo with driver Benjie Faran is presented by NCRPO Chief Debold Sinas on at Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City on Thursday. Read more »

'Most wanted': Cult leader Ruben Ecleo Jr arrested in Pampanga over graft conviction, wife's slay

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 30 05:35 PM

MAYNILA - Police arrested on Thursday former lawmaker and cult leader Ruben Ecleo Jr. in San Fernando, Pampanga, some 8 years since he was convicted of his wife's slay and escaping an earlier graft conviction. Read more »

Convicted: the US sex cult leader who attracted the rich and famous

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 20 07:18 AM

NEW YORK - A US jury on Wednesday convicted a "self-help" guru of racketeering, sex trafficking and other crimes for his leadership of a cult-like organization of sex slaves he branded like cattle. Read more »

Convicted: the US sex cult leader who attracted the rich and famous

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jun 20 07:53 AM

A federal jury in Brooklyn on Wednesday found a US "self-help" guru guilty of all of charges for his leadership of a cult-like organization of women he treated as sex slaves. Read more »

Former 'slave' in New York sex cult says founder ordered naked meetings

Reuters
Posted at May 18 04:54 AM

NEW YORK - The founder of an alleged New York sex cult held meetings in which female "slaves" gathered naked on the floor around him while he sat in a chair and lectured them on philosophy, one of the women testified at his criminal trial on Friday. Read more »

US liquor heiress pleads guilty in sex cult case

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 20 08:05 AM

NEW YORK - Clare Bronfman, heiress to the Seagram liquor fortune, pleaded guilty Friday to her role in a secretive society of women sex slaves. Read more »

'Smallville' actress Allison Mack pleads guilty in sex cult case

Brendan Pierson, Reuters
Updated as of Apr 09 06:43 AM

NEW YORK (Reuters) - “Smallville” actress Allison Mack on Monday pleaded guilty to blackmailing two women as part of an alleged New York sex cult that prosecutors called a racketeering operation that carried out sex trafficking and other crimes. Read more »

South Korean cult leader arrested over violent rituals

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 01 10:14 PM

The leader of a South Korean doomsday cult has been arrested for allegedly holding some 400 followers captive in Fiji by subjecting them to violence and barbaric rituals, a police official said Wednesday.   Read more »

Japan executes doomsday cult leader, 6 followers, for sarin attack

Reuters
Posted at Jul 06 10:39 PM

TOKYO - Japan executed on Friday the former leader of a doomsday cult and six other members of the group that carried out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, killing 13 people and shattering the country's myth of public safety. Read more »

US mass killer, cult leader Charles Manson dies at 83

Diane Bartz and Steve Gorman, Reuters
Posted at Nov 20 03:34 PM

Charles Manson, the wild-eyed cult leader who orchestrated a string of gruesome killings in Southern California by his "family" of young followers, shattering the peace-and-love ethos of the late 1960s, died on Sunday, prison officials said. He was 83. Read more »

Man, 4 wives arrested over triple murder

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 07 01:22 AM

An American accused of leading a cult and wanted at home on pedophilia charges was arrested in Mexico along with 26 other people as part of a triple homicide investigation, officials said Sunday. Read more »