She gave them the address of an intersex self-help group.
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The Gulenist movement is part self-help group, part secret society.
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Also, the dropout rate was unexpectedly higher in the self-help group.
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Morgan joined another self-help group called Gang Affiliates Transitioning to Excellence.
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Over time, the self-help group really shifted Mack and Krowchuk's social landscape.
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It is her turn to sit on the committee of her village's self-help group.
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A subset of 27 women from the self-help group were interviewed after the trial.
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Is there a self-help group for narcissists whose bronze busts have turned out awry?
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After years of letter-writing, he received permission to convene a self-help group for violent criminals.
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Raniere founded the self-help group NXIVM in 1998 to sell "executive success" seminars to aspiring millionaires.
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Nxivm (pronounced Nex-e-um) was founded in the 1990s and billed itself as a self-help group.
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Mack was taken into custody in April in connection with the controversial New York-based self-help group Nxivm.
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She brought with her a production crew that was making a film about a self-help group called Nxivm.
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He has had to rely on the charity of a neighborhood self-help group to feed his family of six.
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The self-help group also reported significant improvements in sleep quality and functioning at work, home, leisure and social situations.
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Allison Mack did her best to tell Emma Watson and Kelly Clarkson all about her controversial self-help group Nxivm.
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Bronfman is accused of identity theft and of money laundering while playing a key role in the self-help group NXIVM.
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Eighty people contended that they were bilked out of millions of dollars through a "coercive" scheme by the self-help group.
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Prosecutors said he used his organization, Nxivm, which billed itself as a self-help group, to hide the secretive sorority, called DOS.
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And Nxivm, the cult that masqueraded as a quasi-feminist self-help group, gets another shakedown courtesy of reporters from the CBC.
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According to Kyalo, the foundation's director, the sand dam that the Mukaso Self Help Group uses can hold millions of liters of water.
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The self-help group provided classes to nearly 17,000 people, including prominent figures like "Smallville" actress Allison Mack and Seagram's liquor heiress Clare Bronfman.
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In the self-help group, the frequency of hot flashes and night sweats decreased by 24% over six weeks and 35% by 20 weeks.
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Like most mothers in her self-help group, she was going with her husband to work at construction sites or government run job sites.
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"Never in a million years would I have thought a self-help group could be a sex cult," says actress Catherine Oxenberg in the teaser.
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"It was the most painful, traumatic moment of my life," actress Sarah Edmondson told PEOPLE of the controversial self-help group Nxvim's 2016 initiation ceremony.
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So he began attending "Hoarders No More: NYC," a self-help group organized through the online service Meetup that holds regular meetings in Midtown Manhattan.
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When the members of a creepy self-help group request confessionals, Portia delivers a surprisingly affecting speech about the fact that people think she's dumb.
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The co-founder of NXIVM, the self-help group that was allegedly used as a front of a secret sex cult, now faces child pornography charges.
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"Prurience," which runs March 20 to 31 as part of the Guggenheim Museum's Works & Process series, unfolds at a fictional self-help group for pornography addiction.
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However, a new lawsuit claims the abuses of the self-proclaimed self-help group on their victims are far more "insidious" — and included illegal human experiments.
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Allison Mack was arrested in Brooklyn by the FBI on Friday for allegedly recruiting slaves into an alleged sex cult within the self-help group NXIVM.
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Keith Raniere, founder of the controversial self-help group Nxivm, faces federal charges of sex trafficking and related crimes that could send him to prison for life.
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Using the water stored in a sand dam they constructed, members of Songeni's Mukaso Self Help Group are now growing and exporting green beans to European markets.
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A secretive self-help group that promised women empowerment demanded they give a "master" naked photos or other compromising material to guarantee their silence about its existence.
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Back in 2014, during a period of heavy rainfall, members of Ithine Self Help Group made Sh. 16,000 ($160) selling harvested water, which they put in a bank.
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Over the past several weeks, arrests of members from the purported self-help group Nxivm have revealed an underground web of heinous crimes, from sex slavery to pyramid schemes.
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In Chaksu, Devi belongs to a self-help group that sews camel-leather slippers for sale to a retailer in Jaipur, and helps members source loans to buy property.
