Kenyan starvation cult leader faces death penalty over 191 deaths
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Self-proclaimed Kenyan pastor Paul Mackenzie faces a possible death sentence Friday for orchestrating a starvation cult that killed 190 children and an...
Self-proclaimed Kenyan pastor Paul Mackenzie faces a possible death sentence Friday for orchestrating a starvation cult that killed 190 children and an adult, as grieving families fear his influence could survive behind prison walls.
For Stephen Mwiti, whose six children died in the Shakahola Forest after his wife took them there in 2022, no punishment can undo the devastation. Even if Mackenzie is executed, the father says, he will never get his children back.
"Even if he were to be hanged, I will never see my children again," Mwiti, 48, told Reuters this week while visiting the grave of his son Samuel in the coastal city of Malindi.
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