Similarities to the Kidwelly Cult organised by convicted paedophile Colin Batley:
Kidwelly sex cult victim breaks silence to tell of childhood horrors
by Robin Turner, Wales On Sunday
Mar 13 2011
A victim of twisted Colin Batley told Wales on Sunday of her anguish as the black magic sex cult leader forced her to put on a satanic symbol and raped her as a teenager.
The woman, who is now a mum in her thirties, spoke out after her 48-year-old tormentor was jailed for a minimum of 11 years at Swansea Crown Court and warned he may never see freedom.
She spoke on condition of anonymity and revealed the hell she suffered at the hands of a man who was convicted of 11 rapes and numerous child sex crimes over some 20 years living in the West Wales town of Kidwelly.
The jury was told about the cult’s fixation with the works of occult writer Aleister Crowley – and their obsession with wife swapping and sex with younger girls and boys.
The woman, who was one of the victims who gave evidence against Batley in court, said that he had everyone in the cult under his spell.
She said: “He (Colin) was the boss. He barked orders at everybody including me.
“People just did what they were told. He had Rottweilers that were scared of him but vicious to everyone else.
“At 15 I had to have sex with Colin. He said it was an initiation into the occult.
“He said he did not want to do it but it had to be done. He said if I did not follow orders I would be killed. People ‘higher up’ in the cult would do it, he said.”
Chief Inspector Richard Lewis of Dyfed-Powys Police statement to the press following the guilty verdicts against Colin Batley in the west Wales sex cult case…………………..
Ex-Tesco security guard Batley was the self-styled “lord” of the bizarre sect which operated for years in the quiet cul-de-sac of Clos Yr Onnen in Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire.
Members filled their Gwalia Housing Association homes with idolatry, held ceremonies in robes and hoods and forced a number of children and vulnerable adults into depraved sex acts.
The victim said she was massively relieved by the guilty verdict and hoped he would never enjoy freedom again.
“A hundred years would not be enough for Colin Batley,” she said.
“But at least now myself and the other victims can start to rebuild our lives outside of the shadow of that contemptible man.”
She also spoke of a ceremony she witnessed in Kidwelly involving an altar on which salted bread, oil and a goblet of wine was placed.
Cult members dressed in white robes held readings of occult texts and later sex took place between the members who disrobed, or in their words, “became sky clad”.
The woman, who gave evidence in court via a CCTV system so she did not have to face Batley, added she “did not hate Wales” despite what had happened.
She was originally from London but was brought to Wales by Batley where she was abused and “passed round” to other cult members who had sex with her.
She said: “He said the occult was strong in Wales.”
She said she did not know if there were many more victims of Batley who had not yet come forward, but urged them to speak out if they could.
“Whether there are any more victims in this case, I don’t know, but for the length of time that the abuse went on, it’s highly possible,” she said.
“I hope to encourage anybody who is a victim to come forward, not just in Colin’s case.
“If anybody is going through something similar, we hope they will have the courage to come forward and speak to the police.”
Her husband, who is helping her get over the trauma of her years of abuse said: “We hope to come back to Wales in better times.”
The shadowy cult built up by Batley came crashing down when three victims approached Dyfed-Powys Police with their complaints.
The judge, who presided over the sensational five-week case, commended all the witnesses for their bravery in speaking out.
After they spoke out, the depravity that had been happening behind closed doors at Clos yr Onnen for almost two decades was finally exposed.
Colin Batley was revealed as a monster who forced a number of women into prostitution and made them pay him 25% of their earnings.
He would read from Aleister Crowley’s works including The Book of the Law, Equinox of the Gods and The Book of Magick.
On Friday, Batley was given an indeterminate sentence on public protection grounds but will have to serve at least 11 years before he can apply for parole.
Even then he may “never be released” said Judge Thomas because he will have to prove he is no longer a risk to the public.
Judge Thomas said it was a “mystery” how jobless, scruffy Batley, who has several missing teeth, managed to control his women followers, who the judge termed “not unintelligent”.
The judge dismissed The Book of the Law as “a ludicrous document” but accepted that cult members were obsessed with it.
Marling even had an “altar” comprising of Egyptian cat goddess statues and a painting of the mask of Tutenkhamun.
Batley’s wife Elaine, 47, also had a tattoo of Tutankhamen’s face on her arm, a pentagram on her leg and an entire Egyptian script on her back.
According to one of the victims in the case, Batley’s wife was treated “like a slave” but the judge said she became a willing participant in her husband’s “wickedness”.
The jury heard how a young boy was tricked into having sex with her and she was jailed for eight years for indecency with children.
Batley’s long-term lover Jackie Marling, 42, as well as being “besotted” with him, was also obsessed with The Book of the Law, said Judge Thomas, who described her as his “second in command”.
She wept as she was sentenced to 12 years in jail for offences including aiding and abetting rape.
Tears also streamed down the face of bespectacled Shelly Millar, 35, who was said by the judge to have been behind “the prostitution” side of the operation.
Millar, who listed Batley on her mobile phone as “My Lord” was found guilty of indecency with children including a 12-year-old boy and was also described during the case as Colin Batley’s “sex slave”.
The court heard she earned £2,000 a month as a prostitute in Swansea and gave 25% of her earnings to Batley.
Judge Thomas told the defendants they were evil.
“When this case was opened to the jury you Colin Batley were described as evil,” he said.
“That in my view is an accurate statement of your character.
“You set yourself up as the ruler of a sick little kingdom surrounded by three women who danced as your willing attendants regarding you as their master.”
If you are a survivor of the terrible abuse committed by Chris and Clare Godson ( USA, Ireland, Thailand etc.) and would like to share your own story, whatever form your ordeal took, you can do so (under a pen name if you wish). Simply email us at:kelleher.newsdesk@hotmail.co.uk and either include your account in the text or attach it as a Word or Pages document or you could arrange to give us access and publish it privately as a Google document.
Robert Cahill.
Slipping beneath the radar is an art for people like Chris and Clare Godson (Benevent l’Abbaye) who know just how to present themselves and not reveal the true nature of their cult.
