肯尼亚法院将对邪教头目保罗·麦肯齐及其29名追随者进行宣判，他们被控谋杀191名儿童1。所有被告人均否认谋杀罪1。这起案件涉及好消息国际事工教堂，该教堂成立于2003年，通过电视台"时代电视"传播教义，主教堂于2019年关闭后，麦肯齐随即迁往沙卡霍拉森林1。
当局在沙卡霍拉森林发现了超过400具尸体1，其中许多是手脚被绑定、尸体用床单包裹的儿童1。参与挖掘的工人每天仅获得8美元报酬1，一名挖掘工人詹姆斯表示："我们发现的每个坟墓里至少有三具尸体"1。首次发现尸体遗骸的时间为2023年3月1。
该邪教通过强制儿童挨饿至死来追求"见耶稣"，并禁止教育、将现代医学视为"邪恶"1。麦肯齐还面临恐怖主义、激进化和剥夺儿童教育权等指控1。麦肯齐的前安全主管恩诺斯·阿曼亚·恩加拉已认罪并成为控方证人1。
A Kenyan court is set to deliver a verdict against Paul Mackenzie and 29 of his followers, who stand accused of murdering 191 children 1. The defendants have all denied the murder charges 1.
Mackenzie led a cult that starved children to death as part of what authorities describe as a practice to "see Jesus," while forbidding education and rejecting modern medicine as "evil" 1. Over 400 bodies were discovered in Shakahola Forest, with many of the deceased being children whose hands and feet were bound and whose bodies were wrapped in sheets 1. One excavation worker, James, reported that "every grave we found contained at least three bodies" 1. The bodies began surfacing in March 2023 1.
The Good News International Ministries Church, established in 2003, had initially spread its teachings through the television station Tala TV before its main headquarters was shut down in 2019 1. Mackenzie subsequently relocated his followers to Shakahola Forest 1. In addition to the murder charges, Mackenzie faces allegations of terrorism, radicalization, and depriving children of education 1. His former security chief, Enos Amanya Ngala, has pleaded guilty and become a prosecution witness 1.
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