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Keith Raniere, the founder of the NXIVM sect, in which starving women were kept, marked with his initials and forced to have sex with him, was sentenced Tuesday to 120 years in prison for sex trafficking and other crimes, it reports. Reuters.
The judges set the sentence today. He had been found guilty in June.
Raniere, who introduced himself as a scientist, a genius, is actually a master of manipulation, a con man, and the criminal leader of a cult organization that involved sex trafficking, child pornography, extortion, forced abortions, cauterization. , degradation and humiliation. The crimes of him and his accomplices destroyed marriages, careers, fortunes and lives, “said prosecutor Richard Donoghue.
Keith Raniere started working under the auspices of an organization he founded in 2003. The stated object of activity: personal development. She soon gathered a group of 15 to 20 followers, whom she made her sex slaves. One of them was only 15 years old.
Later he decided to expand and establish a parallel, secret, pyramid-like organization. To be accepted, the recruits, generally wealthy women, had to provide guarantees: material, potentially compromising, photos or letters that the organization reserved the right to publish if they did not obey or tried to leave. The victims said they were marked on the skin with an electrocautery with the initials of the “grand master.”
More than 16,000 people would have benefited from the group’s services, including a former president of Mexico, but also some Hollywood actresses, such as Allison Mack, who in the early 2000s starred in the series Smallville.
In fact, Mack pleaded guilty to the case. He recruited women, most of the time rich, to be part of Raniere’s sect.
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