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True Crime Documentary - Wayne Bent： Inside America’s Doomsday Cult · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

• 0:26
  Speaker 1: You had these folks who are way out in the
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: wilderness in the northeast corner of New Mexico.
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: There is one hope for the nation and the world,
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: and that is to believe in me.
• 0:39
  Speaker 3: There was nothing he could say that they would disagree with.
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: I am the second Coming of Christ.
• 0:46
  Speaker 4: He took two of the wives from two of the
• 0:48
  Speaker 4: men in the church.
• 0:50
  Speaker 5: Freely admitted they had with Wayne Bett.
• 0:53
  Speaker 6: I am fully yielded to him, and they left their
• 0:56
  Speaker 6: kids and their husbands.
• 0:58
  Speaker 5: One was his son's wife.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: He was sleeping with his son's wife, and Wayne would
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: tell them it is God's will.
• 1:05
  Speaker 6: He molested everybody's hearts and minds. He destroyed a lot
• 1:08
  Speaker 6: of families.
• 1:09
  Speaker 5: There's starting to be these admissions to potential bocts with children.
• 1:14
  Speaker 7: He's my husband.
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  Speaker 8: So you're twelve years old and you have a husband.
• 1:18
  Speaker 7: Yes, I love you. I love you.
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: The world thinks that you're hypnotized. But what you have done,
• 1:29
  Speaker 2: your great crime, is that you have believed me.
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  Speaker 9: I am glad, I'm all might peril.
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  Speaker 10: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: The world was going to end on October thirty first.
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: That was the day that everybody was counting down towards.
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  Speaker 3: They were dooms.
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  Speaker 11: They called.
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  Speaker 3: They believed that the end of the world was coming.
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  Speaker 2: We are no longer.
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  Speaker 12: They all came out and sang songs, and they waited for.
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  Speaker 5: It to happen, and it didn't happen, but it got
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  Speaker 5: them attention.
• 2:36
  Speaker 4: It was like a magnet, and I got pulled into
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  Speaker 4: the Lord r Rightishness, which was run by a man
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  Speaker 4: named Wayne Bent.
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  Speaker 2: But the sign of the Son of Man has appeared,
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  Speaker 2: and it will get brighter and brighter and brighter until
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing is burned up, the whole world destroyed
• 3:02
  Speaker 2: by fire. There is one hope for the nation and
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  Speaker 2: the world, and that is to believe in me.
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  Speaker 3: Broke away from the Seventh Aird and Cist Church. His
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  Speaker 3: wife's just left him. So he decides, why don't we
• 3:27
  Speaker 3: go off and start our own group.
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  Speaker 4: And we were drawn into it, and so that's how
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  Speaker 4: it got started.
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  Speaker 6: From the very first day that I was part of
• 3:42
  Speaker 6: this group. Jesus was supposed to be coming in like
• 3:44
  Speaker 6: six months, and I was seventeen, So why get an education, why,
• 3:54
  Speaker 6: you know, be successful at anything?
• 3:57
  Speaker 13: Why?
• 3:59
  Speaker 6: Because as Jesus was coming and then we would all
• 4:02
  Speaker 6: go to heaven. So at first we were in Idaho
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  Speaker 6: and then Wayne ended up trading that property for property
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  Speaker 6: in New Mexico.
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  Speaker 3: You're driving on this dirt road for forty miles and
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  Speaker 3: eventually you come to this gate.
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  Speaker 1: You had these folks who are way out in the
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  Speaker 1: wilderness in the northeast corner of New Mexico, and it
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: looks like little house on the prairie.
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  Speaker 3: They were growing their own crops, they were living off
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  Speaker 3: the grid. They were homeschooling their kids.
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  Speaker 5: The name that we generally referred to the people out
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  Speaker 5: there was either the Lord of the Righteousness Church or
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  Speaker 5: the Strong City Compound or call.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't object to the word cult, he said, I
• 4:49
  Speaker 3: don't object to that. It comes from the word culture.
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  Speaker 4: It was very coldish. The church owns all the property.
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  Speaker 4: What we did is we turned our paycheck over to
• 5:00
  Speaker 4: the church, gave them the whole check, and then they
• 5:04
  Speaker 4: in turn bought everything we needed. And we couldn't leave
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  Speaker 4: because he owned everything, you know, and so we were
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  Speaker 4: stuck there.
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  Speaker 3: There's no going back. It's all or nothing, and so
• 5:18
  Speaker 3: all you want is for this guy to love you.
• 5:23
  Speaker 3: They're pussy in his hands.
• 5:26
  Speaker 4: Wayne went out for one of his walks out in
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  Speaker 4: the woods, so he was gone for several days and
• 5:31
  Speaker 4: he came back, and that's when he told us that
• 5:34
  Speaker 4: God had entered him.
