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Modern Sex Cults

Not even Superboy could save her now.

Actress Allison Mack was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for her involvement in the NXIVM sex cult.

She will also have to pay a $20,000 fine, according to the U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of New York.

Mack, known for her role in the TV series Smallville, was arrested in 2018 along with six other people involved in the controversial group. The cult's leader, Keith Raniere, is serving a 120-year prison sentence after being convicted in 2019.

Mack, 36, pleaded guilty in April 2019 to racketeering and racketeering conspiracy charges related to her high-level role in NXIVM. She was released on $5 million bail and placed under house arrest until Wednesday's sentencing.

https://www.newsweek.com/smallville...ed-3-years-20000-fine-role-nxivm-cult-1605687
 
ramonmercado said:
Not even Superboy could save her now.

Actress Allison Mack was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for her involvement in the NXIVM sex cult.

She will also have to pay a $20,000 fine, according to the U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of New York.

Mack, known for her role in the TV series Smallville, was arrested in 2018 along with six other people involved in the controversial group. The cult's leader, Keith Raniere, is serving a 120-year prison sentence after being convicted in 2019.

Mack, 36, pleaded guilty in April 2019 to racketeering and racketeering conspiracy charges related to her high-level role in NXIVM. She was released on $5 million bail and placed under house arrest until Wednesday's sentencing.

https://www.newsweek.com/smallville...ed-3-years-20000-fine-role-nxivm-cult-1605687
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What is it with people? :dunno:

I mean, one likes a shag now and then but it's not important enough to get people sent to prison for!

In fact it's not worth slamming a bloody door over.
 
escargot said:
What is it with people? :dunno:

I mean, one likes a shag now and then but it's not important enough to get people sent to prison for!

In fact it's not worth slamming a bloody door over.
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Thanks for pointing me to this rabbit hole! Now that QAnon is gone I need a different fix :)
Here's a long series about the NXIVM trial:
http://nxivm.timesunion.libsynpro.com/

And I assume you all have listened to this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08xzk5h
Investigating wellness company One Taste and asking big questions about women’s health.
 
Three years for demanding other women's genitals be mutilated with her own initials. Judge must have liked her TV work.
 
Another NXIVM leader is sentenced.

NEW YORK (AP) — A former nurse who co-founded and once ran the cult-like NXIVM group, where prosecutors say some women were brainwashed, branded like animals and coerced into sex, was sentenced Wednesday to 42 months in prison but won’t be locked up until January. Nancy Salzman, the former president and co-founder of NXIVM, must also pay a $150,000 fine, U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis said. She has agreed to forfeit more than $500,000 in cash, several properties and a Steinway grand piano.

Salzman must report to prison by Jan. 19, Garaufis said. Her lawyers said she has been caring for her ailing mother. Speaking in Brooklyn federal court, Salzman, 67, said she fell under NXIVM leader Keith Raniere’s spell when they started working together 20 years ago and that she started rationalizing and overlooking the wrongdoing she saw around her. She offered an apology to everyone she’s hurt.

“I don’t know that I can ever forgive myself,” she said.

Salzman, known within the Albany-based group as “Prefect,” pleaded guilty in March 2019 to charges of racketeering conspiracy that involved conspiracy to commit identity theft and conspiracy to obstruct justice. She was one of the first in the group’s leadership to plead guilty to criminal charges.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nxiv...in-sex-slaves-case_n_613a1cbbe4b00ff836e9cbb9
 
ramonmercado said:
She offered an apology to everyone she’s hurt.

“I don’t know that I can ever forgive myself,” she said.
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That comes across as being all about her and certainly not an apology.

Who cares if she can forgive herself? She shouldn't. Sitting in her cell thinking about how brutally she has treated other women for twenty years is what she needs to be doing.
 
The Dr was defiant at the hearing.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York health officials have revoked the medical license of a doctor with the cult-like group NXIVM who branded 17 women with the initials of the group's leader, Keith Raniere.

A health department hearing committee sustained multiple of counts of professional misconduct against Danielle Roberts, who belonged to a secret women's group within NXIVM called DOS that required a “vow of obedience” between master and slave. Many of the counts stem from Roberts using a cauterizing device to brand “KAR” on the women in their pelvic region without anesthesia “to intentionally cause them pain,” according to the decision released this week. The brands were meant to symbolize the women’s status as sex slaves for the now imprisoned self-help guru.