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That is when Frontier Markets found Bassi in a self-help group for women and trained her to spread awareness and sell solar lights in remote areas of Rajasthan.
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One of the film's finest moments occurs when Chubbuck and George go out to dinner and afterward he takes her to a self-help group that he swears by.
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The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), an international self-help group for survivors of clerical abuse, has also reported a rise in calls from abuse victims.
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Judge Viktor Pohorelsky told Mack that she is not to associate with anyone — past or present — from the alleged self-help group NXIVM, which authorities said was led by Keith Raniere.
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The actress is facing three charges in connection with Nxivm, a controversial self-help group, whose co-founder Keith Raniere was arrested in Mexico in March on the same three accusations.
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Last month, she pleaded guilty charges related to her involvement with a Nxivm, a self-help group described as having a secret society of "masters" and sexually subservient "slaves" within it.
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He co-founded a purported self-help group called Nxivm ... which authorities now believe is a cult that forces women into sex slavery -- after they're branded with his and Mack's initials.
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Like members of a self-help group, Democratic delegates were urged to praise their country for acknowledging lingering social, racial and economic ills, as a first step to seeking a cure.
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Among the dead were nine children and a woman pregnant with twins, said the Omagh Support and Self Help Group, an organization set up to help those affected by the bombing.
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Prosecutors say NXIVM, branded as a self-help group, was actually a cult that treated women as sex slaves and even branded them with the initials of the group's leader, Keith Raniere.
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Closing arguments in Raniere's racketeering trial have begun and prosecutors drilled home their claims that the "Nxivm" self-help group he founded was secretly a sex cult set up like a pyramid scheme.
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The co-founder of a U.S. "self-help" group who allegedly branded women and treated them as sex "slaves" was arrested in Mexico and is expected to appear in a Texas court Tuesday.
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A New York "self help group" accused of being a front for a sex cult that abused its female members has suspended operations due to "extraordinary circumstances," according to a statement posted online.
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Keith Raniere, the founder of the self-help group NXIVM that prosecutors say was hiding a secret sex cult, was denied bail Tuesday by a Brooklyn federal judge who deemed him a flight risk.
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He does not much like Reach - he is a member of a "Reach self-help group" - but he would rather stick with the devil he knows than adapt to a new British system too.
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PEOPLE obtained a copy of a letter submitted to the court on Tuesday by attorneys for the 36-year-old Mack, who is charged in her role in the controversial self-help group Nxivm.
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The so-called self-help group is also accused of bringing in dozens of women "slaves" from all over North America using coercive tactics, allegedly taking millions of dollars from some high-profile members.
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Lauren Salzman is a high-ranking member of NXIVM (pronounced nex-ee-um), a self-help group whose leader Keith Raniere is facing trial for child exploitation, sex trafficking, forced labor, racketeering, and other crimes.
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On Friday afternoon, Seagram's heiress Clare Bronfman pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to a sex-trafficking conspiracy in the cult-like self-help group Nxivm, her lawyer Mark Geragos confirmed to PEOPLE.
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Smallville actress Allison Mack has pleaded guilty to charges related to her involvement with a controversial self-help group described as having a secret society of "masters" and sexually subservient "slaves" within it, PEOPLE confirms.
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The Justice Department has started an investigation into a self-described self-help group in which women were branded with a symbol containing its leader's initials, several people contacted as part of the inquiry said.
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Mack, 35, faces three charges in connection with Nxivm, a controversial self-help group based out of Albany, New York, whose co-founder Keith Raniere was arrested in Mexico in March on the same three accusations.
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Actress Allison Mack is working out a possible plea following her Friday arrest on sex trafficking charges in connection with Nxivm — a controversial self-help group described by one former member as a "cult" — PEOPLE learns.
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NEW YORK – The Latest on the arrest of an heiress and others in the investigation into a self-help group accused of branding women and forcing them into unwanted sex (all times local): 7:00 p.m.
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TULUROBA, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For the women of Tuluroba village's self-help group, the goal was simple: use their combined savings to buy cattle, fatten them and sell them to the beef industry for slaughter.
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Nxivm founder Keith Raniere, the leader of the controversial New York-based self-help group, was found guilty Wednesday of federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges, according to John Marzulli, a spokesman for the prosecutor's office.
