Nudity inside sexual cults

The cult - first exposed by the Daily Mail in - still exists. While their father, the son of a British Army officer, is still in the cult, the three sisters have escaped its clutches. There is an old, grainy home video from my childhood which I sometimes sit down to watch and which never fails to make me shudder. It starts innocently enough - I am six years old, a small, slim, dark-haired child dancing to pipe music for the camera. But this is no ordinary family movie.

If the questions that were asked of prospective jurors are any indication, the racketeering and sex-trafficking trial of Keith Raniere, founder of the cultlike group Nxivm, may require not only stamina from the jury, but also the ability to listen to potentially uncomfortable testimony. They also may have been asked if they had ever taken Scientology courses or participated in self-help groups like the Landmark Forum or EST, according to a draft of the juror questionnaire. Raniere stands accused of running Nxivm , which billed itself as a self-help group, like a cult, subjugating and abusing women who joined, and former members said, punishing those whose disobeyed his orders to have sex only with him. Testimony in his trial, which is to begin on Tuesday in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, is expected to last about a month and a half and include mention of such disturbing topics as sex trafficking, forced labor and child exploitation. Jurors are likely to hear accounts that women in a secret sorority within the group were branded with Mr. His followers also had multiple abortions. In recent weeks, three of his co-defendants , including the actress Allison Mack, have pleaded guilty to various charges, leaving Mr.

The women would remove their clothes and array themselves on the floor in front of him, while he sat in a chair and spoke to them about philosophy and other topics. If he was not in attendance, they would pose for a group photo and send it to him, making sure that parts of their body that had been branded with a symbol related to the group were visible. That is how Lauren Salzman, one of the women present at certain meetings, described them in graphic testimony on Friday during the racketeering and sex trafficking trial of Mr. The brief testimony by Ms. Salzman offered insight from a senior member of Nxivm about the ways in which Mr.

Fill out the form below, or call us at Allison Mack is currently awaiting prison sentencing for her racketeering crimes in the NXIVM sex cult, months after she pleaded guilty. As Radar readers know, Raniere, 58, was found guilty of seven felonies , including sex trafficking and child pornography, on June 19,