Military-style Christian sect leader is charged in massive child sex abuse case that a former member says she has been trying to expose for years
Peter Green was arrested on Sunday in New Mexico and charged with 100 counts of child sex abuse charges
He is the leader of the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps in the remote community of Fence Lake
Sect members Deborah Green, Joshua Green and Stacey Miller also face various charges ranging from child abuse, bribery and not reporting a birth
A former member said she’s been trying to draw attention to the group for years
She successfully sued the sect in 1989 for mistreatment and forcing her to give up legal custody of three of her children
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22 August 2017
A leader of a New Mexico military-style Christian sect is facing dozens of child sexual abuse charges in a case that authorities say is connected to widespread abuse by the religious commune.
Peter Green of the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps in the remote community of Fence Lake was charged with 100 counts of criminal sexual penetration of a child.
Sect members Deborah Green, Joshua Green and Stacey Miller also face various charges ranging from child abuse, bribery and not reporting a birth.
All four were arrested on Sunday.
A former member, Maura Alana Schmierer, said on Monday that she’s been trying to draw attention to the New Mexico group for years. Schmierer added that she had been interviewed by investigators recently about the group.
‘I’ve been trying to expose them for years,’ said Schmierer, who left the sect in the late 1980s.
Schmierer sued the sect for mistreatment and forcing her to give up legal custody of three of her children. A judge in 1989 awarded her $1.08 million.
The group fled California and later resurfaced near El Paso, Texas, and then in western New Mexico.
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