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  Speaker 2: This is the revealing, the appearing of Christ.
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  Speaker 14: This is what's happening now.
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  Speaker 5: In me.
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  Speaker 2: And in everyone who.
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  Speaker 15: Believes my testimony. I am the second coming of Christ.
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  Speaker 4: And that's when everything changed. When he spoke as God,
• 6:02
  Speaker 4: it was God, this is what we were told to believe,
• 6:05
  Speaker 4: and his word was word.
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  Speaker 2: I want to tell you the truth. Heaven has come
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  Speaker 2: down here. Just like Lucifer was in heaven a long
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  Speaker 2: time ago and didn't see it, you have been in
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  Speaker 2: heaven and haven't seen it, but you're seeing it now.
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  Speaker 6: My mom came over one day and she's like, who
• 6:33
  Speaker 6: do you think Wayne is? And I was like, Wayne,
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  Speaker 6: What she was getting at is that you know he
• 6:42
  Speaker 6: was God in the flesh.
• 6:44
  Speaker 2: Jesus, the Kingdom of God is in your midst and
• 6:51
  Speaker 2: is within you. So the whole world is making this
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  Speaker 2: decision that you're making right in this room. For if
• 7:00
  Speaker 2: they hear my voice and respond to it, they have
• 7:09
  Speaker 2: the light shining in them. But if they will not
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  Speaker 2: hear me, they are not God's sons.
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  Speaker 4: He changed his name from Wayne Band to Michael.
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  Speaker 15: Travesser Professor is where we live here. This is an
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  Speaker 15: area called Travessor And Michael is interpreted one who is
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  Speaker 15: like God. And in the scriptures, Michael was always a
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  Speaker 15: deliverance angel. And so it's the work that I've had
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  Speaker 15: to do here.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, Seventh Day advertisby that Michael the Archangel is
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  Speaker 4: Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 8: You see that you're Michael and Michael the Archangel, that
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  Speaker 8: they're one and the same.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, So he was calling himself Christ by calling himself Michael,
• 8:01
  Speaker 4: and you didn't want to say anything against it because
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  Speaker 4: you get kicked out and then you leave with nothing.
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  Speaker 4: So we were living a life that was in denial
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  Speaker 4: and we were trapped.
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  Speaker 3: There were very internet literaate. They had two or three websites.
• 8:24
  Speaker 4: He said, we have to master the Internet, and he
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  Speaker 4: put a lot of the church's talent and resources into that.
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  Speaker 4: I think we probably spent a couple of million dollars
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  Speaker 4: on our marketing. It brought in some good sized donations.
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  Speaker 4: We ended up with a church in Costa Rica, we
• 8:43
  Speaker 4: had a church in Europe, and I think at one
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  Speaker 4: point we had close to four hundred members worldwide.
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  Speaker 3: And when he realized that these people were hanging on
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  Speaker 3: his every word, that there was nothing he could say
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  Speaker 3: that they would disagree with. Then he could do anything,
• 9:02
  Speaker 3: and he could twist this to his own ends.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus has a new name now, it's Michael. Michael is
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  Speaker 2: the Angel of deliverance. So the question is do you
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  Speaker 2: believe me and do you have the answering chord within
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  Speaker 2: yourself that these things are true?
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  Speaker 5: And these followers you got to understand, these weren't just
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  Speaker 5: uneducated people. There were people with master's degrees, doctor degrees.
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  Speaker 11: And today I was sitting here and I just had,
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  Speaker 11: I just think, a very very great love for Michael,
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  Speaker 11: and it was just so strong. I the almost cry,
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  Speaker 11: and I just it's just been so wonderful to have
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  Speaker 11: those things on me, I think Father for.
• 10:01
  Speaker 5: And so it was kind of what was next, and
• 10:04
  Speaker 5: that's where this vision that came out to everybody. The
• 10:08
  Speaker 5: next component the seven Messengers or seven Virgins.
• 10:27
  Speaker 2: You see me, Everyone is seeing me, and I have
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: come down from heaven and I have come with all
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  Speaker 2: of my holy angels.
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  Speaker 4: Also, there was stuff in the scripture about the seven virgins.
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  Speaker 4: He took that literally and manipulated everything to make it
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  Speaker 4: happen so that he could say, I'm the guy.
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: My instructions were to do as I was asked.
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  Speaker 4: He took two of the wives from two of the
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  Speaker 4: men in the church, and they became his two witnesses.
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  Speaker 4: So he was technically married to him, and they were
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  Speaker 4: just hung on him everywhere they went.
