On Wednesday, Paul Mackenzie and thirty of his supporters appeared before a Kenyan court in the coastal town of Malindi, where they were accused with killing 191 children.
On Wednesday, Paul Mackenzie and thirty of his supporters appeared before a Kenyan court in the coastal town of Malindi, where they were accused with killing 191 children.
Kenya’s capital, Nairobi Paul Mackenzie, the leader of the doomsday cult, and thirty of his adherents appeared in court in Malindi, a seaside town in Kenya, on Wednesday, where they were accused of killing 191 children.
The prosecution’s case sheet states that 180 of the 191 murdered children’s remains have not been positively identified.
The prosecution’s case sheet states that 180 of the 191 murdered children’s remains have not been positively identified.
The remains were found in numerous shallow graves on an 800-acre ranch in the isolated Kilifi County coastline region, in a place known as Shakahola Forest. Following the discovery of the graves, authorities were called to the aid of fifteen malnourished churchgoers, who informed them that Mackenzie had given them orders to fast till the end of the world. When the 15 were brought to a hospital, four of them passed away.
The remains were found in numerous shallow graves on an 800-acre ranch in the isolated Kilifi County coastline region, in a place known as Shakahola Forest. Following the discovery of the graves, authorities were called to the aid of fifteen malnourished churchgoers, who informed them that Mackenzie had given them orders to fast till the end of the world. When the 15 were brought to a hospital, four of them passed away.
Some of the victims discovered in the graves had autopsies that revealed their causes of death to be malnutrition, strangling, or asphyxia.
The top prosecutor in Kenya announced on Monday that 95 individuals will face charges ranging from child abuse and cruelty to murder and other offenses.
Prosecutors have been pleading with a Kilifi court for months to be allowed to retain the defendants while the inquiry is ongoing, ever since their arrest in April of last year. However, Principal Magistrate Yousuf Shikanda rejected their most recent appeal last week, stating that the prosecutors had plenty time to wrap up the investigation, to keep the suspects in custody for an extra sixty days.
A second one-year prison sentence is being served by Mackenzie, who was found guilty of running a film studio and making movies for his sermons without a proper license.
According to reports, Mackenzie urged churchgoers to relocate to Shakahola Forest in order to get ready for the end of the world.
According to a Senate committee report, Mackenzie selected the region because of its isolation.
According to the article, “followers were not allowed to leave the area once inside the villages established by Mackenzie, nor interact within themselves.”
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