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	<title>Religion News Blog &#187; The Body</title>
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		<title>Court upholds Robidoux murder conviction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The state Supreme Judicial Court has affirmed the first-degree murder conviction of Jacques Robidoux, the infamous Attleboro cultist who allowed his infant son Samuel to starve to death because, he claimed, it’s what God wanted.]]></description>
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		<title>Former sect leader loses bid for new trial in son&#8217;s death</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Massachusetts' highest court has denied a new trial for a former leader of a religious sect who was convicted of murder in the starvation death of his infant son.]]></description>
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		<title>Massachusetts Supreme Court take up cult father appeal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 09:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fate of former Attleboro religious cult father Jacques Robidoux, who once thought the court system was a manifestation of Satan, is now in the hands of the state's highest court.]]></description>
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		<title>Former sect leader appeals conviction in son&#8217;s starvation death</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Jacques Robidoux was charged with murder in the starvation death of his infant son, he refused to be examined by a psychotherapist, citing his belief that modern medicine was one of Satan's "counterfeit systems."]]></description>
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		<title>Attleboro cultist who starved son to death wants new trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bob Pardon, a cult expert who has studied the Attleboro group extensively, said Jacques Robidoux was scapegoated in the case and “took the fall” for his iron-fisted dad.]]></description>
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		<title>Attleboro cult: Jacques Robidoux appeal set</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The state Supreme Judicial Court will hear arguments Friday that an Attleboro religious cult father was brainwashed when he starved his 1-year-old son to death in 1999.]]></description>
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		<title>Sect founder Robidoux dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ATTLEBORO &#8212; Roland Robidoux, the founder of a local religious cult whose beliefs led to the starvation death of his grandson, has died, apparently after a lengthy illness, authorities said Wednesday.
Police were called to the group&#8217;s home at 196-198 Knight Ave. late Tuesday afternoon where Robidoux, 65, was found dead, police Capt. David Proia said.
Family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New trial denied</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ATTLEBORO &#8212; Jacques Robidoux, the Attleboro religious cult father who now claims he was brainwashed when he starved his almost 1-year-old son to death in 1999, has lost his bid for a new trial.
Robidoux, who was a leader in the cult founded by his father, Roland, is serving a life prison term without parole for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cult-ivating a new defense</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sect leader serving life for starving son claims he was brainwashed
Killer cult dad Jacques Robidoux has pulled away from the controversial religious sect and is seeking a new trial, copping an insanity plea similar to one that got his wife off the hook for their sons 1999 starvation death.
Hes reconsidering everything, said Robert Pardon, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cult dad seeking new trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ATTLEBORO &#8212; Jacques Robidoux, the Attleboro religious cult father imprisoned for starving his son to death, is seeking a new trial on the grounds that his original trial lawyer failed to seek an insanity defense.
Robidoux, 32, now says he was brainwashed by the cult, known as &#8220; The Body,&#8221; led by his father Roland Robidoux, [...]]]></description>
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