• 11:14
  Speaker 2: It wasn't a secret. This was not done in secret,
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  Speaker 2: and that's why we've made this movie.
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  Speaker 8: Who are you? I told you I'm Michael's wife.
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  Speaker 9: What is your name?
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  Speaker 7: My name is Omian.
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  Speaker 9: What are you a captive of this co leader that
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  Speaker 9: is introvessor? And he won't let you go? That's right,
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  Speaker 9: It's probably more like I won't let him go.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, I love you, Michael.
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  Speaker 5: You can see an in videos. They kind of sat
• 12:02
  Speaker 5: at his beck and call freely admitted they had with
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  Speaker 5: Wayne Bett.
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  Speaker 16: I am willing to let him bring me to be
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  Speaker 16: naked and unashamed so that his son can come into
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  Speaker 16: the very depths of my being. I am fully yielded
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  Speaker 16: to him.
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  Speaker 8: Who are you and I as your besser?
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  Speaker 10: Hey?
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  Speaker 8: What are you.
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  Speaker 9: My witness to the appearing of Messiah?
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  Speaker 8: Okay? Are you help captive here?
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  Speaker 9: And you can't get away?
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  Speaker 15: Now?
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  Speaker 8: That's very funny. What would you like to ask me?
• 12:43
  Speaker 9: How is it that you're so beautiful?
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  Speaker 15: That's my question.
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  Speaker 6: Indeed, I knew both of the ladies. I knew their families.
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  Speaker 6: They're my friends, and they left their kids and their husbands.
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  Speaker 8: How do you feel about your mother being one of
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  Speaker 8: the witnesses.
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  Speaker 7: It's been really painful to have my family broken up.
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  Speaker 7: It's like the consummation took my mom away from me.
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  Speaker 7: It's it wasn't an easy thing. But when I look
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  Speaker 7: at her, and when I see how happy she is
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  Speaker 7: and how much she loves Michael, it's like it makes
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  Speaker 7: it all worth it.
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  Speaker 17: I remember the husband of one of them. He would
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  Speaker 17: go out on the gravel road and I would see
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  Speaker 17: about to shake it his fist at the heavens, so
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  Speaker 17: angry at God.
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  Speaker 11: Why why?
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  Speaker 4: Why did Wayne take my wife away from me? He
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  Speaker 4: was so angry, so lost.
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  Speaker 18: Father is asking too much. Not only is he taking
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  Speaker 18: my wife, but now he is asking Michael to make
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  Speaker 18: love to her. I have been willing, reluctantly to submit
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  Speaker 18: to my crummy circumstances. Father was going to have his way.
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  Speaker 1: Men who've been married for decades remained even after Wayne
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  Speaker 1: took their wives or their wives went to him, however,
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  Speaker 1: you want to see it, and Wayne would tell them
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  Speaker 1: it is God's will and you are being tested.
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  Speaker 18: I could offer no explanation as to why I was
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  Speaker 18: doing this thing, giving my wife and the mother of our.
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  Speaker 8: Child to Messiah. I was simply following the father's inner promptings.
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  Speaker 6: Wayne said that he came to divide families, right, and
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  Speaker 6: so pretty much everybody left their husbands. He destroyed a
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  Speaker 6: lot of families, a lot of kids.
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  Speaker 8: Some people call it adultery.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I know what the earth view of it looks like.
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  Speaker 7: It looks like Michael committed adultery.
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  Speaker 11: But I know that he didn't because he followed his
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  Speaker 11: instructions and.
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  Speaker 7: I believe him.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody was google eyed. All the women were google eyed
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  Speaker 4: over you.
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  Speaker 5: One was his son's wife. He was sleeping with his
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: son's wife.
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  Speaker 6: Wendy, his daughter in law, became one of Wayne's wives.
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  Speaker 3: Jeff was, by the way, a former cop until he
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: brought into his dad's message that his dad was the
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  Speaker 3: son of God. That's part of the test, right. He's
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: going to take these women away from their husbands and
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: then he's going to dare them to leave, and to
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: say that this isn't ordained by God, and he's going
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  Speaker 3: to say this is killing me as well. It's killing
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  Speaker 3: your wife, it's killing me, it's killing you. But your
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: pain isn't any more than mine or theirs.
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: My marriage with Lilian was, to actually believe it or not,
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  Speaker 4: was the very lash marriage that dissolved there. We just
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: never ever in our whole marriage, our experience. But then
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: we never had crosswords, never a fight, and for me
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: to have flashed my wife is it was just a
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: horrible thing. Then he started doing the nude healings with
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: the underage kids, the skin on skin ceremonies. You know,
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: that was when I couldn't live with that, and that's
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: when I made the decision. I got to get out
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: of there.