Creuse News and The Bugle are just two of the English language periodicals that regularly give prominent place to Godson adverts with no idea of the “horror” below the surface of the Godson enterprises.
The Colin Batley trial in Swansea shows just how long people of the Godson type can keep going with their depraved lusts/beliefs. Some of their victims had to reach their twenties or early thirties before being able to come forward and denounce the cruel and sick ways of the cult. It takes great courage to reveal how easily one has been drawn into a cult and how easily one surrendered a hold on common sense and decency. Sick people like Chris and Clare Godson know this simple fact and use it to dupe more and more people. They turn vulnerable people into their puppets with an arsenal of mind control methods. And, if necessary they resort to violence and intimidation to keep their victims in order. They cynically take advantage of all who slip into their web. Money is fleeced from the elderly who find themselves drawn into excessive and unnecessary projects. The young are sucked in to do their depraved bidding. The Colin Batley case gives hope that some kind of halt can be brought to this pair!
Olivia Kelleher.
A correspondent has described our list of cult buildings in Benevent l’Abbaye as a serious under-estimate! He suggests that linked members to Chris and Clare Godson may have above 20 buildings and sites in the area.
He also describes cult members in Benevent l’Abbaye as having a creapy “vacant” look. Clare Godson just looks “very hard-faced and ruthless!”
At the moment it is quite hard for us to establish exactly the number of houses inhabited by the cult, but it is on a much bigger and more pernicious scale than the Kidwelly cult of Colin Batley (recently sentenced in Swansea Crown Court).
In fact, the Godson cult seems better organized and much more deft at concealing its “activities.”
Some quite incredible emails have just arrived today from a former cult member in the USA which include recordings of sessions involving the Godsons where some of the most extreme and way out views were aired!
Also photographs of the Godsons during their USA cult period.
These recordings and photographs certainly show the cult “denials” as total lies by the Godsons……………..they were in the thick of this evil organisation and willing to seed its depraved ways into the Irish set-up and now the French “B&B and pilgrim dormitory” period.
What cheeky liars these people are with their strenuous denials of involvement in this sickening paedophile cult.
The Godson Cult in France (overview). 
Court told of an altar, incense burning and sect members disrobing for sex
by Robin Turner, Western Mail
Mar 10 2011
THE evidence heard in the case of this bizarre “black magic” sex cult in the tranquil setting of Carmarthenshire’s seaside town of Kidwelly seemed like something from a horror novel.
The jury at Swansea Crown Court was told of ceremonies with women dressed in robes.
And the quasi-religious sect in which members had “swinging” lifestyles was said to have been influenced by the arch satanist and practitioner of black magic, the late Aleister Crowley.
Sections from his controversial works The Book of The Law, Equinox of the Gods and The Book of Magick were said to have been read out at shadowy sect ceremonies in members’ homes in the cul-de-sac of Clos yr Onnen.
At one, an altar was set out with a goblet of red wine, an incense burner and salted bread and sect members later disrobed, or in their words “became skyclad” and had sex.
Sadly, said Peter Murphy QC, prosecuting, children and vulnerable young adults would become prey to the lust of “evil and manipulative” Colin Batley, 48, whom he named as the sect’s “principal”.
Five complainants, whose identity is protected by law, came to the trial to describe how they were taken or lured to the homes at Clos yr Onnen and subjected to sex attacks, even on some occasions being forced to have sex while being filmed.
They were so terrified of Colin Batley they gave evidence via CCTV, some of the female complainants breaking down and sobbing as they recalled what happened.
They said others, who have not come forward, were also made to perform unspeakable acts.
Prosecutor Peter Murphy QC said that as the “controlling” leader of the cult, Batley took a 25% cut of any cash other members earned.
One co-defendant, Shelly Millar, 35, was said to have got through 3,000 clients in a two-year period while acting as a prostitute in massage parlours in Swansea and Bristol.
He highlighted Batley’s purchase of a £21,000 luxury caravan in February last year using a £3,210 cash deposit, despite having no obvious income.
Batley, who dismissed his role as a feared high priest of his own religion as “a load of rubbish”, claimed he made £10,000 a year breeding pedigree Rottweilers for sale and also bred Siamese cats.
And he claimed some of his money came from “gambling on the dogs and horses”.
Despite the horrendous crimes involved, the bizarre nature of the sect led to some lighter moments as barristers reflected on their clients’ dismissal of the sex cult allegations.
Barrister James Jenkins told the jury: “Just because they had an interest in Egypt it does not mean they went to Asda in chariots.”
And Kevin Riordan, for Colin Batley, said: “It is not my business to be disrespectful to a client.
“But judging by his overall intellectual abilities, his looks, his demeanour, is this a modern-day Rasputin?”
During the trial it emerged that following the defendants’ arrest last summer, a split took place between Colin and Elaine Batley.
While giving evidence during the trial, she accused her husband of laughing at her from the dock as she stood in the witness box.
She said: “I feel embarrassed to be married to him”.
And she added: “I’ve changed, you won’t get the better of me now.”
She told the court that while she and Jackie Marling had been involved in “threesomes” and she and Marling had a lesbian fling together, she only found out later that her husband and Marling had been having a long-term affair.
The discovery was made when Marling sent him a birthday card with the words “To my husband” on it.
Of her marriage, she said on one occasion he sent a photo of her to the Readers’ Wives section of a pornographic magazine and this led to them meeting “other couples for group activities”.
Read More http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/03/10/court-told-of-an-altar-incense-burning-and-sect-members-disrobing-for-sex-91466-28310776/#ixzz1HRjfPdYm
The Batley Cult is very much a simpler clone of the better organised and secretive Godson Cult now comfortably settled in Benevent l’Abbaye, France.
The Godson Cult is obsessed with teenage girls between 12yrs and 17yrs.
They continue, despite media attention, to go after young girls…….
Kidwelly cult: Peaceful town shattered by shadowy satanic sex cult.
