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

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

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

sounds just like the Kim dynasty in N. Korea

Edited December 5, 201510 yr by klauskunkel

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