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Painful and Immaculate Heart of Mary

Thursday May 7, 2009

Escaped cult leader Juliano Verbard re-arrested

Police on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion said they had arrested Juliano Verbard, the paedophile leader of an outlawed sect who escaped from prison by helicopter last month.

The 27-year-old founder of the outlawed Christian “Painful and Immaculate Heart of Mary” sect, was jailed for 15 years last year for raping two children.

Monday April 27, 2009

Cult leader Juliano Verbard escapes from jail in hijacked helicopter

Three armed men hijacked a tourist helicopter on Monday and used it to free a cult leader and two of his followers from a prison on the French island of Reunion, in the Indian Ocean.

Freed were cult leader Juliano Verbard, and two of his followers: Verbard’s lover Fabrice Michel, and Jismy Michel, Fabrice’s father.

Juliano Verbard was serving a 15-year term for rapes and sex assaults on children. [video]

Wednesday August 8, 2007

Juliano Verbard • Painful and Immaculate Heart of Mary:

La Reunion: A colonial saga of cults and kidnap

The Indian Ocean outpost has much in common with France. But the story of an abducted boy and a sect which declared him its messiah has shone an unwelcome light on the island.

Sunday August 5, 2007

Juliano Verbard • Painful and Immaculate Heart of Mary:

Child freed, cult members arrested

A 12-year-old boy was released overnight on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion as police arrested a suspected cult guru and his followers over the abduction.