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Polygamous sect member pleads guilty in scheme to orchestrate sexual acts involving children

By Jacques Billeaud — March 20, 2024
PHOENIX (AP) — A businessman pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring with the leader of an offshoot polygamous sect near the Arizona-Utah border to transport underage girls across state line.

British Muslim group criticized for rejecting Ahmadi Muslim sect

By Aysha Khan — April 8, 2016
(RNS) The Muslim Council of Britain's statement comes less than two weeks after a member of the persecuted sect was murdered in Scotland.

Canadian authorities to rule on foster care for children in reclusive sect

By Ron Csillag — December 26, 2013
TORONTO (RNS) Last month, about 150 members of the group Lev Tahor ("Pure Heart") decamped from a village north of Montreal to Chatham, Ontario, about 200 miles southwest of Toronto. Comprising about 40 families, the sect fled just before a Quebec court ordered 14 children into foster care.
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