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After climbing the ranks of purported self-help group NXIVM for more than a decade, Mark Vicente remembered exactly when "walls came tumbling down" — when he learned about the group's alleged secret "sex slave" cult called DOS.
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Three defendants accused of crimes from sex trafficking to conspiracy as part of a controversial New York-based self-help group are in "active plea negotiations" as their scheduled trial next month draws near, according to prosecutors.
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Just days after NXIVM founder Keith Raniere, the leader of the controversial New York-based self-help group, was found guilty of federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges, Lifetime has announced a new movie about the case.
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" He was willing to candidly discuss the government's accusations, proclaiming his innocence and describing Ghee Kung Tong, the local organization the feds say was involved in all sorts of illegal activity, as a "private self-help group.
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Lawyers for the six defendants facing federal sex trafficking, forced labor, and racketeering charges for their alleged leadership roles in long-running controversial self-help group Nxivm have filed motions seeking a dismissal of all the criminal counts.
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A self-help group working in Kenya's slums, Ray of Hope for Waste Management within Communities (ROMCO), said some 75,000 tonnes of waste are generated in Kibera slum every year, the equivalent of around 205 tonnes per day.
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"Apart from the gift of life from God, this is the other biggest blessing that has come to us," said villager Mary Mwikali Kiminza, a mother of five and a member of the village's Ithine Self Help Group.
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Smallville actress Allison Mack tearfully apologized in court Monday for her involvement with the controversial, cult-like self-help group Nvixm after pleading guilty to racketeering charges, saying, "I'm very sorry for who I've hurt," multiple outlets report.
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Last year, Smallville star Allison Mack — who is facing criminal charges for her alleged connection to controversial self-help group Nxivm — got married to Battlestar Galactica actress Nicki Clyne, federal prosecutors said in court transcripts obtained by PEOPLE.
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In an interview apparently conducted before she was charged with sex trafficking, among other counts, former Smallville costar Allison Mack told a reporter it was her idea to brand some female members of the controversial self-help group Nxivm.
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But authorities allege Smallville actress Allison Mack hid her true motives: to recruit women into Nxivm, the controversial self-help group one former member has described as a "cult," and a sub-group within Nxivm that sexually exploited women.
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Nearly 20003 years before the FBI alleged top members of the self-help group committed sex trafficking and a bunch of other crimes, actress Sarah Edmondson attended a floating spirituality-themed film festival with her director husband in 2005.
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" India, then 25, was deeply involved in a controversial group called Nxivm, which billed itself as a "self help" group, but which Oxenberg and other former members claim is a "cult," led by Keith Raniere, whom members refer to as "Vanguard.
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The allegations against Mack stem from her alleged involvement with the controversial self-help group Nxivm, which one former member has described as a "cult," and whose co-founder, Keith Raniere, was charged last month with sex trafficking and forced labor.
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An heiress to the Seagram&aposs liquor fortune has been released on $100 million bond after pleading not guilty to racketeering charges related to a New York self-help group accused of branding women and forcing them into unwanted sex.
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An heiress to the Seagram&aposs liquor fortune has been arraigned on racketeering conspiracy charges in connection with her work with a self-help group in upstate New York that is accused of branding women and forcing them into unwanted sex.
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Smallville star Allison Mack is accused of imposing a restrictive diet on India Oxenberg, the daughter of Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg and a fellow member of the controversial Nxivm self-help group, to suit the sexual desires of the group's leader.
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Late last week, Smallville actress Allison Mack was arrested on sex trafficking charges stemming from her involvement with NXIVM, a self-help group allegedly running a sex cult that branded and blackmailed women into having sex with its founder, Keith Raniere.
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Mr. Raniere stands accused of running Nxivm, which billed itself as a self-help group, like a cult, subjugating and abusing women who joined, and former members said, punishing those whose disobeyed his orders to have sex only with him.
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About three years ago, some female members began approaching others on the sly, asking if they felt stuck in their personal growth and wanted to join a secret international women-only self-help group to move quicker in their personal growth.
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" Although her income has fallen by a quarter over the past year as a result of recurring droughts and floods, she said the self-help group has allowed her to get by – "instead of having to build roads like many other women.