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  Speaker 10: Remember, I'm responsible for you.
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  Speaker 7: Here, I am.
• 16:32
  Speaker 10: There, you are? What's on your heart?
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  Speaker 2: What do you see.
• 16:41
  Speaker 7: That you're beautiful?
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  Speaker 5: Wayne Bent would talk about that he had more authority
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: than a doctor, than a rabbi to heal and that's
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: where some of the children that got involved in this case,
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: they were talking about this idea of wanting to be
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: closer to God.
• 17:00
  Speaker 13: You.
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  Speaker 15: I love you, I wanted to hear it.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 10: How that comes out of here and I love you,
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  Speaker 10: That's why I'm here.
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  Speaker 5: There's starting to be these admissions to potential facts with children.
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  Speaker 5: They are legal names at the time. Lakeisha and Ashley.
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  Speaker 8: What's your earthly name?
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  Speaker 7: Keisha are twelve and.
• 17:46
  Speaker 8: What's the new name father's given you? What does that mean?
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  Speaker 10: Daughter?
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  Speaker 5: They weren't shy about it. They talked about what they experienced.
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  Speaker 8: What is Michael to you?
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  Speaker 7: He's my husband?
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  Speaker 8: Your husband? Seeing you're twelve years old and you had
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: a husband? Yeah, what does that mean?
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  Speaker 7: It means to one with him?
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  Speaker 5: Lakeisha talked about you know. It came to her in
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  Speaker 5: a message in July of two thousand and six. She
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  Speaker 5: came in the middle of the night, approached his trailer,
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  Speaker 5: asked to come in, asked to lay naked with him
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  Speaker 5: where she said that she was healed by being skinned
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  Speaker 5: to skin with God.
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  Speaker 6: That's when I said, why isn't someone saying something? Why
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: isn't someone doing something like this is wrong? They're little girls,
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: he's an old man. Will they call it a healing ritual?
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  Speaker 16: No?
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  Speaker 6: If something is wrong, it's wrong. And if I think
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: something is wrong, I'm going to stick up for what's right.
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  Speaker 6: And so I just went with him to the sheriff.
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  Speaker 12: When I spoke with the girls, it was to talk
• 19:03
  Speaker 12: to them about possibility of testifying in trial. Actually was
• 19:07
  Speaker 12: a little more willing to tell her story. Lakeisha also was,
• 19:12
  Speaker 12: but she was more defensive of Wayne Bent. Lakeisha was,
• 19:17
  Speaker 12: you know, insistent that Wayne Bent is Jesus, is the Messiah,
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  Speaker 12: and that anything he did or didn't do was okay
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  Speaker 12: with her.
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  Speaker 7: When I looked at him, he wasn't the way I
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  Speaker 7: saw him before. He was different. Who I saw was Jesus.
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  Speaker 7: He wasn't the person I saw before. He was Jesus.
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  Speaker 7: And when I walked out the door, and all I
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: could do is cry because it was so touching and
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  Speaker 7: sweet to me, I've never had it happen before. He
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  Speaker 7: said that Father opened my eyes to see.
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  Speaker 5: The acts they did were the result of suggestion.
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  Speaker 12: And that's another way of saying grooming, And that's another
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  Speaker 12: way of saying brainwashing or indoctrination, at.
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  Speaker 5: Least to me.
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  Speaker 7: One thing I know is that Father told him to
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: do it, and I know that I know that he
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: wouldn't have done it if Father didn't tell him.
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  Speaker 2: To the world thinks that you're hypnotized, but what you
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: have done your great crime is that you have believed me.
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  Speaker 5: So grand jury was convened in Clayton, New Mexico. Wayne
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: Bent didn't deny what happened.
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  Speaker 19: We'd like to talk with you about those charges, if
• 20:56
  Speaker 19: you wanted to talk with us.
• 20:58
  Speaker 14: With Lakeisha, there was a connections that connection you said
• 21:02
  Speaker 14: it was, but you.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Were both naked together, So what kind of connections there there?
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  Speaker 2: Put my hand on her sternum, never touched breasts, never
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: touched private parts, legs, but never touched you in this
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  Speaker 2: part of any of them.
• 21:21
  Speaker 14: So they say that you did, are they like, well,
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  Speaker 14: they just didn't. When they say that you did, are
• 21:29
  Speaker 14: they like did a Keisha?
• 21:31
  Speaker 15: Say that?
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  Speaker 7: I'm asking you.
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  Speaker 14: When they say that that did happen? Are they like, well,
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  Speaker 14: I don't. I don't have any thought about that. So
• 21:45
  Speaker 14: when they say that, if if.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: They, if any of them said I touched them on
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: the breast, it just did not happen. Well, mister Betts,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: to be honest with you, don't believe. No, I don't
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  Speaker 2: explain you too.
