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Ugandan central government for 18 years, aided by thousand of children like her whom it
has kidnapped.
She recalls how leaders ordered a group of newly captured schoolgirls, Awino among them,
to kill one of their number who had tried to escape. When the girls refused, the rebels beat
them with guns and machetes, then again ordered them to stone the child to death. They
did. Such was the children‘s conditioning to fight for and become brides of LRA men.
Charlotte‘s mother, Angela Atyam, co-founded the Concerned Parents Association a year
after her daughter‘s abduction, and met soon after with an LRA commander, who said he‘d
release Charlotte if Atyam ended her campaign against the group. Atyam refused, and
became Uganda‘s best-known advocate for the kidnapped children. She also lived to see her
daughter, who escaped the LRA during an attack by government forces. (Sadrsan
Raghaven, Detroit Free Press, 10/14/04)
Manganin Sibuea
Doomsday Leader Sentenced
The Rev. Manganin Sibuea, who with 200 of his followers barricaded himself in a house in
Indonesia two years ago to await the end of the world, has been sentenced to two years in
jail for ―abusing and besmirching‖ religion. Authorities raided the house, fearing residents
would commit suicide if the doomsday prophecy did not come true. (AAP, Internet) 4/7/04)
Manson Family
Van Houston Again Denied Parole
A California prison board has for the 15th time denied an appeal for parole by Charles
Manson Family member Leslie Van Houston, convicted along with Charles Manson and
several others for committing the infamous 1969 murders that he hoped would start a race
war. Her defense had been that Manson brainwashed her into helping commit the crimes.
Her prison record, according to her lawyer, indicates she has been a model inmate and
poses no threat to the public. (Reuters, Internet, 8/25/04)
New TV Movie Based on Murders
Jeremy Davis plays Charles Manson in a new television movie ―Helter Skelter," based on
the notorious Tate/LaBianca murders of 1969 as recounted in Vincent Bugliosi‘s book, Helter
Skelter. (www.cbs.com, Internet, 5/16/04)
Still Has Following
According to Vincent Bugliosi, who prosecuted Charles Manson and co-wrote Helter Skelter,
the best-selling book about the notorious multiple-murder case, Manson still receives more
mail than any other inmate in the history of the American prison system. ―Who is writing to
him?‖ asks Bugliosi? ―Young, impressionable kids going through a rebellious phase view
him as some type of anti-establishment hero, a glorious outlaw.‖ Manson‘s myth, shorn of
the evil aspects, could grow even greater after his death.(Stephen Applebaum, Sunday
Times, U.K., Internet, 7/11/04)
Ministerial Christian Academy
Police Remove Allegedly Abused Students
Police have removed 26 students from Ministerial Christian Academy, in Montclair, CA,
because of alleged abuse at the military-style boarding school. Authorities also confiscated
handcuffs, shackles, financial records, and other documents found at the facility. The
caretaker, a registered sex offender, was arrested on suspicion of rape with a foreign object
and sexual battery of a female student.
Ugandan central government for 18 years, aided by thousand of children like her whom it
has kidnapped.
She recalls how leaders ordered a group of newly captured schoolgirls, Awino among them,
to kill one of their number who had tried to escape. When the girls refused, the rebels beat
them with guns and machetes, then again ordered them to stone the child to death. They
did. Such was the children‘s conditioning to fight for and become brides of LRA men.
Charlotte‘s mother, Angela Atyam, co-founded the Concerned Parents Association a year
after her daughter‘s abduction, and met soon after with an LRA commander, who said he‘d
release Charlotte if Atyam ended her campaign against the group. Atyam refused, and
became Uganda‘s best-known advocate for the kidnapped children. She also lived to see her
daughter, who escaped the LRA during an attack by government forces. (Sadrsan
Raghaven, Detroit Free Press, 10/14/04)
Manganin Sibuea
Doomsday Leader Sentenced
The Rev. Manganin Sibuea, who with 200 of his followers barricaded himself in a house in
Indonesia two years ago to await the end of the world, has been sentenced to two years in
jail for ―abusing and besmirching‖ religion. Authorities raided the house, fearing residents
would commit suicide if the doomsday prophecy did not come true. (AAP, Internet) 4/7/04)
Manson Family
Van Houston Again Denied Parole
A California prison board has for the 15th time denied an appeal for parole by Charles
Manson Family member Leslie Van Houston, convicted along with Charles Manson and
several others for committing the infamous 1969 murders that he hoped would start a race
war. Her defense had been that Manson brainwashed her into helping commit the crimes.
Her prison record, according to her lawyer, indicates she has been a model inmate and
poses no threat to the public. (Reuters, Internet, 8/25/04)
New TV Movie Based on Murders
Jeremy Davis plays Charles Manson in a new television movie ―Helter Skelter," based on
the notorious Tate/LaBianca murders of 1969 as recounted in Vincent Bugliosi‘s book, Helter
Skelter. (www.cbs.com, Internet, 5/16/04)
Still Has Following
According to Vincent Bugliosi, who prosecuted Charles Manson and co-wrote Helter Skelter,
the best-selling book about the notorious multiple-murder case, Manson still receives more
mail than any other inmate in the history of the American prison system. ―Who is writing to
him?‖ asks Bugliosi? ―Young, impressionable kids going through a rebellious phase view
him as some type of anti-establishment hero, a glorious outlaw.‖ Manson‘s myth, shorn of
the evil aspects, could grow even greater after his death.(Stephen Applebaum, Sunday
Times, U.K., Internet, 7/11/04)
Ministerial Christian Academy
Police Remove Allegedly Abused Students
Police have removed 26 students from Ministerial Christian Academy, in Montclair, CA,
because of alleged abuse at the military-style boarding school. Authorities also confiscated
handcuffs, shackles, financial records, and other documents found at the facility. The
caretaker, a registered sex offender, was arrested on suspicion of rape with a foreign object
and sexual battery of a female student.
