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National Briefing | Southwest: New Mexico: Sect Leader Found Guilty

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Dec. 16, 2008
The leader of an apocalyptic religious sect, Wayne Bent, has been convicted in Taos of a count of criminal sexual contact involving one of two under-age sisters.
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