The first anyone in Kidwelly heard of a satanic paedophile ring was when Colin Batley hit the headlines last month.
By Antony Stone
A HANDFUL of housing association homes in an overlooked cul-de-sac in sleepy Kidwelly is an unlikely location for a sex cult.
With its medieval castle, industrial museum and historic canal, the pretty seaside town tries hard to attract the tourist pound.
The first anyone heard of a satanic paedophile ring was when Colin Batley hit the headlines last month.
Despite having lived in the community for years, the cult’s inevitably low-key operation had gone completely unnoticed.
News of what had been going on under their noses for so long was greeted by many residents with disbelief, shock and unease.
Even today, few in the deeply conservative community were willing to do much more than express shock at revelations from the trial.
One man, from Priory Street, spoke of the anger at the way a group of “outsiders” from London had stained the town’s character.
“Nobody understands how so many of them could come down and all end up living in one place in the town,” he said.
“They must have planned it somehow. I don’t think Kidwelly is to blame for what has gone on. They kept a very low profile.”
He said he preferred not to give his name because he felt the cult would still be operating in the area.
Neighbours John and Marian Wheatland, both pensioners, said they were “horrified” they were living among a cult.
Mr Wheatland, 79, said: “It was a great shock to find out something like this — and it’s unbelievable it was allowed to happen.
“Most of the people living here are an absolute delight other than Batley and his crew. Batley I thought was a horrible man he once told me of a plan to breed Rottweilers next door to my house.
“When I heard that Batley was the leader of the cult I chuckled to myself — he’s never lifted a finger in his life. He would always be telling other people what to do and would dictate to them how to build stuff but he would never do anything himself.”
Geraint Thomas, Kidwelly Town Council clerk, predicted that the community would quickly rise above its problems.
“The first we knew about this matter was when it was publicised in the newspapers. It is fair to say that on reading about it we were shocked and dismayed.
“This unfortunate matter has put Kidwelly on the map for the wrong reasons as we are continuously endeavouring to promote the town of Kidwelly and its environment in a positive way.
“We view this matter as a one-off. Kidwelly is a safe and respectable place to live and visit for all ages. The community spirit within Kidwelly is such that we will rise above this awful incident.”
There are just so many sordid similarities to the Godson Cult!
The “sleepy” town is Benevent l’Abbaye and the victims are young girls and gullible families. Chris and Clare Godson sited their evil cult smack on an internationally famous pilgrim route!
Batley was said in court to have been active as a molester and rapist of children and young people for more than three decades.
Previously, a jury rejected claims by Batley and other defendants during the trial that no cult existed.
Elaine Batley, Jacqueline Marling and Shelley Millar Elaine Batley, Jacqueline Marling and Shelley Millar were all jailed
The cult, who all lived in the same cul-de-sac, took part in a catalogue of abuse against children and young adults.
Of course, the Godsons similarly deny the existence of their cult!
They say all the testimony and evidence against them is malicious!
The Godson cult in Benevent l’Abbaye is altogether a much more sophisticated operation! Chris and Clare Godson have made an excellent job of covering their tracks from continent to continent. They possess over 16 properties in Benevent l’Abbaye which accommodate recruits and converts to their pseudo-Christian cult. The results of their campaign to draw-in young girls always ends up with traumatised and damaged kids!
“He (Colin) was the boss. He barked orders at everybody including me. People just did what they were told. He had Rottweilers that were scared of him but vicious to everyone else. At 15 I had to have sex with Colin. He said it was an initiation into the occult. He said he did not want to do it but it had to be done. He said if I did not follow orders I would be killed. People ‘higher up’ in the cult would do it, he said.”
The victim said she was massively relieved by the guilty verdict and hoped he would never enjoy freedom again.
“A hundred years would not be enough for Colin Batley,” she said. “But at least now myself and the other victims can start to rebuild our lives outside of the shadow of that contemptible man.”
She also spoke of a ceremony she witnessed in Kidwelly involving an altar on which salted bread, oil and a goblet of wine was placed. Cult members dressed in white robes held readings of occult texts and later sex took place between the members who disrobed, or in their words, “became sky clad”.
The woman, who gave evidence in court via a CCTV system so she did not have to face Batley, added she “did not hate Wales” despite what had happened.
She was originally from London but was brought to Wales by Batley where she was abused and “passed round” to other cult members who had sex with her.
The shadowy cult built up by Batley came crashing down when three victims approached Dyfed-Powys Police with their complaints.
The judge, who presided over the sensational five-week case, commended all the witnesses for their bravery in speaking out. After they spoke out, the depravity that had been happening behind closed doors at Clos yr Onnen for almost two decades was finally exposed.
Colin Batley was revealed as a monster who forced a number of women into prostitution and made them pay him 25% of their earnings. He owned two Rottweiler dogs, Toots (after Tutankhamen) and another named Sekhet after the Egyptian lion god.
He would read from Aleister Crowley’s works including The Book of the Law, Equinox of the Gods and The Book of Magick.
On Friday, Batley was given an indeterminate sentence on public protection grounds but will have to serve at least 11 years before he can apply for parole.
Even then he may “never be released” said Judge Thomas because he will have to prove he is no longer a risk to the public.
Batley’s long-term lover Jackie Marling, 42, as well as being “besotted” with him, was also obsessed with The Book of the Law, said Judge Thomas, who described her as his “second in command”.
She wept as she was sentenced to 12 years in jail for offences including aiding and abetting rape.
Tears also streamed down the face of bespectacled Shelly Millar, 35, who was said by the judge to have been behind “the prostitution” side of the operation.
Millar, who listed Batley on her mobile phone as “My Lord” was found guilty of indecency with children including a 12-year-old boy and was also described during the case as Colin Batley’s “sex slave”.
The court heard she earned £2,000 a month as a prostitute in Swansea and gave 25% of her earnings to Batley.
Judge Thomas told the defendants they were evil.
The Godson Cult:
This is a cult where children are the property of the cult leader who brainwashes them!
This is a cult where children are forced to live on rationed food!
