http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:15:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23053/yedidiyah-hawkins-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23053/yedidiyah-hawkins-2#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:11:09 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23053 A judge sentenced a religious sect's elder to 30 years in prison for molesting an 11-year-old girl during a phony cervical cancer exam.

Hawkins has no medical training but used a gynecological medical instrument to examine the girl at a home in 2005, according to trial testimony. A former House of Yahweh member testified that Hawkins actually was worried the girl was not a virgin.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23053/yedidiyah-hawkins-2/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22870/yedidiyah-hawkins http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22870/yedidiyah-hawkins#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:06:01 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22870 Yedidiyah Hawkins, 40, a House of Yahweh elder, was convicted Monday of aggravated sexual assault of a child. A judge will set the sentence, expected within 45 days. Hawkins earlier decided that he wanted a judge to assess the punishment if jurors found him guilty.

The sect's leader, self-proclaimed prophet Yisrayl Hawkins, faces trial later this year on bigamy and child labor charges. He is accused of having more than 20 wives, performing polygamous weddings and forcing about 40 children to work jobs at his 44-acre compound in rural Clyde near Abilene.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22870/yedidiyah-hawkins/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22846/house-of-yahweh-3 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22846/house-of-yahweh-3#comments Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:48:26 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22846 Testimony from a 15-year-old girl revealed new details Friday about the allegations of sexual assault of a child by a House of Yahweh elder.

The girl, 11 at the time of the alleged assault, testified that her stepfather Yedidiyah Hawkins, 40, used a vaginal speculum -- a medical instrument used by gynecologists -- to perform an examination on her. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22846/house-of-yahweh-3/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19681/house-of-yahweh-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19681/house-of-yahweh-2#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:28:28 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19681/house-of-yahweh-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19681/house-of-yahweh-2/feed 0