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  Speaker 15: I mean about sending with girls.
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  Speaker 12: If there's something about how with tiners like naked in
• 22:04
  Speaker 12: your bed, that obviously is I don't have it would
• 22:08
  Speaker 12: you agree.
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  Speaker 15: With that's wrong.
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  Speaker 2: No, not when God commands it.
• 22:16
  Speaker 12: Wayne Bent's attitude in his grand jury testimony was always
• 22:22
  Speaker 12: those are healing ceremonies. The girls came to me with
• 22:26
  Speaker 12: their own free will. No one forced them to be here.
• 22:30
  Speaker 12: I had contact with them, but never in a way.
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  Speaker 12: He believed that the only law that was applicable with
• 22:37
  Speaker 12: God's law. And if God told him to lie down
• 22:40
  Speaker 12: naked with little girls, then he's just following God's law.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: The world promises you many things, but it gives you nothing,
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  Speaker 2: and I give you everything.
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  Speaker 12: Our case was always very simple. It's very simple. The
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  Speaker 12: law of New Mexico says you do not touch a
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  Speaker 12: child on an intimate part.
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  Speaker 18: The leader of a New Mexico sect scene here appearing
• 23:12
  Speaker 18: for a court hearing, claims to be the Messiah.
• 23:15
  Speaker 10: He's accused of being appropriately touching three underage female followers.
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  Speaker 20: Is an innocent man who's being crucified by those who
• 23:21
  Speaker 20: have an agenda against him.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: You were talking a lot about innocence in there.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Are you innocent?
• 23:27
  Speaker 10: Yes, sir, and tell us.
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: Do you think you've got a fair shakedown today?
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: Mister Ben.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Are you going to continue not eating or for the
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: present time. Is it a fast or is it.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: As it's not a hunger strike?
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: Okay?
• 23:43
  Speaker 20: And the work God has given my father to do,
• 23:45
  Speaker 20: he has been at times required by God to come
• 23:48
  Speaker 20: into close physical contact with people. Sometimes he touches people
• 23:53
  Speaker 20: to heal them of a physical or spiritual problem. On
• 23:57
  Speaker 20: a few rare occasions, and only at the request of
• 23:59
  Speaker 20: the person who is to him, he has allowed them
• 24:01
  Speaker 20: to remove their clothing. This case is not about, as
• 24:08
  Speaker 20: the state would have us believe, it's about removing a
• 24:13
  Speaker 20: cult later the state once out of the way. It
• 24:17
  Speaker 20: is about crucifying someone the public finds offensive.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: It was the biggest high profile case that we had
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: had in Taos, perhaps ever.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: It was a Fiashgo It was a public Fiashgo Machio trial.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: It was just awkward to be there and witnessed.
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: That he had his whole tribe around him, and one
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: of them was my mom. She disowned me at the trial.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: As soon as I walked up to they all turned
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: around and face the other direction shunned me. One of
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: my best frien answers there. He looked at me and shaid,
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: I never knew you, and just turned around and just
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: broke my heart.
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: The only thing we really worried about is is you know,
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: there could be somebody on the jury that just had
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: that idea of freedom of religion. It was going to
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: be this was lawful freedom of religion.
• 25:22
  Speaker 19: Religions have practices, and they had the free right to
• 25:25
  Speaker 19: practice the religion. But when they break the law, that
• 25:28
  Speaker 19: is not practicing the religion, that's a crime.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: Get religion out of your mind. Wayne Bent wasn't being
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: prosecuted for his beliefs. He was being prosecuted for the
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: harm that he did to these children. Defense spent, you know,
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: a good portion of the trial talking about the voluntariness
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: of the children coming to them in New Mexico under
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: the age of sixteen. They can't give consent to that
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: act with a sixty year old man.
• 25:58
  Speaker 13: Neither one of them is going to take you that
• 26:00
  Speaker 13: anything occurred, and what mister Bent is charged with is criminal.
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: Contact.
• 26:14
  Speaker 19: In the they would call miss houssare.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: The parents. They were angry. They they were followers of
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: Wayne Bent, I think going on twenty one years. They
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: didn't want their daughters to lay naked with him.
• 26:28
  Speaker 19: Do you believe that Michael influenced your daughters to lay naked.
• 26:31
  Speaker 21: With him in a subtle way. Yes, what do you
• 26:36
  Speaker 21: mean by say, well, they didn't outright say come lay
• 26:40
  Speaker 21: naked with me. There was posts that said you need
• 26:44
  Speaker 21: to be naked with God, and if he's Messiah, he's God.
• 26:51
  Speaker 19: Thank you.
