"It's best that he is put away".The sect's future is uncertain.
In some cases that's meant divorcing their husbands and steering their own children away from the sect's marriage-centric culture.
Despite a heavy military and police presence, the sect's adherents have continued to initiate frequent attacks.
Police later found enough sarin in the sect's possession to kill millions of people.
But the sect's shadowy identity makes such claims difficult to verify.
Prosecutors now suspect donations from the sect's members were also used by Chonghaejin Marine, Semo's successor.
The sect's teaching materials, books, posters, audio cassettes and videotapes, have been destroyed.
The author was a member of the Sect, because he reckons by the Sect's special calendar.
Living memory of the sect's magnetic founder, Ann Lee (1736-1784), was fading fast.
By James Wood The puzzle of a small sect's against-all-odds triumph fascinates Carrère.
He is interested in the unlikelihood of the sect's eventual triumph.
