True Crime-Paranormal-Conspiracy Theories Stories Part V #Wattys2023

Kidwelly Sex Cult

A cult operating in the Welsh town ofKidwelly raped children for decades, until its perpetrators werecaught in 2010. Its leader, Colin Batley, psychologically terrorizedand coerced vulnerable children into performing sexual acts, by usingdeath threats and brainwashing. Batley, three female members, and asecond man were convicted of child sex offenses in 2011 and jailed.

Cult

The cult sexually exploited vulnerableteenagers, using occult practices and literature as a means ofjustifying its abuse, and of brainwashing its victims. It was led byColin Batley and his wife, as well as three other women. Its sexualabuse against children spanned several decades, and was carried outfirst in London, then in Kidwelly in southwest Wales.

The five members who went on trialdeparted from London for a single Kidwelly street in the 1990s. Theleader, Colin Batley, moved first, followed by Shelly Millar,Batley's mistress, Jacqueline Marling, and their partners. Batley andthree of the four female defendants were convicted of sexualoffences. Colin Batley and the four female defendants indicated theirmembership with an ancient "Egyptian eye" tattoo ofHorus, a hawk-headed god on their arms, and by collecting ancientEgyptian religious objects.

The cult targeted troubled,impressionable minors, forcing them to undergo an initiation ceremonythat ended with sex with an adult. Children were intimidated intoparticipating with threats of murder. One girl testified that afterthis ceremony (which started with Batley preaching about the occultand finished with sex), she was regularly coerced into having sexwith Colin Batley at his house, and with strangers at satanic orgies.In tears, she testified, "I did it because I was told to byColin". A victim explained, "Colin knew how tomanipulate you, to make you believe anything he said". Childrenalso obeyed his demands for sex out of "fear of angering theGods." Batley had Rottweiler dogs that were "viciousto everyone".

The sexual abuse was often precededwith satanic ceremonies in which passages from the occultist AleisterCrowley's books The Book of the Law, The Book of Magick, and Equinoxof the Gods were read out. One ceremony featured an altar with saltedbread, a chalice of red wine, and an incense burner. At the end ofthese satanic ceremonies, members "became sky-clad",meaning they disrobed and had sex.

A neighbor, John Wheatland, claimedthat while working in his garden, he once saw a girl in her earlyteens "done up to look like a film star", who askedhim whether he wanted sex. He also stated that he heard a victimcrying every night.

The Book of the Law

Aleister Crowley, whose literature wasa major source of the cult's beliefs, was an English occultist andmagician who died in 1947. He wrote The Book of the Law in Cairo in1904. Each member's home seemed to have a laminated version of it.The trial heard this book had "worrying trends and themes"about sex, including the statements "Let all chaste women bedespised", "Sex with anyone is not just permissible, but tobe encouraged. Prostitution is to be admired", and "Someof the most passionate and permanent attachments have begun withrape. Rome was founded thereon." Judge Paul Thomas QCadmonished the book as "a ludicrous document".

Death of Damian Batley

Colin Batley's son Damian died on 1February 2008, when he accidentally hanged himself during a sex act.He filmed the fatal accident on his mobile phone. An inquest was toldhe was found naked and hanging.