This is a cult that keeps its members imprisoned against their wills!
This is a cult where children are forced to work to enrich the cult leaders!
This is a cult where child prostitution is used to lure foreign degenerate “sex tourists!
Chris and Clare Godson:
The cult and cult-like ventures are wealthy and powerful, quick to take the offensive against any critic. Shrewd in the use of public relations and political lobbying techniques.
Often these abusive cults enjoy the support of many aspects of the establishment such as the courts, law enforcement agencies, conventional church groups, civil rights organizations, and others that are not mentioned.
This support is quite astonishing considering some of the improprieties or illegalities that have been exposed these past few years.
Just enter Benevent l’Abbaye today and a prominently positioned van dislays adverts for the Godson……… “Accueil Pelerin.”
The so-called “pilgrim dormitory” is highlighted by every innocent/gullible tourist website in the Limousin.
Satanic cult leader Colin Batley facing jail for child rapes:
A Satanic sex cult leader has been found guilty of a string of child rapes and sexual assaults across several decades.
Colin Batley told one girl an assassin would kill her if she refused an initiation ceremony which ended in sex. She was also taken to Satanic orgies and used by strangers.
‘I did it because I was told to by Colin,’ she sobbed as she gave evidence via videolink.
The 48-year-old self-styled high priest would begin the sordid rituals by reading from The Book Of The Law, written more than a century ago by occultist Aleister Crowley.
The readings were used as a form of brainwashing and Batley would then order hooded cult members to have sex, ensuring it was filmed.
Sometimes the victims were made to wear inverted crosses.
He was found guilty of 27 offences and was warned by the judge at Swansea crown court that he faced a ‘vast’ prison sentence.
The quasi-religious sex sessions took place in houses in the same cul-de-sac in Kidwelly, west Wales, after Batley moved there from London.
Wife Elaine Batley, 47, and fellow cult members Jacqueline Marling, 42, and Shelly Millar, 35, joined him in the seaside town. All three women were also found guilty of a range of sexual offences.
Batley was thought to have been tipped off about a police raid (the same occured when the Godson cult was raided in Ireland!) but his obsession with Satanism was well-documented.
He bred rottweilers from his home to earn money but kept two for personal safety.
Batley also bred cats, which were given occult names, before his arrest in summer last year.
Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/857692-satanic-cult-leader-facing-jail-for-child-rapes#ixzz1HurTmJ6v
A non-senior cult insider believes the Benevent l’Abbaye group/faction have buried the cache of semi-automatics they brought by ordinary ferry from Ireland in 2004. This burial was done comparitively recently because the leadership fears a police/gendarmerie raid following all the media interest! Using their in-house digger they have buried the arms on their land close to Benevent l’Abbaye with the intention of making themselves appear “normal” and squeaky clean. A great pile of weapons, of course, tends to suggest that they are quite mad and the leadership is sane enough to know that this is not a good idea in the present climate…….
We thank our contact(s) for this information and hope that it does not endanger their planned return to the UK this 2011.
2011-03-16
Five Wales Satanists guilty of extreme ritual abuse and rape of children, survivor tells of childhood horrors
Wales Online – March 9, 2011
Five found guilty in sex cult trial
By Robin Turner, WalesOnline
L-R: Colin Batley, Jackie Marling, Elaine Batley and Shelly Millar
The jury in the trial of five people accused of using a black magic influenced cult to sexually abuse children and young adults in Carmarthenshire has found five defendents guilty of 39 serious sex offences.
At Swansea Crown Court, alleged cult leader Colin Batley, 48, was found guilty of 27 offences – including rape, buggery, indecency wih children and causing prostitution.
His wife, Elaine Batley, 47, was convicted of 5 offences, incuding indececy with a child and indecent assault.
Shelly Millar, 35, was convicted of two counts of indecency with children.
Jackie Marling, Batley’s lover, was convicted of five offences – including aiding and abeiting rape and indecency with a child.
Peter Murphy QC, prosecuting, has alleged the four established their own religion – which preached free sex and was influenced by notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley.
The prosecution case is that the sex was established in members’ homes in the tranquil Cararthenshire town of Kidwelly and children and young adults brought there were abused.
Below: The house where the sex ring was believed to have operated from
But alleged cult member Sandra Iveson, 45, was cleared of a single charge of indecency with a child.
Vincent Barden, 70, of Kempston, Bedfordshire, who was not a cult member, was also cleared of a single charge of rape.
Batley was jointly charged with Barden in connection with the rape and was also cleared of it.
But Barden had already admitted two counts of sexual assault on an under-age girl.
Both he, Batley and the other cult members will all be sentenced at Swansea Crown Court on Friday.
The jury today delivered guilty verdicts for almost every offence that the group faced.
In Batley’s case it included 11 separate rapes, three indecent assaults, causing prostitution for personal gain, causing a child to have sex and inciting a child to have sex.
The jury also found him guilty of six counts of buggery and four counts of possessing indecent images of a child.
Judge Paul Thomas warned the group they all faced “lengthy jail terms”.
As the convicted women were led away to the court’s custody unit an argument erupted with several of them shouting and shrieking at one another.
The jury’s verdict regarding all offences was reached today after four full days of deliberations and two half days.
During the trial, Batley was accused of using the cult as an excuse for its sexual depravity.
The jury heard that he first moved to Kidwelly from London and was followed successively by Marling and Millar and their partners, neither of whom figured in the trial.
Cult members would dress in hooded robes during occult rituals which usually took place before group sex.
A number of houses in the same cul-de-sac were used for the regular cult sex sessions.
Batley would read from the occult bible, The Book Of The Law, written more than a century ago by arch-Satanist Aleister Crowley.
He would also order cult members to have sex together and ensure that other members were present to film it.
The recorded material mentioned during the trial is believed to have been destroyed before his arrest.
Batley was apparently tipped off by friends in London about the impending raid on his home two days before his arrest.
But the evidence against him and other cult proved overwhelming during the trial.