Roberts deviated from the standard of care and “dangerously operated” the branding device on the women, according to the decision first reported by the Times-Union of Albany.The committee said Roberts was evasive and defiant during her testimony. Roberts "denies being brainwashed, yet she expressed no real remorse, which represented to the hearing committee her distorted reality and the very real concern that others remain vulnerable to her future brandings,” according to the decision.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/nxivm-doctor-who-branded-women-loses-medical-license/ar-AAP31xP
 
Yithian said:
A long but interesting read here--cult motifs and money, money, money.

The Dark Side of the Orgasmic Meditation Company​
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By Ellen Huet​
18 June 2018, 18:00 GMT+9​
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When Michal got married in August 2015, her family and longtime friends didn’t attend. The woman who walked her down the aisle, the dozens of beaming onlookers, her soon-to-be husband—all were people she’d met in the preceding 10 months. Wearing a loose, casual dress borrowed from one of her new friends, Michal spent the ceremony in a daze.​
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She knew she didn’t want to get married like this, in the living room of a rented San Francisco house without her family’s support, yet she felt compelled to do it. That uneasy feeling could apply to most of her experiences in OneTaste.​
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OneTaste is a sexuality-focused wellness education company based in the Bay Area. It’s best known for classes on “orgasmic meditation,” a trademarked procedure that typically involves a man using a gloved, lubricated fingertip to stroke a woman’s clitoris for 15 minutes. For Michal, like those at her wedding, OneTaste was much more than a series of workshops. It was a company that had, in less than a year, gained sway over every aspect of her life.​
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Since taking her first class, Michal had started working on OneTaste’s sales staff and living in a communal house in Brooklyn with her co-workers. Seven days a week, they gathered for multiple rounds of orgasmic meditation, or OM. (They pronounce it “ohm.”) They spent hours calling and texting people who’d come to a OneTaste event, trying to sell seats for the next, more expensive classes. The company-hosted evening OM circles in Manhattan sometimes held 30 or more pairs of strokers and strokees in one room, the fully clothed men concentrating on their moving fingertips while the women, naked from the waist down, moaned, wailed, and sighed. Afterward, Michal and her co-workers would run that night’s OneTaste event, where they set up chairs, jogged the microphone over to attendees, and chatted up more sales leads. It was exhausting.​
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Michal had been drawn to OneTaste because she felt unfulfilled sexually and in other parts of her personal life. The group seemed full of glowing, attractive people confident they could feel profound sexual pleasure whenever they wanted. She believed her new life would bring her closer to the center of OneTaste, where those who were experts in OM—especially the company’s co-founder, Nicole Daedone—seemed to hold the key to sexual and spiritual enlightenment.​
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Continued at length:​
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Heads of ‘orgasmic meditation’ group, OneTaste, charged with forced labor and sex abuse of followers​


The heads of the once-popular wellness group, OneTaste, which promised enlightenment through orgasms, have been charged with running it like a cult in which followers were groomed to engage in unwanted sex acts and forced to work for free.

Nicole Daedone, who founded OneTaste in 2004 and drew wide attention through her promotion of “orgasmic meditation,” in which trauma would be washed away through partnered masturbation, is accused of draining her mostly women followers’ bank accounts and not paying them for their labor.

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn say Daedone, 56, and OneTaste’s former-head of sales, Rachel Cherwitz, 43, ran a years-long scheme to obtain free labor from followers by subjecting them to economic, sexual and psychological abuse using surveillance, indoctrination, and intimidation.

Prosecutors say the pair drew recruits through chapters all over the country and then worked to isolate them from their friends and family, coercing them into taking out debt to pay for wellness courses.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/h...ced-labor-and-sex-abuse-of-followers-5e2fcd5c

maximus otter
 
maximus otter said:

Heads of ‘orgasmic meditation’ group, OneTaste, charged with forced labor and sex abuse of followers​


The heads of the once-popular wellness group, OneTaste, which promised enlightenment through orgasms, have been charged with running it like a cult in which followers were groomed to engage in unwanted sex acts and forced to work for free.

Nicole Daedone, who founded OneTaste in 2004 and drew wide attention through her promotion of “orgasmic meditation,” in which trauma would be washed away through partnered masturbation, is accused of draining her mostly women followers’ bank accounts and not paying them for their labor.

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn say Daedone, 56, and OneTaste’s former-head of sales, Rachel Cherwitz, 43, ran a years-long scheme to obtain free labor from followers by subjecting them to economic, sexual and psychological abuse using surveillance, indoctrination, and intimidation.

Prosecutors say the pair drew recruits through chapters all over the country and then worked to isolate them from their friends and family, coercing them into taking out debt to pay for wellness courses.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/h...ced-labor-and-sex-abuse-of-followers-5e2fcd5c

maximus otter
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There's a podcast about that and - WOW - it's apparently being sued by the cult!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08xzk5h/episodes/downloads
 
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