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Families say this “healer” cast a spell on their girls
“Dressed in a theatrical felt hat and quilted jacket, this is the
first” sign of “self-styled ‘healer’ Anne Craig to emerge since
a Mail on Sunday investigation accused her of helping to tear
apart some of the country’s [UK’s] best-connected families. For
four weeks Craig has refused to comment despite mounting
allegations that she helped isolate a string of impressionable
young women from their friends and families. They include
highly educated society girls Laura Hue-Williams and Victoria
Cayzer. ...Through her lawyers, Craig—who is understood
not to have any recognized qualifications and is not a member
of a professional body—has denied any wrongdoing. ..” The
godmother of another former Craig client commented, “The
method is to isolate you from friends and family. I told my
goddaughter that this was toxic and she agreed that she
would stop seeing Craig.” The Mail on Sunday report continues,
“Meanwhile, a businesswoman believes that her daughter
was saved because she was older and more skeptical about
the ‘healer.’ Her daughter was a friend of Victoria Cayzer, who
recommended Craig. She said: ‘My daughter did not see Craig
for long because she thought it was ridiculous. When she tried
to raise this with Victoria, Victoria said they could not be friends
unless she was on “the journey” with Craig.’ Last night, former
Home Office Minister Tom Sackville, an anti-cult campaigner,
joined the Mail on Sunday’s call for a law to extend the existing
protection of children to vulnerable adults too. ...Professor
Rod Dubrow-Marshall, a director with the International Cultic
Studies Association, also called for new protection. He said:
‘Anyone is susceptible to psychological manipulation and
mind-control. The guru usually has some kind of psychological
disorder, such as a narcissistic personality disorder. They yearn
to have people worship them.’″ (Daily Mail, 6/1/16)
Alleged polygamist leader of cult-like Ontario church
pleads guilty to “corrections and chastisements”
“It didn’t take much to set off Fred King, the leader of a
small, isolated church [Church of Jesus Christ Restored] in
Chatsworth Township, just south of Owen Sound, Ontario.
Sometimes he’d deliver ‘corrections and chastisements’ by
punching, kicking or spitting on parishioners, an Owen Sound
court heard Tuesday. Other times he used humiliation or did
something such as squeezing a child’s hand with crushing force
for fighting with a sister. The victims were his parishioners.
In one case when a teen tried to run away, his grandmother
tattled and Fred King, who was known simply as ‘The Prophet,’
retaliated fiercely with a beating at a Sunday church service.
King, 57, of Chatsworth Township, pleaded guilty before
Superior Court Justice Clayton Conlan Tuesday to nine assaults
which took place between Dec. 12, 1988 and Aug. 10, 2008,
mostly in Chatsworth Township or Grey County, and in one case
in Peel Region, involving four church members. Other charges
King faces are to be withdrawn when he’s sentenced Sept. 14,
Martin said afterward.” (National Post, 05/11/16)
Germany opens files on Nazi pedophile sect in Chile
“Germany is declassifying its files on Colonia Dignidad, a sect
in Chile run by a Nazi pedophile. ..Colonia Dignidad was a
German commune founded in 1961 by convicted pedophile
Paul Schaefer and a group of fellow German immigrants in a
remote part of Chile, where residents were indoctrinated and
kept as virtual slaves over three decades. ...‘The handling of
Colonia Dignidad was not a glorious chapter of the history
of the foreign ministry,’ said Foreign Minister Frank-Walter
Steinmeier. For many years, from the 60s to the 80s, German
diplomats looked the other way, and did too little to protect
their citizens in this commune,’ he said as the ministry screened
a movie about the case starring Emma Watson and Daniel
Bruehl. ...In 1997, Schaefer faced a series of lawsuits and fled
Chile. He was arrested in Argentina in 2005 and subsequently
convicted in Chile for sexual abuse of children, arms possession
and human rights violations. He died in a Chilean jail in 2010
while serving a 20-year sentence.” (The Local, 04/27/16)
Germany seeks extradition of Nazi sect pedophile doctor
“A doctor who was convicted in Chile for complicity in child
sex abuse at the Nazi-tied Colonia Dignidad commune may
have to serve out his sentence in Germany. Hartmut Hopp, 76,
was the right-hand man of convicted pedophile Paul Schäfer,
who in 1961 founded the notorious German commune Colonia
Dignidad in Chile where residents were indoctrinated and kept
as virtual slaves over three decades. Schäfer also collaborated
with the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, whose secret police
used the colony—which lies around 350 kilometers (215 miles)
south of the capital Santiago—as a place to torture opponents.
Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal had also reported that infamous
concentration camp doctor Josef Mengele, dubbed the ‘Angel
of Death,’ had been at the colony. Hopp was convicted in 2011
for complicity in 16 cases of child sex abuse, but returned to
News Desk
As a service to members, the ICSA News Desk sends out,
approximately once a week, an email that contains a noteworthy
article. If you have not signed up to receive the News Desk email,
please write ICSA at mail@icsamail.com In each ICSA Today issue,
the News Desk provides summaries and excerpts from recent
news articles. These articles are available to members in the ICSA
E-Library.