Marling was found guilty of aiding and abetting rape, causing prostitution for gain, and inciting a child to engage in sex.
She was also convicted of three separate counts of indecency with a child.
By the time of his arrest Batley and his wife had separated and Marling had moved in with him.
Elaine Batley was today found guilty of three counts of indecency with a child and one of sexual activity with a child.
Shelly Millar was found guilty of indecency with a child and inciting a child to engage in sex.
Batley was said to have used the cult as a form of brainwashing to justify abuse to his victims.
One schoolboy, now an adult, told the trial Batley had repeatedly abused him as a child when he had access to him.
A schoolgirl, also now an adult, said she was forced into joining the cult through fear for her life.
Batley told her a cult assassin would kill her if she did not take part in an elaborate initiation ceremony.
It started with a 10 minute lecture on the occult by him but concluded with sex.
The schoolgirl was later ordered to Batley’s home on regular occasions when she would have to give him sex.
She was also taken to Satanic sex parties where she would be passed round to have sex with strangers.
“I did it because I was told to by Colin,” she sobbed while giving evidence against Batley via videolink during the trial.
The perverted events described in court took place over several decades in both Kidwelly and addresses in London.
Batley was arrested at his home in Kidwelly last summer where the cult itself was created and flourished under the unsuspecting noses of locals.
As the leader of the cult, Batley’s dedication to Satanist material and Egyptian icons was well documented.
He bred rottweiler dogs from his home for cash, but kept two for personal safety which were named after ancient Egyptian royalty. He also bred cats which were given occult names.
Several of his victims were made to wear upside down crosses, and every home appears to have had at least one laminated copy of The Book of the Law.
Batley and the other convicted cult members will be sentenced at Swansea Crown Court on Friday.
This article was found at:
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/03/09/four-found-guilty-in-sex-cult-trial-91466-28307889/
Kelleher Newsdesk, to the detriment of its other journalistic commitments, has followed the activities of Chris and Clare Godson since 2000.
We first became aware of traumatized and abused girls in Ireland. We subsequently discovered a continent to continent trail of shocking cruelty and sexual depravity. We found pensioners with emptied bank accounts that had trusted Chris Godson. We found pensioners who had been taken to ATM machines and pressured into releasing funds for highly dubious work and “Christian” activities. We found people who had been subjected to HATE campaigns of poison pen letters by Clare Godson.
We found daughters torn from their parents by the threats/grooming of Clare Godson. We found former cult members who had been subjected to blackmail by Clare Godson. The sick trail now leads to Benevent l’Abbaye where these two people pretend a squeaky clean life of “Christian” goodness………..while hotly chasing 13yo girls. We can only WARN people to be on their guard when dealing with these charlatans.
If you are a survivor of the terrible abuse committed by Chris and Clare Godson ( USA, Ireland, Thailand etc.) and would like to share your own story, whatever form your ordeal took, you can do so (under a pen name if you wish). Simply email us at:kelleher.newsdesk@hotmail.co.uk and either include your account in the text or attach it as a Word or Pages document or you could arrange to give us access and publish it privately as a Google document.
Olivia Kelleher.
The pilgrim walks steadily into Benevent l’Abbaye.
The search for a clean place to shelter for the night starts at the tourist office and unsuspecting staff point out a shabby looking house with dirty curtains and peeling paint……………………
ACCUEIL PELERIN is the sign by the front entrance and the pilgrim enters the very weird world of Chris and Clare Godson.
The Godsons have a history! A history of depravity, abuse and criminality that stretches from continent to continent. Young girls exploited and physically hurt, often torn from their bemused parents.
You only have to read the accounts of the Colin Batley case to see how the Godson cult “snaps” its fingers and young girls are drawn into prostituting themselves for the cult. The Kidwelly cult is a pretty amateur outfit when compared to the professionally evil ways of Chris and Clare Godson. The “activities” of Chris and Clare Godson include: deception; blackmail; extortion; prostitution; child molestation…….
Kelleher Newsdesk is working tirelessly to halt this cult. We are putting as many WARNINGS about Chris and Clare Godson on the internet as possible.
If we save just a few people the job has been worthwhile!
Many cult leaders demonstrate mental illness.
This is particularly evident in Clare Godson. Our experts suggest that she suffers with bi polar or schizophrenia and is unable to discern reality from lies.
When lies are “religious” it becomes especially difficult to dis-entangle the mental state of leader and the victim.
It is also difficult for the authorities to intervene on behalf of victims even when everyone outside the cult understands that mental, sexual and physical abuse is being carried out by unscrupulous leaders (Clare Godson).
To further complicate this matter many cult leaders suffer from other forms of mental illness surrounding narcissism, which means that they are self deluded and cannot be reasoned with. Essentially they believe their own set of lies.
Cult leaders of the Godson type routinely push their victims into a state where they lose cognition and their ability to think rationally.
The victims of the Godson cult become less and less capable of taking any action to free themselves. Benevent l’Abbaye has become a virtual cult compound ruled by Chris and Clare Godson.
They have wangled themselves into a position where they offer a “pilgrim dormitory” and capture vulnerable people on the road to Compostelle.
The Godsons, by design, have put themselves directly in the path of pilgrims and this allows them to have a particularly heinous form of complete control over those with mental illnesses who essentially become mental slaves……………..
In turn these people become robotic workers for the Godson enterprises! They become physical slaves to a “snap” of Clare Godson’s fingers.
People with mental illnesses that interfere with their ability to work for Chris and Clare Godson will not be taken in by the cult.
Chris and Clare Godson may be “bonkers” but they love money…….
In France the Godsons have been working very hard to project a wholesome image!
They have pushed to increase their income and recruit a range of members to their depraved group. The Godsons have advertised on every possible ex-pat website and shamelessly quoted their so-called missionary past! Admittedly they are now down-playing their pseudo-Christian period……because publicity since the police raids has been very negative.
This couple of charlatans have strenuously denied wrong-doing in the USA and Ireland despite a vast testimony from victims.