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: Do you trust Michael? I do, but I don't.
• 27:00
  Speaker 19: If you feel he had influence over your girls.
• 27:03
  Speaker 22: Yeah, you also said you can't trust your youngest daughter.
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: Why is that?
• 27:10
  Speaker 23: Mm, Because I feel like that soon as she turns eighteen,
• 27:14
  Speaker 23: she's gonna go back out there and Michael will probably
• 27:17
  Speaker 23: sleep with her. I'm sorry I didn't catch the end
• 27:21
  Speaker 23: of the day, and Michael will probably sleep with her.
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: Initially, Lakeisha wasn't going to testify, and I privately met
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: with Lakeisha. I told her, you tell us anything that
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: you want to say.
• 27:36
  Speaker 24: I told him that it was strongly on my heart
• 27:39
  Speaker 24: to lay naked with him, and that I wanted it
• 27:43
  Speaker 24: to be skinned to skin. I told him I need
• 27:50
  Speaker 24: I want something deeper. I want something.
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: I know it's hard to explain. Yeah, so you're talking
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: to Michael, you tell him what is on your heart
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: and what happens next.
• 28:11
  Speaker 24: Michael was quiet for a little while, and then he
• 28:15
  Speaker 24: said you may and then he asked me, are you afraid?
• 28:23
  Speaker 24: And all of a sudden I realized he really meant it,
• 28:28
  Speaker 24: and I excitedly told him, you mean right now and
• 28:34
  Speaker 24: take my clothes off and get in bed with you,
• 28:36
  Speaker 24: And he said yes, And so I asked him, I said,
• 28:43
  Speaker 24: but what about my parents? And he told me, well,
• 28:49
  Speaker 24: they said that they trusted me.
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: At that point.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Did you take your clothes?
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: Yes?
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: What was Michael wearing.
• 28:58
  Speaker 24: At the time, Nothing, I don't think. Yeah, he was
• 29:04
  Speaker 24: not wearing anything.
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: Lakeisha's testimony with some of the most powerful testimony I
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: had in my career as a prosecutor. Did you ever
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: tell anybody that he put his chest on your chest?
• 29:18
  Speaker 24: Yes?
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: And did that happen?
• 29:22
  Speaker 24: He did put his chest on me, but he did
• 29:26
  Speaker 24: not put it directly on my breast.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: Why do you give us that clarification?
• 29:35
  Speaker 24: I don't remember Michael ever touching my breast, and this
• 29:39
  Speaker 24: is one reason why I know he didn't lay on
• 29:44
  Speaker 24: his chest directly on me.
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: So, okay, you have this interaction with Michael, how are
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: you feeling at this time?
• 30:15
  Speaker 18: Did I love Michael?
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: You're on other statement, request a five minute recess. We
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: had to have a five minute recess where she just
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: broke down crying, said, but you know I love him.
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: I love him. It wasn't like a parental love. It
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: was something untoward. We didn't try in any way to
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: limit Lakeisha's testimony. We wanted them to know that Wayne Bent,
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: you know, had total control of them.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Do you want to go home? Yes?
• 30:51
  Speaker 22: Now if you go home, are you in any danger
• 30:54
  Speaker 22: from Michael Wayne Bent?
• 30:57
  Speaker 13: No?
• 30:57
  Speaker 10: Peace with you?
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: Know?
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: Thank you?
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: We have nothing to.
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: Ashley. She was different than her sisters. Her sister was
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: still in full full belief, but Ashley was angry at
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: the time.
• 31:13
  Speaker 8: Did you tell Michael you were nervous?
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: Okay?
• 31:17
  Speaker 25: And and Ashley, why why were you nervous?
• 31:21
  Speaker 8: Because I was scared?
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: Okay, when you were when you were in Michael's bedroom.
• 31:31
  Speaker 8: Did he kiss you yes? Did he kiss you on
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: the lips, yes? Okay.
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: Did he kiss you anywhere else? Yes? And I know
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: it's difficult. Where did he kiss.
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: Him on the rest?
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: I want you to be very clear for the jury.
• 31:51
  Speaker 7: When when did I touch you?
• 31:52
  Speaker 26: Did he touch any.
• 31:53
  Speaker 13: Of the parts that are covered by this on your stuff.
• 31:57
  Speaker 19: On your buddy no?
• 31:59
  Speaker 11: Are you sure?
• 32:00
  Speaker 19: Yes?
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Would you please state your name for the record wing Bent.
• 32:13
  Speaker 22: At any time or at any point, did you apply
• 32:17
  Speaker 22: any touch to any intimate private.
• 32:20
  Speaker 19: Parts of Ashley Sayer?
