Jett Travolta’s death shines spotlights on cult’s quackery…

January 5th, 2009

The tragic death of John Travolta’s son may or may not have been related to Scientology’s quackery — but given that cult’s insane approach to anything health-related, the Travolta’s adherence to this alleged ‘religion’ can not have helped.

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Cult leader Wayne Bent (aka Michael Travesser) sentenced to 10 years

December 31st, 2008

Cult leader Wayne Bent was sentenced on Tuesday to 18 years in prison for molesting a young follower. Eight years of Bent’s sentence were suspended, making the effective sentence 10 years unless the suspension is revoked.

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LOS ANGELES- FREE HELP FOR THOSE WHO HAVE LEFT CULTS!!!

December 30th, 2008

Do you live the in Los Angeles Area? Do you or does someone you know
need help after leaving a cult or other high demand group?

There is free help available!

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Reminder it is your Last Chance for a Special 2008 Tax Deduction!!!

December 29th, 2008

You only have a few days left to get a tax deduction for 2008 by making a donation to Factnet before the December 31 at midnight. Please donate now or you could lose the opportunity to deduct this donation from your 2008 taxes!

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Santa has come early to FACTNet!!! The discussion board is now BACK UP AND RUNNING!!!

December 23rd, 2008

*FACTNet editor note: All because of you, the friends of FACTNet, the discussion board is once again back up and running!!! WOO HOO!!!
Due to an amazingly generous benefactor’s anonymous donation of $1,000.00, FACTNet can now re-open our discussion board.
All of us here at FACTNet would like to […]

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Cult Leader Wayne Bent found guilty!!!

December 16th, 2008

Leader of apocalyptic sect found guilty…

TAOS, N.M. (AP) - Jurors in Taos on Monday convicted the leader of an apocalyptic northeastern New Mexico sect on one count of criminal sexual contact of a minor and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Jurors deliberated for more than five […]

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House of Yahweh sect elder sentenced to 30 years…

December 16th, 2008

A judge sentenced a religious sect House of Yahweh elder to 30 years in prison for molesting an 11-year-old girl during a phony cervical cancer exam.

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Please help if you can! The Impact of Cults on Creativity - Last Chance to Complete the Survey…

December 9th, 2008

The Impact of Cults on Creativity - Last Chance to Complete the Survey…

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FACTNet: We are closer to our goal and getting the discussion board back up!

December 4th, 2008

First of all, we here at FACTNet would like to thank all of those who have helped us with donations in order for us to meet our operating costs of running the discussion board and getting it back up and running.
We have so far received $1,500.00 and are just $500.00 shy of […]

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Seeking children born into “cults”…Do you have a story to tell?

November 30th, 2008

Brenda Lee writes: “My next quarterly “Out of the Cocoon” newsletter (January 1, 2009) is going to feature stories by those who have been raised as Jehovah’s Witnesses or in another high-control group. If you were either born into such a group or raised in one (from newborn up to age 18) and would […]

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Dear FACTNet Community and Online Guests,

This email is a little unusual in that we regularly send only the newsletters out; however, with the current situation and challenges we felt it necessary to provide you with information and an opportunity to join us in solving our current challenge.

Here is the situation, the costs of implementing the new discussion board software and the new home page blog upgrades have run considerably higher than originally anticipated and frankly we’re financially in a temporary tight spot. As a result, our current bank balance is about one-third of what it should be and by the time we implement all the security that is needed for these new upgrades our cost will be about three times what we originally anticipated for these vital security and service expansion projects.

We invite your generous help and support to remain financially viable and to continue to deliver the free survivor resources, healing, and support that so many rely on. We sincerely thank all those that have donated in our 2007 website upgrade fund raising drives—including a recent anonymous donor that sent a large donation to support our upgraded vital mission.

We are sincerely grateful for all your past generosity and invite you in this special situation to help support this critical and great work. Please use the following link for simple and anonymous ways to quickly and easily donate to FACTNet today: http://www.factnet.org/donation.htm

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“Twenty five years of helping cult victims has thoroughly convinced me that the wrongdoing by destructive cults will stop ONLY when ALL profit is removed from that wrongdoing by holding the cult’s top executives PERSONALLY accountable before the law! If you or a loved one has been harmed by a cult, get a lawyer and sue the cult’s senior executives today. They are ultimately responsible for the harm that the cult has caused you and your loved ones. By getting full legal and financial restitution from the cult’s ill gotten profits you will not only help make your life whole again you will also do the most effective thing possible to prevent the cult from doing the same harm to others. Be encouraged, there are now many legal precedents established on cult abuse and mind control. Destructive cults have already paid former cult members hundreds of millions of dollars either though secret out-of-court settlements, pre-trial settlements or through enforced court judgments. Stop letting your former cult keep victimizing you. Use the law to go get your life made whole again and to help stop the wrongdoing, I did.”

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