Cult leaders of the Godson type have an innate ability to attract followers who have the skills and connexions that the leaders lack…..in particular they go after political connexions in the hope of protection when their sick “activities” are exposed.
Frequently, when illegal or immoral activities are brought to the public attention, as in this case, the cult leader will relocate, sometimes taking followers with him. BUT NOW THE IRISH VICTIMS HAVE CAUGHT UP WITH THEM!
He wll keep a low profile, only to resurface later with a new name, a new front group, and perhaps a new twist on the scam.
The Godson Cult is a SCAM which very often involves the sexual exploitation of underage girls. The Kidwelly Cult of Colin Batley is a pale shadow of the slick and perverted operation run by Chris and Clare Godson.
The Satanists of Ash Tree Close:
‘Evil’ paedophile found guilty of running sex cult from cul-de-sac in seaside village!
By REBECCA EVANS and PAUL BRACCHI
Colin Batley, 48, convicted of series of perverted sexual acts on children and adults!
NB. This cult is very siumilar to the cult operated by Chris and Clare Godson in Benevent l’Abbaye, France.
Guilty: Colin Batley arriving at Swansea Crown Court where he was convicted of a series of sexual offences!
The leader of a Satanic sex cult is facing a lengthy jail sentence after being found guilty of multiple counts of rape and child abuse.
Colin Batley, 48, exercised absolute control over his sect in a seaside cul-de-sac – abusing and exploiting helpless children as ‘sex toys’ for more than a decade.
He was found guilty yesterday of 35 sex offences against children and young adults. Yet social services were alerted to Batley’s child abuse in 2002 – and took no action.
As a consequence, the former Tesco security guard was allowed to continue ‘preying on the young and vulnerable’ for a further eight years – with the full support of wife Elaine.
At their semi in Kidwelly, South Wales, he would dress in hooded robes, chant before an altar and then orchestrate or participate in group sex with his female followers, including Jacqueline Marling and Shelly Millar.
One helpless girl was ‘initiated’ when she was just 11 and threatened with death by ‘cult assassins’ if she did not comply. At least two of his young victims gave birth as a result of the ‘systematic and prolonged abuse’.
At Swansea Crown Court, Marling, 42, and Elaine Batley, 47, were found guilty of five counts including sexual activity and indecency towards children.
Millar, 35, was found guilty of two similar charges. Another woman, Sandra Iveson, was found not guilty of gross indecency.
Those found guilty will face ‘substantial’ jail terms.
Colin Batley’s home was a typical semi in a typical cul-de-sac. But to the stream of visitors who trooped through the front door – especially on Sunday nights – it was the Temple. NB. Close observation of the Godson “pilgrim dormitory” in Benevent l’Abbaye reveals similar activities and a stream of sad degenerates searching for teenage girls…………..
In the lounge, a white cloth would be draped over a table to form an altar with candles and burning incense; nearby were tanks full of snakes and Satanic symbols. Those present would put on hooded robes and wear upside-down crucifixes.
There would be chanting, which would always end in group sex.
Children, boys and girls as young as 11, were also ‘initiated’ – repeatedly sexually abused in other words – during ‘Black Masses’ at Batley’s home. There were at least five victims that we know of, but police believe there could have been many more.
Yet these vile activities did not disturb the neighbours. Why? Because they were involved too. They lived in houses next to or opposite each other on the outskirts of Kidwelly (population 3,000) near Carmarthen.
For more than a decade Clos Yr Onnen, Welsh for Ash Tree Close, was possibly the most depraved street in Britain.
NB. The Godson Cult has upwards of 10 properties in Benevent l’Abbaye, all occupied by cult recruits or used as “pilgrim” gites. Many of the properties have dungeon-like cellars!
The proof was there, in black and white, on the charge sheet at Swansea Crown Court where Batley, his bisexual wife Elaine and their accomplices stood trial for a sickening catalogue of crimes.
The most depraved street in Britain? Ash Tree Close in Kedwelly, South Wales!
Prostitute: Shelly Millar was a prominent part of the cult leadership and her role in the procurement of young girls was similar to that of Clare Godson. We have evidence that Clare Godson intimidated underage girls into prostitution in the USA and Ireland.
All of these terrible crimes were perpetrated by culprits living in the same road; perhaps the single most shocking fact of all and Benevent is the scene of similar depravity.
This disturbing story begins not in Wales, however, but more than 200 miles away in East London. Batley, from Shoreditch, had a string of jobs including work as a Tesco security guard and on a fruit-and-vegetable stall.
He also bred rottweiler dogs and Siamese cats. His outwardly mundane existence, we now know, masked a sinister private life.
He and his wife had been dabbling with the occult ever since they were married 30 years ago and were obsessed with Aleister Crowley, the most notorious Satanist of the 20th century, the self-styled ‘Great Beast’.
One of Crowley’s publications, the Book of the Law, includes the passage: ‘Let all chaste women be despised. Sex with anyone is not just permissible but to be encouraged.’ And this: ‘Some of the most passionate and permanent attachments have begun with rape. Rome was founded thereon.’
Apart from anything else, the Book of the Law provided justification for the couple’s own ‘open marriage’.
Batley had sent a photo of his wife to the Readers’ Wives section of a pornographic magazine and this had led to them meeting ‘others for group activities’, the jury was told.
They included former dental nurse Jacqueline Marling and prostitute Shelly Millar, who both joined Batley’s occult ‘circle’.
They were given matching tattoos and addressed Batley as ‘My lord’ (police found him listed under this name on Millar’s mobile phone).
Such was Batley’s control over his wretched ‘coven’ that they had to pay him 25 per cent of their income.
Every time Millar entertained a client, she would send Batley a text message to tell him how much she had been paid. She had sex with more than 3,000 clients over a two-year period, making about £2,000 a month, a quarter of which went to him. It explained how Batley, officially unemployed, could afford a £45,000 caravan and frequent holidays abroad.
Batley would later claim that he moved to Wales for health reasons – to escape the smog. A claim rather undermined by the fact that his coven also relocated to the principality. Police believe there was another reason for the exodus; they suspect that other members of the cult – who have not been identified – were based in Wales.
