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| Communist 'Cult Leader' Aravindan Balakrishnan Convicted in Slave Case | |
| 2015-12-05 | |
| [NBCNEWS] A communist "cult leader" who brainwashed three women -- including his own daughter -- and for years controlled every aspect of their lives was convicted Friday of false imprisonment, child cruelty and rape. Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, was the "charismatic leader" of a political collective he founded in the 1970s named the Workers' Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought.
He was "able to manipulate their minds through this regime of abuse," the force said. His daughter, who was born into the group in 1983, was kept in conditions amounting to slavery and had extremely limited contact with the outside world until she fled two years ago aged 30. Following her escape, officials tracked down two other women, now both aged 64, who gave similar stories and said they left the commune earlier after more than a decade "following years of degrading treatment." Balakrishnan was convicted at London's Southwark Crown Court on Friday of cruelty to a child and false imprisonment with regard to his daughter. He was found guilty of 12 other charges including rape, indecent assault and actual bodily harm against the other two women. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 But all marxism is a form of slavery. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2015-12-05 17:51 |