Category: Church of the Firstborn and the General Assembly of Heaven

A man who pleaded guilty to having sex with a 15-year-old girl at the direction of his prophet has been sentenced to probation, as part of a plea agreement for testifying against the cult’s leader.

Last March Harman testified against Terrill Dalton, the president of the Church of the Firstborn of the General Assembly of Heaven.

A religious cult leader has been sentenced to six years to life for raping his daughter and allowing his friend to rape her as well.

Terrill Dalton, who called himself the ‘Holy Ghost,’ promised the girl “great blessings” if she had sex with him.

Terrill Dalton, leader of the Church of the First Born and the General Assembly of Heaven, has been found guilty of raping his daughter and allowing his friend Geody Harman to rape her as well.

Dalton called himself the “Holy Ghost” while Harman was often referred to as “God in the flesh.”

The leader of a religious sect told a 15-year-old girl he was “the Holy Ghost” and promised her “blessings” before forcing her to have sex with him, prosecutors said Tuesday as the man’s rape trial began.

Terrill Dalton, the president of the Church of the Firstborn of the General Assembly of Heaven, is charged with raping the teen and as a party to rape for allegedly commanding her to have sex with another church leader in 2005.

Bond was set Friday at $250,007 for sect leader Geody Harman, who was arrested Wednesday on a Utah warrant on rape charges.

Harman, describes himself as ‘first counsel of the Holy Ghost’ of the Church of the Firstborn of the General Assembly of Heaven.

The cult’s top man, who claims is the Holy Ghost and the Father of Jesus Christ, has also been arrested.

A religious sect leader who claims to be the Holy Ghost and the father of Jesus Christ was arrested after peacefully surrendering to law enforcement officials, a day after a fellow church leader was arrested at their compound.

Terrill Dalton, president of the Church of the Firstborn of the General Assembly of Heaven, was arrested on a warrant issued by authorities in Salt Lake City on two counts of first-degree rape.

A religious group led by a man who claims to be the Holy Ghost has moved to Montana after a brief stay in a small Idaho town where residents protested the group’s building plans.

Members of the Church of the Firstborn and General Assembly of Heaven had fled to Idaho from Utah last year after their large home in a Salt Lake City suburb was raided by federal officials investigating claims of child sexual abuse and assassination threats against President Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Thomas S. Monson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.