Former dental nurse Jacqueline Marling joined Batley’s occult ‘circle’. Right, Batley’s bisexual wife, Elaine
The first East Londoner to arrive in Kidwelly was twice-married mother of four Sandra Iveson in 1995.
The following year, the Batleys moved in. Two years later, Marling became their next-door neighbour and Millar, 35, an unmarried mother of two who was brought up a Catholic, completed the set.
Did other residents have any inkling of the kind of people that were now living among them? Well, with hindsight, there were a few small clues.
John Wheatland and his wife Marion, both in their seventies, couldn’t help but notice how Colin Batley was ‘over at Shelly’s all the time’.
On another occasion, the Wheatlands encountered Millar and another woman kissing and touching each other in the supermarket. Yet they could not have imagined the extent of what was really going on behind the closed curtains of the so-called Temple. During occult gatherings it became the set of a horror movie.
Batley, in a hooded robe, would read out extracts from the Book of the Law, which had been typed out and laminated by his wife. Hanging above him on the wall was a gold ceremonial dagger and sitting menacingly nearby were his two rottweilers, Tutankhamun and Sekhet.
One young victim told how Batley introduced her to the cult by raping her when she was 11, telling her that having sex with him was a ‘test’ and if she did not pass she would go to ‘the Abyss’. The victim, now in her twenties, told the court: ‘I did not want him to do what he was doing, but I did not have a choice because what Colin said happened. What Colin said went.’
The abuse continued for years. As a teenager she became pregnant by Batley, who prevented her from having an abortion saying that babies belonged to the cult and not to their mothers.
Another victim, now in her thirties, said she was forced to have sex with Batley when she was 15. She was also ordered to perform sex acts on his wife and other men and women. ‘I was told I’d be killed if I didn’t become part of the cult,’ she said. ‘Colin Batley had a gun and brought it to meetings. I was so scared I just did what I was told. I was in the living room at his home and he told me there would be an initiation. I was called upstairs. Elaine was there. He would just snap his fingers and say, “Strip”.’
She said that on one occasion when she was 16, she was made to have sex with a boy of 15 – as Marling filmed them.
The girl was told she would be murdered by ‘cult assassins’ if she did not give in to Batley’s demands. Through a video link, she sobbed as she told how she was taken to other addresses by Batley where she had sex with other men. ‘I did it because I was told to by Colin.’ Another woman victim said she was recruited into the cult and became pregnant after becoming a ‘sexual plaything’ for the group. Batley ordered her not to abort her ‘occult child’.
One male victim said that, as a teenager, he was tricked into having sex with Batley’s wife.
The witness recalled how Batley promised to set him up with a girl and directed him to a dark bedroom. Once inside, he got into bed and then realised that the other person lying beside him was Elaine Batley.
One of the charges against Shelly Millar was that she seduced a boy of 15. Millar claimed he was 16, and that she was teaching him how to have sex as he had a new girlfriend ‘he wanted to impress’. She had sex with him twice in Batley’s caravan in Tenby. Batley, it emerged during the trial, had been reported to Carmarthenshire Social Services in 2002 by a concerned relative. She said Batley had been abused by his own father and that ‘history was about to repeat itself’.
The warning went unheeded, allowing Batley and his cult to prey on youngsters week after week, month after month for another eight years.
The Batleys had four children, one of whom, Damian, died of strangulation three years ago when a bizarre sex game went wrong. He was found hanging from his bedroom door at the family home and had been filming himself.
Finally, last year, one of Batley’s victims went to the police. It was one of the girls he had impregnated as a teenager. She said she feared he might target her own child.
Batley was tipped off about the police inquiry and, by the time he was arrested, had destroyed potential evidence. But officers found home-made films of two of his victims on his camcorder. Interviewed 11 times by detectives, he steadfastly maintained his innocence.
The jury did not believe him. They saw him for what he was – ‘an evil and manipulative sexual predator’ who had used the cult and ‘black magic’ as a cover for his own perverted ends.
Back in Kidwelly, there was relief at the verdicts. ‘I’m just glad they’ve all finally gone,’ said John Wheatland.
He spoke for everyone in Ash Tree Close.
Sex cult was inspired by ‘the Great Beas!’
The cult’s inspiration, Aleister ‘the Great Beast’ Crowley, believed himself to be a prophet of a new age of personal liberty.
He was a bisexual heroin addict whose doctrine for life was ‘Do What Thou Wilt’, advocating sexual promiscuity and prostitution.
Crowley was a frequenter of orgies and brothels, and contracted gonorrhea from a prostitute.
Born into a wealthy family in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, he gained such notoriety during his lifetime that he was denounced in the press as ‘the wickedest man in the world’.
Crowley’s work has been cited as an influence by famous figures including Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, who bought Crowley’s former home and set up an occult bookshop and publishing house which published some of his work.
Page once said: ‘I feel Aleister Crowley is a misunderstood genius of the 20th century because his whole thing was liberation of the person.’
Aleister Crowley abandoned his wife and daughter for life in his cult, and Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, was said to be influenced by his ideas!
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Kelleher Newdesk takes a position on the future management of Chris and Clare Godson:
It is Kelleher newsdesks’ position that all child sex offenders should be sentenced indefinitely with a minimum custodial period set by a specialist judiciary, followed by a mandatory conditional release
period and on-going monitoring and treatment.
This treatment needs to include individually-tailored case management and risk assessment utilising a battery of reliable tools.
Offenders of the Godson type should only be considered for release on the completion of their term of detention, and/or when they have demonstrated to the satisfaction of a specialist “risk management board” that they have successfully completed rehabilitation and their risk of harm to the community is negligible. Obviously, work that directly puts them into contact with vulnerable members of the public like the presently operated B&B, gites or so-called “pilgrim dormitory” should be forbidden by the Court/Tribunal in the appropriate jurisdiction.
Olivia Kelleher.
