Shin Ok-ju founded the Grace Road Church and subjected her followers to beatings, a court in South Korea has ruled.
A former follower told a South Korean TV program:"A son beat his father 100 to 200 times at a ground thrashing session."
Another congregant was hit more than 600 times and he died after returning home One follower told a local news program, according to the"they are being treated as if they were farm oxen rather than human beings ... It was like hell there." Shin had denied the claims. Her son, Daniel Kim, accused followers who had left the cult of slandering the church.last year that the threshing was not a crime because it was done by consent. He also denied that the followers were forced into labor, telling the network:"They don't really know what is going on here."
After the sentence was handed out on Tuesday, some followers in Seoul, who had attended the trial, protested. Children float on a bamboo pontoon off the Coral Coast of Fiji, in this illustrative image. Followers of a South Korean cult came to the island, where they were subject to beatings, a court near Seoul has heard."This is outrageous! Tell them [the victims] to stop lying. Knock it off! We are all angry", a female follower shouted at journalists,
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