CultNEWS101 Articles: 7/13/2021 (Aum Shinrikyo, Order of St Charbel, Australia, NXIVM, Legal, Podcast, LDS)

Aum Shinrikyo, Order of St Charbel, Australia, NXIVM, Legal, Podcast, LDS

NHK: Court rules on Aum cult founder's ashes

"Japan's top court has turned down an appeal by the fourth daughter of the late Aum Shinrikyo cult leader Asahara Shoko requesting possession of her father's cremated remains.
The Supreme Court has instead ruled that the second daughter of Asahara, whose real name was Matsumoto Chizuo, can receive the ashes.

The ownership of the ashes is being closely watched as public security officials are concerned they could become an object of worship for Matsumoto's followers. That includes members of Aleph, a successor group of Aum Shinrikyo."

MamaMia: At 27, Claire's husband forced her to join a cult. They were preparing for the world's end.

" ... The concept of a strict religious group was not completely foreign for Ms Ashman. She had been brought up in Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), a sect which was a breakaway from the Catholic Church.

In the strict religion, Ms Ashman was taught that women are submissive and obedient. They don't aim for higher education and they sacrifice their lives for their husbands. She had left that group, but it wasn't long before she was forced into joining another one.

So at 27 years old and with four children - the eldest of whom was seven years old - Ms Ashman joined the now-infamous Order of St Charbel.

The group was founded and led by William Kamm, who claimed he was the first person in history who could ask the Virgin Mary questions and receive answers.

"You could write a letter asking any question that you wanted of the Virgin Mary," Ms Ashman explains to Mamamia. "The Virgin Mary would give Kamm the answer and he would write it down and give it back to the person. But whatever the answer was, you had to follow it, otherwise you would lose your special graces and any kind of special mission that would be given to you in the new holy era."
The cult was even worse - even darker and more apocalyptic - than she had anticipated. And she had little choice but to be submissive and suppressed.

"I had no access to any money. I didn't have any friends. I couldn't go anywhere, even if I wanted to."

It wasn't until she read a book, The Beautiful Side of Evil, about a religious cult in America, that she began to realise what was happening around her. From the hierarchy to the indoctrination, she knew she was in a cult.  

After about three years of living on the property, Ms Ashman began having suspicions that their leader, William Kamm, was impregnating young girls.
'They were apparently 'mystical babies' but obviously over time, you see that they're not mystical - he's the father.'"

Times Union: Law Beat: Keith Raniere adds former Epstein lawyer to his legal team

"Keith Raniere now has more in common with the late Jeffrey Epstein than sexual predation.

The imprisoned NXIVM leader and convicted sex trafficker just added one of Epstein's former attorneys, Marc Fernich, to wage his appeal – in addition to another attorney who, along with Fernich, has represented Sinaloa drug cartel kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera.

Fernich, whose former client Epstein was found dead in his jail cell of what was ruled a suicide on Aug. 10, 2019, joined the legal team for Raniere on Friday, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn."

Hidden True Crime: Beyond The Veil: Interview with Cult Expert Dr. Christine

" ... Lauren interviews survivor, activist, and cult expert Dr. Christine. Dr. Christine is the founder of Voices for Dignity, a non-profit in Hildale, Utah that helps survivors of trafficking, coercive control, and oppression. Dr. Christine and Lauren will explore some of the founding beliefs of Mormonism to provide a picture of how off-shoot cults among believing members of the LDS church can transpire and evolve. Dr. Christine also shares her courageous personal story of survival, trafficking, and transformation. Join us tonight for a unique dinner conversation about LDS cults with a cult expert who shares her very personal and instructive story relevant to the Daybell case."

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Cult Leader, Sex Offender William 'Little Pebble' Kamm Talks Life In Jail

The Order of St Charbel leader also wants to start his own political party.

Huffington Post Australia

 28/09/2016

·        Josh Butler Associate Editor, HuffPost Australia

 

William Kamm says that God and the Virgin Mary speak to him. In fact, the man -- who led a secretive sect near Nowra, NSW, called the Order of St Charbel -- says he was told that the world was coming to an end, that he would be the last Pope, and that it was his duty to take 12 queens and 72 princesses and repopulate the Earth with his "holy seed".

It was acting on this belief that led him to being convicted of several sex offences in the mid-2000s, sentenced to 10 years jail for having sex with two 15-year-old girls. Kamm, known as the 'Little Pebble', was granted parole in 2014, and has recently appeared in a new video where he talks about aspirations to start a new political party and of the conditions in Goulburn jail. He claims to have had faeces and urine thrown at him, and still protests his innocence.

 

Kamm claims he started talking to God and Virgin Mary when he was 18. Since then, he says he has had many hundreds of audiences with the two, described as "apparitions". Kamm says God told him of a coming apocalypse, and that he, Kamm, would lead the survivors through as Pope. He would also have to repopulate the world with the help of the 84 queens and princesses. The Order of St Charbel -- located in a quiet part of Cambewarra, two and a half hours south of Sydney, and established in the 1980s -- was his own, a sect following Catholic beliefs but later disendorsed by the church. He convinced dozens to follow him, with a "Royal House" established where he fathered at least 20 children, according to reports.

 

For much of the Order's existence, it was treated as a novelty and quirk, with curious reporters delving into the background behind the sect. Attention was further drawn to Kamm and his sect when the Catholic Church officially denounced him in 2002, saying the order's teachings were "false, harmful and contrary to those of the Catholic Church".

 

A few years later, Kamm was charged with sexual assault, stemming from incidents in 1993 where he had sex with a 15-year-old girl. He reportedly told her "we can make love any time but you can not fall pregnant yet... I know how to make love to you without you falling pregnant." In 2007, he was convicted of similar charges in relation to another young girl in his order.

 

He was granted parole in late 2014, and since then has largely stayed out of the media spotlight. But as the Illawarra Mercury points out, Kamm recently gave a lengthy interview to Justice Action, a prison advocacy group.

 

In the 38-minute video, Kamm continues his argument that he was innocent of the charges that landed him in Goulburn jail, talks of clearing his name and having his conviction overturned, and of being targeted on the inside once fellow inmates heard of his crimes.

"As soon as you're tagged with a sexual offence immediately you're honoured as the worst of the worst," Kamm claimed.

"Inmates would climb up the fence, maybe 15 to 20 feet high, and take rocks, milk cartons with urine and hard apples and throw it at you and excretions at you while you were walking to get to the visiting area. They did this to me many times and the officers just stood back and did nothing."

Kamm also claimed he had formed a new political party "for the purpose of prisoners" and prison advocacy.

"[The party] is not registered yet by the government but the government knows about it because they've written to me," he said.

"It's a political party for the purpose of prisoners. And it's called the Republic Reform and Justice Party.

"It's basically to change the justice system, it needs to be changed drastically, that prisoners are treated as human beings, not numbers."

There is no such party currently listed on the Australian Electoral Commission's register of political parties, but the party has registered a website. Included on the site is a list of policies including abolishing state governments, compulsory military duties and conscription as well as tripling the size of the Australian military, loosening gun laws, decriminalising prostitution and removing taxation from the profession. Despite Kamm's description of the party, only one of the 25 listed policies seems to deal directly with prison, a policy about juvenile detention centres.

 

The 21st policy claims that the "statute of Limitations for crime should be limited to five (5) years. No exceptions".

http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/09/27/cult-leader-sex-offender-william-little-pebble-kamm-talks-lif/