Mr Haworth has worked as a full-time specialist, consultant and expert witness in cultism since 1979, informed by his own experience as a former member of a cult.
He told BBC Wales that cult leaders often used techniques such as food and sleep deprivation to break people down.
This could happen in a matter of three of four days, he explained.
“It seems to work best on people with very healthy minds,” he said.
“A lot of people imagine that people that get involved in cults must be troubled or warped in some particular way to start with, and that’s rarely the case.”
Mr Haworth said between 500 and 1,000 cults were operating throughout the UK.
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Satanic cult boss convinced me he could make tsunamis happen!
By JENNA SLOAN
Published: 31 Mar 2011
HOLDING her daughter tightly, Gemma Marling whispers “I love you” to three-year-old Emily.
It is something she tells the little girl several times each day.
For Gemma, 21, knows from bitter experience how important a mother’s unconditional love and support is.
Earlier this month she gave evidence in court which resulted in her own mother, 42-year-old Jacqueline Marling, being jailed for 12 years for a series of sickening sex attacks on her own daughter and other children.
Gemma’s evidence also helped to jail Jacqueline’s depraved lover, Colin Batley – a Satanic cult leader.
And one day she will have to break the horrifying news to Emily that Batley is her father.
Gemma said: “Now the trial is over the reality has hit me. I know I’m never going to have a mum.
“People take their parents for granted but I’d do anything to have a mum and dad.”
Gemma’s ordeal started at the age of eight when Jacqueline moved the family from their home in east London to Kidwelly, a town in Carmarthenshire, West Wales.
They settled into a nondescript semi in Clos Yr Onnen – Welsh for Ash Tree Close – but behind the house’s bland exterior was a Satanic nightmare orchestrated by depraved Colin Batley, who lived next door.
Gemma said: “My mum knew Colin in London but I didn’t meet him until we moved to Wales. One night I was in bed and my mum got me up and took me downstairs.
“Colin was sitting in the living room. There was a candle flickering and I couldn’t see him properly. It was like a horror movie.”
Jacqueline then performed a sex act on Batley in front of her terrified daughter. Gemma recalls: “Colin said to me, ‘One day you’ll start your periods and I’ll have you.’
“After that I was terrified, but Colin didn’t touch me again for three years, although he was constantly in and out of our house. My mum did what he said and so did we – you follow what your mum does. She’s meant to look after you.”
Batley was an ardent disciple of occult and Satanist writer Aleister Crowley, and styled himself a cult “lord”. He built up a harem of adoring female followers who lived in the close.
They included his bisexual wife Elaine, who was jailed for eight years for her part in the abuse, Jacqueline, and prostitute Shelly Millar, who was sentenced to five years.
All were tattooed with Egyptian symbols and followed Batley’s warped theories promoting rape and promiscuity.
When Gemma was 11 Batley initiated her into the cult.
She said: “Colin raped me for the first time. It was a sunny summer day and I’d come inside to escape the heat when he forced himself on me.
“He then visited every night for the next eight weeks, as he was decorating our house.
“He said the sex was a test. If I passed, I’d go to the palace where he lived.
“I feel a mug now for believing it but what else would I know?
“If I didn’t do it I was told I’d go to hell, where I’d suffer a lifetime of pain with no sleep or respite.
“I was too scared to tell anyone what was going on. I didn’t know it was happening to anyone else. I thought I was on my own.”
When Gemma turned 14 her mother began to join in the sex abuse, and when she was 16 Jacqueline even filmed her having sex with a boy of 15.
Batley ruled the cult with his encyclopaedic knowledge of The Book Of The Law, a text written by his hero Crowley, and used twisted logic to keep control.
Gemma recalled: “Colin said he made the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 happen. He said he’d done it because we had broken so many rules and the gods were angry.
“On the day he was sentenced, the earthquake and tsunami in Japan happened, and I instantly thought Colin had done it. I know now that’s not possible but he was very good at placing things and convincing you that you’d caused a disaster. I was totally brainwashed.”
At 17 Gemma became pregnant with Batley’s baby. She said: “When I found out it was the first time I’d cried in six years. I didn’t want a baby – I couldn’t bring a child into that kind of hell.”
But the cult leader forced her to keep the child, saying the baby belonged to the gods. Gemma explained: “I said I wanted an abortion but I was called a murderer. When I was pregnant I attempted suicide twice.
“I cut myself and took an overdose. I just didn’t want to be there. Colin found out and said the gods had saved me.”
Gemma was 18 when she gave birth in February 2008. She recalled: “After I had Emily I felt like I had something worth living for. She gave me my life back.”
But when Emily was three months old Batley forced Gemma to work as a prostitute in a Bristol brothel for four days a week. At this point she could take no more.
She and another cult member who also wanted to leave contacted relatives on Facebook using the internet in a public library.
Gemma said: “I made sure I had my passport and our birth certificates, and we were picked up at 2.30am on May 22, 2009. I left with a baby and a suitcase full of nappies and clothes, and I haven’t been back or contacted them since. I hadn’t seen or spoken to them until I saw them in court.”
After escaping, Gemma traced relatives in Essex, who she has now moved in with. With their support she reported Batley to the police and the cult members were arrested.
Gemma gave her evidence to the court via videolink, and earlier this month 48-year-old Batley was jailed for life with a minimum of 11 years at Swansea Crown Court on 11 charges of rape, six serious sexual assaults, three indecent assaults and causing a child to have sex.
Judge Paul Thomas said Batley had created a “sick little kingdom” and was a “danger to children”.
Gemma’s mother Jacqueline was convicted of aiding and abetting rape, causing prostitution, indecency with a child and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.
Gemma said: “The last time I saw her was at the sentencing.
“She snarled, ‘What are you doing here?’ and I broke down. As I’m a mum myself it makes what she did seem even more awful.
“Now my focus is on Emily, I want to give her everything I didn’t have and I want her to be happy.”
The above article provides a further insight into the mechanics and mind-set of a cult that bears striking similarity to the sick cult now operated by Chris and Clare Godson in Benevent l’Abbaye, Central France.