Families say this “healer” cast a spell on their girls
“Dressed in a theatrical felt hat and quilted jacket, this is the
first” sign of “self-styled ‘healer’ Anne Craig to emerge since
a Mail on Sunday investigation accused her of helping to tear
apart some of the country’s [UK’s] best-connected families. For
four weeks Craig has refused to comment despite mounting
allegations that she helped isolate a string of impressionable
young women from their friends and families. They include
highly educated society girls Laura Hue-Williams and Victoria
Cayzer. ...Through her lawyers, Craig—who is understood
not to have any recognized qualifications and is not a member
of a professional body—has denied any wrongdoing. ..” The
godmother of another former Craig client commented, “The
method is to isolate you from friends and family. I told my
goddaughter that this was toxic and she agreed that she
would stop seeing Craig.” The Mail on Sunday report continues,
“Meanwhile, a businesswoman believes that her daughter
was saved because she was older and more skeptical about
the ‘healer.’ Her daughter was a friend of Victoria Cayzer, who
recommended Craig. She said: ‘My daughter did not see Craig
for long because she thought it was ridiculous. When she tried
to raise this with Victoria, Victoria said they could not be friends
unless she was on “the journey” with Craig.’ Last night, former
Home Office Minister Tom Sackville, an anti-cult campaigner,
joined the Mail on Sunday’s call for a law to extend the existing
protection of children to vulnerable adults too. ...Professor
Rod Dubrow-Marshall, a director with the International Cultic
Studies Association, also called for new protection. He said:
‘Anyone is susceptible to psychological manipulation and
mind-control. The guru usually has some kind of psychological
disorder, such as a narcissistic personality disorder. They yearn
to have people worship them.’″ (Daily Mail, 6/1/16)
Alleged polygamist leader of cult-like Ontario church
pleads guilty to “corrections and chastisements”
“It didn’t take much to set off Fred King, the leader of a
small, isolated church [Church of Jesus Christ Restored] in
Chatsworth Township, just south of Owen Sound, Ontario.
Sometimes he’d deliver ‘corrections and chastisements’ by
punching, kicking or spitting on parishioners, an Owen Sound
court heard Tuesday. Other times he used humiliation or did
something such as squeezing a child’s hand with crushing force
for fighting with a sister. The victims were his parishioners.
In one case when a teen tried to run away, his grandmother
tattled and Fred King, who was known simply as ‘The Prophet,’
retaliated fiercely with a beating at a Sunday church service.
King, 57, of Chatsworth Township, pleaded guilty before
Superior Court Justice Clayton Conlan Tuesday to nine assaults
which took place between Dec. 12, 1988 and Aug. 10, 2008,
mostly in Chatsworth Township or Grey County, and in one case
in Peel Region, involving four church members. Other charges
King faces are to be withdrawn when he’s sentenced Sept. 14,
Martin said afterward.” (National Post, 05/11/16)
Germany opens files on Nazi pedophile sect in Chile
“Germany is declassifying its files on Colonia Dignidad, a sect
in Chile run by a Nazi pedophile. ..Colonia Dignidad was a
German commune founded in 1961 by convicted pedophile
Paul Schaefer and a group of fellow German immigrants in a
remote part of Chile, where residents were indoctrinated and
kept as virtual slaves over three decades. ...‘The handling of
Colonia Dignidad was not a glorious chapter of the history
of the foreign ministry,’ said Foreign Minister Frank-Walter
Steinmeier. For many years, from the 60s to the 80s, German
diplomats looked the other way, and did too little to protect
their citizens in this commune,’ he said as the ministry screened
a movie about the case starring Emma Watson and Daniel
Bruehl. ...In 1997, Schaefer faced a series of lawsuits and fled
Chile. He was arrested in Argentina in 2005 and subsequently
convicted in Chile for sexual abuse of children, arms possession
and human rights violations. He died in a Chilean jail in 2010
while serving a 20-year sentence.” (The Local, 04/27/16)
Germany seeks extradition of Nazi sect pedophile doctor
“A doctor who was convicted in Chile for complicity in child
sex abuse at the Nazi-tied Colonia Dignidad commune may
have to serve out his sentence in Germany. Hartmut Hopp, 76,
was the right-hand man of convicted pedophile Paul Schäfer,
who in 1961 founded the notorious German commune Colonia
Dignidad in Chile where residents were indoctrinated and kept
as virtual slaves over three decades. Schäfer also collaborated
with the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, whose secret police
used the colony—which lies around 350 kilometers (215 miles)
south of the capital Santiago—as a place to torture opponents.
Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal had also reported that infamous
concentration camp doctor Josef Mengele, dubbed the ‘Angel
of Death,’ had been at the colony. Hopp was convicted in 2011
for complicity in 16 cases of child sex abuse, but returned to
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