Sentence examples for former sect from inspiring English sources
Like many others, Ross Chatwin, a building contractor and former sect member, remains in Colorado City with his wife and children.
The sect has also vowed to use profits from its computer companies and other ventures to compensate victims of crimes committed by former sect members.
"All the polygamists all over the world are up in arms over this," said Marvin Wyler, a polygamist and former sect member in Colorado City, Ariz.
In 1999, a former sect member gave the police a diary with an entry saying that 10-month-old Samuel Robidoux died because his parents withheld solid food, contending they were acting on God's instructions.
Benjamin G. Bistline, a former sect member and a historian in Colorado City, Ariz., said the ruling would encourage the church's leaders to continue their practice of polygamy and under-age marriages.
Among the alleged victims is Álvaro Urbina, 35, who claimed he was systematically sexually abused for two years after his mother enrolled him into Sodalitium at the age of 14. Urbina has alleged he was abused by a former sect official – not Figari – who he once considered his "spiritual guide".
The author, Justice Mohammed Islam Bhatti, had written that he belonged to the Ahmedi faith - a former Muslim sect that was declared non-Muslim in Pakistan exactly 40 years ago, and whose members have since then been prosecuted by the state and hounded by religious groups with equal gusto.
Five former members of the sect are trying to hold its founder and other leaders to account.
Meanwhile, the most visible interpreters of F.L.D.S. culture have been two highly critical former members of the sect, Elissa Wall and Carolyn Jessop.
The sect's former guru, Shoko Asahara, is on trial for masterminding the subway attack and other crimes, including an earlier nerve gas attack in central Japan.
"They are Muslims like me so I have sympathy with them," said Mohammed Abubakar, 35, a nurse living close to the sect's former headquarters that now lies gutted.
