Cult leader in Kenya to face nearly 200 charges of child murder – NBC Bay Area
Doomsday cult leader Paul Mackenzie and 30 of his followers were presented in a Kenyan court in the coastal town of Malindi on Wednesday to face charges of...
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Doomsday cult leader Paul Mackenzie and 30 of his followers were presented in a Kenyan court in the coastal town of Malindi on Wednesday to face charges of...
MALINDI, Kenya--A Kenyan judge on Wednesday ordered cult leader Paul Mackenzie and 30 associates to undergo mental health evaluations before being charged with the murder of 191 children whose bodies have been exhumed since last April from the Shakahola forest. Authorities say Mackenzie, the head of the Good
A doomsday cult leader and 30 of his followers have been presented in a Kenyan court to face charges of murdering 191 children. Leader Paul Mackenzie and the other suspects did not enter pleas because the judge granted a request from prosecutors that they undergo mental assessments and return to court on Feb. 6. The remains of 180 of the 191 dead children have not been identified. Mackenzie and some of his followers have been blamed for the deaths of 429 members of his Good News International Church. Many are believed to have starved themselves in the belief that by doing so they would meet Je...
A Kenyan court on Thursday charged the leader of a starvation cult with terrorism over the deaths of more than 400 of his followers.
Paul Mackenzie and 94 others charged over deaths of followers whose bodies have been exhumed from the Shakahola forest.