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A class-action lawsuit has been filed in New York against Sara Bronfman-Igtet, an heiress to the Seagram liquor fortune, alleging she purposely misled students of the controversial self-help group Nxivm whose senior membership is the subject of sex-trafficking allegations.
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Allison Mack Four more people, including a wealthy heir, were arrested Tuesday in New York in connection with the NXIVM self-help group that federal officials say contained a secret sex cult led by Keith Raniere and former Smallville star Allison Mack.
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Back in 2011, when Catherine Oxenberg first brought her daughter, India, to a workshop of the controversial group Nxivm, which billed itself as a self-help group, she thought it would be a way to "bond" with her then 19-year-old daughter.
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Actress Catherine Oxenberg is speaking out about the recent sex-trafficking arrest of Smallville's Allison Mack in connection with controversial self-help group Nxivm — described by one former member as a "cult" — where Mack is suspected of operating as a key lieutenant.
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Prosecutors have accused her of recruiting sex slaves for Keith Raniere, who co-founded the controversial self-help group Nxivm and its subgroup, DOS, described as an all-female secret society in which women allegedly were forced to be sexually subservient to Raniere.
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In his leadership of the upstate New York-based group, which he represented to outsiders as a self-help group, Raniere branded women with his initials and took a series of nude photos of a teenager, among other allegations, according to prosecutors.
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An actress from the television series "Smallville" was charged on Friday with sex trafficking for her involvement in an organization promoting itself as a self-help group for women that forced its members to have sex with its leader, federal prosecutors said.
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The self-help group Nxivm gained a reputation as a "sex cult" last year after its leader, Keith Raniere, was convicted of coercing some of his female followers into sexual servitude, even creating a ritual in which they were branded with his initials.
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Prosecutors said he used his organization Nxivm, which billed itself as a self-help group, to hide a secretive sorority known as DOS in which young women were blackmailed into have sex with him, follow dangerously restrictive diets and be branded with his initials.
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NXIVM's supporters have said it was a self-help group that wanted to change the world for the better, but federal prosecutors claim it was actually an illegal pyramid scheme that funneled money to its leaders and offered its spiritual leader, Keith Raniere, access to sex slaves.
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Raniere, 58, faces charges including sex trafficking and child pornography for allegedly using his self-help group, Nxivm, to hide a secretive sorority known as DOS in which young women were forced to have sex with him, follow dangerously restrictive diets and obey his every command.
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A federal judge has denied a third request for bail from Nxivm founder Keith Raniere, meaning the leader of the controversial New York-based self-help group will remain behind bars until at least April 29 — the scheduled start of his trial on sex trafficking and forced labor charges.
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Keith Raniere MEXICO CITY — Keith Raniere, leader of the self-help group NXIVM who was arrested in the US earlier this week, had been doing business with the Mexican government through a network of companies since 2008, in partnership with two of the most powerful families in Mexico.
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Clare Bronfman, an heiress to the Seagram's liquor fortune, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday in federal court in Brooklyn after her arrest on conspiracy and racketeering charges in connection with her role at Nxivm, a self-help group that prosecutors call a pyramid scheme and former members say is a cult.
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Ostensibly a self-help group advertising "executive success programs," Nxivm has been condemned by former members as a cult, in which female members are ritualistically branded and pressured to engage in sexual "master-slave" relationships with higher-ups in the program, and in particular with the group's founder and leader, Raniere.
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But as he realized what was happening, at age 50 he finally walked into an anonymous self-help group — and a month later, inspired by the stories of other survivors working to shift blame from themselves to their abusers, he went public in 2008 to support a Delaware law removing the statute of limitations on sex assaults against children.
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Image 2 of 2 NEW YORK – An heiress to the Seagram&aposs liquor fortune, a TV actress and the co-founders of a purported self-help group appeared in court together for the first time on Wednesday to face charges in a case accusing the group of branding women and forcing them to have unwanted sex.
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The Mexican woman, who testified last week about her family's entanglement in embattled self-help group NXIVM and was identified in court as Daniela, told a jury about the bizarre circumstances that led to her becoming "trapped," as she put it, without a phone, money, or legal documents—and the trauma she experienced while emotionally cut off from her family with only a pen, paper, and a foam mattress on the floor.
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