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Wayne Bent | Wayne Bent Cult | Michael Travesser | Strong City | Strong City Cult | Bent on Hunger strike in Prison

Posted on: December 24, 2009 at 10:28 am | 487 views




Wayne Bent | Wayne Bent Cult | Michael Travesser | Strong City |  Strong City Cult | Bent on Hunger strike  in Prison

A former church member has alleged that Bent told his congregation that “God told him that he was supposed to sleep with seven virgins,” including the member’s own daughters, then only 14 and 15 years old; the man, John Sayer, refused but continued to allow his youngest daughter to reside at Strong City, while the oldest chose not to return. Though he left the compound with his wife and daughters after being a church member for sixteen years, Sayer, himself, again returned his 14-year-old daughter, a second time, to the cult’s compound. According to Sayer, she was one of three minors taken into state custody for their own protection in April 2008.Bent has said he’s had sex with his followers, including a woman who was married to his son, but asserts that though he lay “naked with virgins” and the virgins asked him for sex, he refused

A New Mexico state CYFD (Children, Youth and Families Department) spokeswoman said that three minor teens were taken from the compound in the days after an April 22, 2008, investigation.

The state judge hearing the case has issued a gag order, and state officials have provided no further details of the investigation.

Two weeks after the children were removed and the gag order was in place, Bent was arrested by the New Mexico State Police. The charges were three counts of criminal sexual contact with a minor and three counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The ages and genders of the children in state custody were made public: a 16-year-old boy, a 16-year-old girl and a 13-year-old girl. He was held on $500,000 bond with an arraignment scheduled for May 8, 2008. Following his arraignment, the judge reduced the bail to $50,000; as of May 9th, he remained incarcerated.

The initial charges refer to Bent having inappropriately touched three minor girls in 2006 and 2007. According to the state Department of Public Safety, one of the girls no longer lives in the community.

Bent also freely admits having sexual intercourse multiple times with his son’s former wife. They were divorced when this took place. Both he and his son state that “God forced Michael” to commit this act of consummation.

A June 17 update from Wayne Bent/Michael Travesser’s web site and other news reports state that New Mexico authorities released one of the young women previously taken from the compound from state custody.

Both the prosecution and the defense excused one judge in the case. Union County Judge Gerald E. Baca was appointed the case on July 2, 2008. The jury trial started November 17, 2008.

An Albuquerque news station reported that as of September 11th 2009 Bent has been on hunger strike while in prison, a judge has ordered that force feeding be used should it become necessary. According to the church’s website, Mr. Bent entered a religious fast that takes the form of a Jubilee fast. It is also noted that his fast is a protest of his imprisonment ‘because of a lie’.(Wiki)





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