• 32:23
  Speaker 16: No, ma'am.
• 32:24
  Speaker 22: Are you very clear about that given the encounter that
• 32:26
  Speaker 22: you had with her that day?
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Very certain?
• 32:30
  Speaker 22: And as to l s on the thirty first day
• 32:32
  Speaker 22: of July two thousand and six, did you apply any
• 32:37
  Speaker 22: touch anywhere on her body that would be considered an
• 32:42
  Speaker 22: intimate heart of her body?
• 32:45
  Speaker 8: No, ma'am, thank you.
• 32:46
  Speaker 15: Nothing further.
• 32:52
  Speaker 19: On that night, where you dressed when Laksha was.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: There when she came into the room. Yes, I was
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: in bed. It was a hot summer night and I
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: just had my white undershort son in the bed and
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: that's all I had on when she came.
• 33:09
  Speaker 19: Do you recall whether you allowed her to come into
• 33:12
  Speaker 19: your bedroom?
• 33:14
  Speaker 8: Yes?
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: I did allow her to come in.
• 33:17
  Speaker 19: You never told her, you can't, you know, not to
• 33:20
  Speaker 19: come in my bedroom and get undressed.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: I really stay away from telling people what to do.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: I'm not their director, I'm not their dictator. I'm not
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: their controller. I've known Lakeisha since she was a baby,
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: and I've always taught the children follow your heart, do
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: what God tells you, don't follow me. And so coming
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: against her like that would be impossible for me to
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: do because it would be against my fundamental, reallyifous beliefs
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: for people to follow God according to their own conscience.
• 34:06
  Speaker 19: You didn't have a concern that a young girl wanting
• 34:08
  Speaker 19: to come in your bedroom in the middle of the
• 34:10
  Speaker 19: night and unclothe herself. There wasn't anything in your mind
• 34:13
  Speaker 19: that went off and said, well, this is wrong.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Oh no, I didn't have any thought that it was wrong.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: My thought was that this could be troubling. And here,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: I am, Can you stand up and show the jury
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: how you put your hand on her surnam?
• 34:33
  Speaker 11: Yes?
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: In Lakeisha's case, it was straight up and down like
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: this if I put my hand on the sternam of
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: somebody clothed. I'm not always so careful where I put
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: my hand, but in her case, I was being exceptionally careful.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: Not to her in between any kind of with.
• 35:02
  Speaker 19: Her would actually have any reason. You heard her testimony correct, Yes,
• 35:14
  Speaker 19: And do you agree with it?
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: I think it's basically true.
• 35:19
  Speaker 19: Okay. So she said that you kissed her on the lips?
• 35:24
  Speaker 19: Is that true?
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: I don't remember that, but it could be true. It's
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: something I would do, Okay.
• 35:30
  Speaker 19: She also said that you kissed her on her breast here.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: No, she in an earlier interview, she it was pointed
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: out the clavigal area. It was I never touched any
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: fleshy part of the breast.
• 35:47
  Speaker 12: He believed that he was going to explain.
• 35:49
  Speaker 20: Himself away to that jury.
• 35:51
  Speaker 12: He gets to go after it's all said and done
• 35:54
  Speaker 12: and say I got up there. I was the tireless,
• 35:59
  Speaker 12: fearless defender of God's word and man's laws. Decided to
• 36:05
  Speaker 12: convict me and send me to prison, much like they
• 36:09
  Speaker 12: decided to convict Jesus and send him to the cross.
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: This case is not about religion.
• 36:17
  Speaker 25: It is not about making a determination if mister Bent's
• 36:21
  Speaker 25: beliefs are correct, are wrong, if they're better than anyone
• 36:25
  Speaker 25: else's beliefs. This case is about mister Bent's misusing his
• 36:31
  Speaker 25: trust and authority over these two young girls.
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: He used his position of authority to cause these girls
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: to come to his.
• 36:41
  Speaker 25: Room so lay naked, and while they lay naked, he
• 36:49
  Speaker 25: committed criminals contact.
• 36:54
  Speaker 27: This is my new BFF.
• 36:57
  Speaker 22: Let me tell you why.
• 37:00
  Speaker 27: Because the state has to prove criminal.
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: Contact of them.
• 37:10
  Speaker 27: He would have had to touch intimate parts of the
• 37:15
  Speaker 27: body and both girls got on the stand and I said,
• 37:19
  Speaker 27: did he touch you anywhere on your body if you
• 37:23
  Speaker 27: were wearing a bikini that would have been covered by
• 37:26
  Speaker 27: the bikini, And the girls said no.
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: The jury did take their time in arriving at a verdict.
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: They deliberated two days.
