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Friday October 31, 2008
Lord Our Righteousness Church • Michael Travesser • Strong City • Wayne Bent:
The leader of an apocalyptic sect who is accused of sex crimes against underage female followers has been arrested for failing to appear in court.Wayne Bent, who wants people to think he is Jesus, had promised to no longer cooperate with court proceedings.
According to him, his prosecution will lead to dire consequences for the world.
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Monday October 27, 2008
Lord Our Righteousness Church • Michael Travesser • Strong City • Wayne Bent:
Wayne Bent said it was 10 in the morning on a July day eight years ago when he was anointed by God as he sat in the same soft purple chair on which he relaxed during a recent interview.
“I was sitting there just looking out the window, not thinking of anything, not praying,” he said. “And suddenly Father came to me and called me Messiah.”
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Wednesday October 22, 2008
Lord Our Righteousness Church • Michael Travesser • Strong City • Wayne Bent:
The case against cult leader Wayne Bent — who believes he is the second coming of Jesus, but who also is accused of sexual contact with some of his teenage followers — will go to trial next month.In a statement posted on his web site Bent predicts his prosecution will bring about the end of the world, and blames Wall Street’s financial crisis on the investigation into his activities.
The statement provides ample evidence of Bent’s religious delusions.
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Monday October 13, 2008
Lord Our Righteousness Church • Michael Travesser • Strong City • Wayne Bent:
Cult leader and self-proclaimed messiah Wayne Bent claims his “persecution” is bringing about the end of the world.
Bent, who also goes by the name Michael Travesser, is awaiting trial in Union County after he was accused of lying naked with underage nude girls.
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Monday July 21, 2008
Lord Our Righteousness Church • Michael Travesser • Strong City • Wayne Bent:
Cult leader Wayne Bent, who considers himself to be the ‘Messiah,’ last May was indicated on charges of sexually abusing several of his followers.In April, four teenagers were removed from his compound. According to Bent himself, some of them had laid down naked with him as a witness to his alleged divinity. [video]
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Wednesday June 18, 2008
Lord Our Righteousness Church • Michael Travesser • Strong City • Wayne Bent:
A video posted on the Web site of The Lord Our Righteousness Church showed Bent eating lunch with Willow and her parents. The video showed the girl being embraced by Bent and other church members as she arrived at Strong City, as sect members call their community.
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Sunday June 8, 2008
Lord Our Righteousness Church • Michael Travesser • Strong City • Wayne Bent:
The leader of an apocalyptic sect accused of sex crimes against underage female followers said Friday he will not eat until state child welfare workers return a teenager who was removed from the sect’s compound. » Full Story
Wednesday May 21, 2008
Lord Our Righteousness Church • Michael Travesser • Strong City • Wayne Bent:
Wayne Bent, who who thinks he is the Son of God, was indicted Tuesday in a new court on suspicion of sex crimes against two young female followers. [video]
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Tuesday May 13, 2008
Lord Our Righteousness Church • Michael Travesser • Strong City • Wayne Bent:
“Jesus was betrayed by a former disciple. He was arraigned on false charges, he was buried. He was crucified and buried. And the district attorney has his own purpose to bury my dad. He wants to make a name for himself by burying a cult leader so he can be elected,” Jeff Bent said.
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Saturday May 10, 2008
Lord Our Righteousness Church • Michael Travesser • Strong City • Wayne Bent:
The clerk of the magistrate court in Clayton said a $55,000 bond was posted for Wayne Bent by his son.
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Thursday May 8, 2008
Lord Our Righteousness Church • Michael Travesser • Strong City • Wayne Bent:
Bent, 66, is the leader of The Lord Our Righteousness Church, whose members moved in 2000 to a remote former ranch near the Colorado line that they call Strong City. He has acknowledged having sex with followers and lying naked with virgins, but denies any children or adults were molested. He has said the virgins asked for sex and he refused.
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Lord Our Righteousness Church • Michael Travesser • Strong City • Wayne Bent:
Bent—whose adopted name Travesser is the name of a creek in the area—is a former Seventh-day Adventist minister who separated from that church in 1987 and formed The Lord Our Righteousness movement. He announced in 2000 that he is the Messiah.
