UK: Maoist cult leader guilty of sex abuse charges

[rooster59]

UK: Maoist cult leader guilty of sex abuse charges

LONDON (AP) — A Maoist cult leader has been found guilty of sexually assaulting his female followers and imprisoning his own daughter in a London commune for 30 years.

A jury found 75-year-old Aravindan Balakrishnan guilty of four counts of rape and six counts of indecent assault. He was also convicted of causing bodily harm, cruelty to a child and false imprisonment.

Prosecutors said Balakrishnan, known as "Comrade Bala," led a small radical communist group in London in the 1970s. They say he sexually abused and brainwashed his followers into believing he had God-like powers.

The case came to light in 2013, when police released three women from a south London house, saying they had been cut off from the outside world for decades.

Balakrishnan faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.

-- (c) Associated Press 2015-12-04

[surangw]

isn't that one of the reasons to start a cult ?

[klauskunkel]

brainwashed his followers into believing he had God-like powers.

sounds just like the Kim dynasty in N. Korea

[fvw53]

According to an article in the New York Times of 1994, Mao Tse Tung was still worse ...He refused even to be treated for a sexually transmitted disease, though he knew he was spreading it to the numerous young women who shared his bed.

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/02/world/the-tyrant-mao-as-told-by-his-doctor.html?pagewanted=all