{"id":126186,"date":"2015-11-12T12:31:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T18:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=126186"},"modified":"2015-11-12T12:31:40","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T18:31:40","slug":"maoist-cult-leader-sexually-assaulted-followers-and-kept-daughter-as-slave-for-30-years-court-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=126186","title":{"rendered":"Maoist Cult Leader Sexually Assaulted Followers and Kept Daughter as Slave for 30 Years, Court Hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/crime\/11990783\/Maoist-cult-leader-kept-daughter-as-slave-in-south-London-for-30-years-court-hears.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"firstPar\">\n<blockquote><p>The leader of a Maoist cult raped female followers and kept his own daughter as a slave for 30 years, bullying and brainwashing them all into believing that those who did not worship him would be punished, a court heard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"secondPar\">\n<p>Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, used &#8220;brutal and calculated&#8221; manipulation to subjugate women under his control, repeatedly assaulting some of them them and using violence and sexual degradation to bend them to his will, Southwark Crown Court was told.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"thirdPar\">\n<blockquote><p>He founded a collective in the 1970s called the Workers Institute and used his charisma and energy as a public speaker to draw people to him, it was claimed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s socialism for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. The leader of a Maoist cult raped female followers and kept his own daughter as a slave for 30 years, bullying and brainwashing them all into believing that those who did not worship him would be punished, a court heard. Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, used &#8220;brutal and calculated&#8221; manipulation to subjugate women under his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126187,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126186\/revisions\/126187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}