JUST IN: Sex-cult leader Keith Raniere found guilty of sex trafficking, child porn charges in NXIVM trial
A federal jury convicted a New York man Wednesday on multiple charges stemming from a cult-like group that kept women as virtual sex prisoners to service him.
Within NXIVM, he created a secret sorority called DOS in which female"slaves" turned over compromising materials that were used to blackmail and force them into sex, prosecutors said.Several of Raniere's cohorts, such as"Smallville" actress Allison Mack, had already pleaded guilty.after she admitted to committing offenses that included extortion and forced labor in her role as a high-ranking member of NXIVM.
Lauren Salzman testified that she and her co-defendants brainwashed women and pushed them to be obedient. A written instruction for sorority members was,The organization collected nude pictures and other compromising material of female members and called it"collateral" that would ensure their silence,One witness said she was told to seduce Raniere in 2015, and couldn't refuse because another woman who was her"master" had collected embarrassing material from her.
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