The South Korean Police and Prosecutor’s Office stormed this Thursday, March 23, to search the headquarters of the Christian Gospel Mission sect, the subject of a recent Netflix documentary, to investigate the sexual abuse allegedly committed by its founder, Jung Myung-seok, against female followers. of the group.
The troops entered the complex that the sect has in Geumsan, about 165 kilometers south of Seoul, to try to get hold of evidence of these alleged abuses.
Jung, 78, has been in pretrial detention since last year after two former Hong Kong and Australian cult members accused him of abusing them.
Both women recount their accusations in the documentary ‘In the Name of God: A Holy Betrayal’ (In the name of God: a divine betrayal), co-produced by Netflix and the South Korean network MBS and which dedicates four of its eight episodes to Jung.
Since his preventive arrest, at least three other followers of the sect, also known as Jesus Morning Star (JMS) or Providencia, have accused him of sexual abuse.
Jung, who considers himself a messiah, was released from prison in 2018 after spending 10 years in jail after courts convicted him of rape and other sexual abuse on various members of the sect and for embezzlement.
A court recently rejected a request from the sect itself to prevent the broadcast of the documentary, which collects countless testimonies from former followers and activists who have tried to gather evidence of the abuses that Jung seems to have committed for decades and systematically against hundreds (some who believe that thousands even) of followers of JMS.
A pervert who spied on women’s bathrooms fell
In Thailand, a former worker at the Australian embassy in Bangkok has been sentenced to two years in prison after installing hidden cameras in women’s toilets at his former workplace.
Nayot Thamsongsana, 39, was found guilty on two counts of sexual assault, a prosecutor in Bangkok told AFP.
This Thai man, who worked at the embassy as a computer technician, was arrested in January 2022 and later fired.
The incident broke out the previous year after someone found a memory card from the hidden cameras on the ground, according to the Australian network ABC.
Sixty women offered their witnesses to the Police during the investigation, this television pointed out.
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