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Lord Our Righteousness Church • Michael Travesser • Strong City • Wayne Bent:
There is much to make the jaw drop in “Inside a Cult,” a timely documentary about the Strong City sect in New Mexico being shown on Wednesday on the National Geographic Channel. But by its end you may feel that the most stunning thing is that this film exists at all. Why would these people have let a documentarian get so close to their exceedingly eccentric world?
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Wednesday May 7, 2008
Lord Our Righteousness Church • Michael Travesser • Strong City • Wayne Bent:
Take a look inside the religious cult led by Wayne Bent (aka Michael Travesser), the cult leader arrested yesterday on sex charges.
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Tuesday May 6, 2008
Lord Our Righteousness Church • Michael Travesser • Strong City:
A self-described Messiah was arrested on sex charges involving minors two weeks after state officials took three teenagers from his New Mexico compound amid allegations of sexual abuse, authorities in New Mexico confirmed to ABC News today.
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Lord Our Righteousness Church • Michael Travesser • Strong City • Wayne Bent:
Cult leader Michael Travesser, real name Wayne Bent, has been arrested. Bent has acknowledged having sex with followers — including his daughter-in-law — and lying naked with virgins. He said the virgins asked for sex, but he refused.
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Monday May 5, 2008
Lord Our Righteousness Church • Michael Travesser • Strong City • Wayne Bent:
Michael Travesser says being a cult leader requires great sacrifice. In his case, that includes bedding his son’s wife, getting naked with teenage girls and pocketing his followers’ worldly possessions.
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Friday May 2, 2008
Lord Our Righteousness Church • Michael Travesser • Strong City • Wayne Bent:
“Esther,” a cult member, described her interaction with Travesser. “He took me to bed and laid me down and somehow it was like all of heaven was open to me, somehow I started to see God, after all he is the son of God,” she told National Geographic.
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Lord Our Righteousness Church • Michael Travesser • Strong City • Wayne Bent:
Michael “said God told him that he was supposed to sleep with seven virgins,” recalled Sayer, 36. Two were to be Sayer’s daughters, then ages 14 and 15. “I just told him no. … I’m not in agreement. I don’t see it’s right,” Sayer said.
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Lord Our Righteousness Church • Michael Travesser • Strong City • Wayne Bent:
Travesser, who also goes by the name Wayne Bent, broke from the Seven Day Adventist church in 1987 to form his Lord of Our Righteousness Church. On the group’s Web site, Travesser, 66, describes being annointed the messiah by God in 2000, shortly after moving to the New Mexico property in the state’s northeastern corner.
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Thursday May 1, 2008
Lord Our Righteousness Church • Michael Travesser • Strong City • Wayne Bent:
Members of an apocalyptic church have had a mellow relationship with people in this northeastern New Mexico ranching community, now abuzz about the removal of three children from the church’s secluded compound.
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Lord Our Righteousness Church • Michael Travesser • Strong City • Wayne Bent:
Child welfare workers backed by State Police have removed four children from a doomsday cult in northeastern New Mexico, whose leader has acknowledged having sex with followers and being with “virgins that laid upon my bed, naked.”
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Wednesday April 30, 2008
Lord Our Righteousness Church • Michael Travesser • Strong City • Wayne Bent:
The head of a cult based in northeastern New Mexico has gone on a hunger strike and issued a threat to Governor Bill Richardson after four children were removed from the cult’s compound by state officials.
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Lord Our Righteousness Church • Michael Travesser • Strong City • Wayne Bent:
State police in northeastern New Mexico have removed four children from the compound of an apocalyptic church, whose leader claims to be the Messiah and acknowledges having sex with followers.
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Wednesday December 12, 2007
Michael Travesser • Strong City • Wayne Bent:
As leader of a cult in a remote corner of New Mexico called Strong City, this 66-year-old former sailor, previously called Wayne Bent, has spent nearly 20 years preparing his 56 unquestioning and devoted followers for Doomsday.
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