Cult child sex abuse case starts

The Portugal News/November 15, 2016

The trial of the leader of a fake religious sect called "Verdade Celestial" (Celetial Truth) and seven other defendants accused of sexually abusing children in a farm near Palmela, south of Lisbon, is to begin this Tuesday.

The main pedophile was arrested in June 2015 when he was pretending to be a psychologist and called himself the leader of the religious sect. He has been charged with dozens of crimes of rape, pimping, child pornography, some of which against his own son.
 
The accusation said the defendants “showed total disrespect for the children" who attended the farm for tutoring or to participate in activities organised by the religious leader who convinced them that the sexual abuse they were subjected to was “purifying acts”.
 
The cult leader is also suspected of charging other child molesters who wanted to abuse the children who went to the farm.