• 37:48
  Speaker 19: Whatever the verdict is, I expect that there to be
• 37:50
  Speaker 19: ordered in the quorum and the court room. I don't
• 37:52
  Speaker 19: want any outbursts of any sort. I understand that there
• 37:56
  Speaker 19: will be some noise, but let's keep the noise to
• 37:59
  Speaker 19: minimum and let's conduct ourselves accordingly.
• 38:04
  Speaker 26: Data New Mexico County of Chaos District Court Daty Mexican
• 38:08
  Speaker 26: VIASUS Wayne Bent. We find a defendant, Wayne Vent not
• 38:12
  Speaker 26: guilty of criminals contact of a miner's charged in count one.
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: They didn't find him guilty of the Lakeisha count. They
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: had a holdout that just said freedom of religion.
• 38:22
  Speaker 26: We find the defendant Wayne Bent guilty of criminal contact
• 38:26
  Speaker 26: of a miner is charged in count two.
• 38:28
  Speaker 12: The outcome was guilty on the criminal contact as it
• 38:31
  Speaker 12: applied to Ashley, and the two counts of contributing to
• 38:36
  Speaker 12: the delinquency of a minor.
• 38:38
  Speaker 7: We find the.
• 38:38
  Speaker 26: Defendant Bet guilty of contributing to the delinquency of a
• 38:42
  Speaker 26: miner is charged in count three. We find the defendant,
• 38:45
  Speaker 26: Wayne Bent, guilty of contributing to the delinquency of a
• 38:48
  Speaker 26: miner is charged in count four.
• 38:50
  Speaker 12: Obviously, when I first heard it, I was a little disappointed,
• 38:53
  Speaker 12: but then you look at the big picture, it wasn't
• 38:56
  Speaker 12: completely surprising. Again, I think Lakeisha was very convincing, or
• 39:02
  Speaker 12: could be convincing to some people, and that may have
• 39:05
  Speaker 12: been the jury's way of saying, Okay, you know, we're
• 39:07
  Speaker 12: gonna defer to what she has to say.
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: It's the sentencing. He called me and all sorts of things.
• 39:15
  Speaker 6: He was not very nice. He molested our hearts and
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: our minds. It wasn't just those two girls, it was
• 39:23
  Speaker 6: all of this.
• 39:25
  Speaker 12: I was asking for the max and the reason for
• 39:28
  Speaker 12: that was just the whole dynamics of it, the absence
• 39:33
  Speaker 12: of any kind of remorse, the whole position of authority,
• 39:39
  Speaker 12: the grooming, the brainwashing, the indoctrination, and so I believe
• 39:43
  Speaker 12: that it was the type of case where the maximum
• 39:46
  Speaker 12: eighteen years was warranted. The judge gave us ten years,
• 39:51
  Speaker 12: and I was okay with that.
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: He's a lifetime defender. He has to register in any
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: state in the United States as a defender.
• 40:01
  Speaker 6: He didn't even get everything he deserved. In my opinion,
• 40:04
  Speaker 6: for all the destruction that he caused, he deserved more.
• 40:17
  Speaker 12: When he developed a skin cancer or some kind of
• 40:20
  Speaker 12: cancer condition. I'll admit it, part of me was sympathetic
• 40:23
  Speaker 12: because if it was true that he was terminally ill, well,
• 40:27
  Speaker 12: he's going to meet his maker.
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: Carol Kruger, the only reason that I was okay with
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: Wayne getting out of prison is because of Jeff, his son.
• 40:44
  Speaker 13: It was his death.
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: Wayne took my mom away from me, and I felt,
• 40:54
  Speaker 6: you know, eight years is long enough to have your
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: parent taken away from you.
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: I wrote a letter to the Bureau of Prisons asking
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: them to let him go, to let him out of
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: prison early so he can go and die with his people.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: For now, the earth comes to its end.
• 41:18
  Speaker 8: It's over.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: Now, we watch it pass away before our very eyes.
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: Cult experts say, once you've been in a group like
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: that for twenty years, you are unreachable, and I was
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: there in nineteen and a half. You get pulled in.
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: There's no matter how smart you are, you can get
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: pulled into this stuff because they see that you have
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: a need and they're willing to help you get that need.
• 41:48
  Speaker 6: The only people he has control over are the ones
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: that give it to him. They're followers, and they're going
• 41:55
  Speaker 6: to always find someone to follow it, whether it's him
• 41:57
  Speaker 6: or someone else.
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: I pray for him still to this day, and I
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: pray for all the people there, even after he took
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: my wife, and Lord, I just pray Lord, that you
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: be with these people and just love him, let him
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: know that you haven't forgotten him, and that you'll open
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: up a way for them to be able, hopefully to
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: come home back to their loved ones.