Category: News Author : JR Posted: January 19, 2009
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Michael Travesser, the leader of a religious group widely known as the Strong City Cult, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of sexual misconduct with two young girls.
Michael Travesser / Wayne Bent
Michael Travesser is actually a pseudonym created by a man named Wayne Bent. Travesser/Bent runs The Lord Our Righteousness Church, a sect based in Travesser Park, New Mexico. Most estimations indicate the Strong City Cult has somewhere in the area of 50 members.
Michael Travesser/Wayne Bent was convicted of criminal sexual contact with a minor and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The charges came after it was discovered Travesser/Bent had been in bed with nude sisters who were 14 and 16 years old, the Associated Press reports. Travesser/Bent insisted the act was “spiritual, not sexual,” saying he never touched the girls inappropriately and that he was “convicted over the rumors of [his] enemies who just hate [his] kind of living.”
Travesser/Bent’s attorney has indicated she will file an appeal. His followers are also calling for his release.
Prior to his work with the Strong City Cult, Wayne Bent had served as a minister for the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. He has claimed that God “anointed him messiah.”
Strong City Cult: Past Investigations
Three minors were taken from the Strong City compound last May when police believed they had been engaging in “inappropriate contact” with Travesser/Bent. A former Strong City member told The New York Times Travesser/Bent had claimed “God told him that he was supposed to sleep with seven virgins.” Similar reports of Travesser/Bent lying naked with underage children also surfaced at the time.
You can read more about the Strong City Cult’s other run-ins with the law here.
Strong City Cult Video
The following report shows clips from interviews with Michael Travesser/Wayne Bent, as well as some video from inside the Strong City Cult compound.
Feb 11, 2009
esther says lorriane is a lier and i choose to believe esther and i think dr phil should be ashamed of himself with this pure bias show im totally disqused with this show.
Feb 24, 2009
Filthy papes!
Mar 12, 2009
He's been jailed for ten years for Child sex abuse. His followers are gaunt lifeless and unhealthy take a good look at them. He 'consumates' (a more innocent way of saying FUCKING) whoever 's wife he feels like laying when he wants even his own sons, what if he was to impregnate her what would that child be to the husband 'this is my brother-step-son WTF! Bias! WTF!! LOOK at them, EVERYONE is a result of their surroundings, they're not bad people it's who they're following how DARE he. If he really was a messiah then what makes him the right one and separates him from all the other thousands of cult leaders that claim the same??!!! 'I laid naked with him and it felt like i was seeing a side of god i've never felt before' the words of a 14 yr old girl!!! Good on Dr Phil for bringing scum to the surface to warn the rest of us. Like I said earlier, 'HE'S BEEN JAILED FOR 10 YEARS FOR CHILD SEX ABUSE'!! nuff said!
May 14, 2009
wayne bent is a sick fuck. and he knows hes a lier. he knows he deserves to be in jail. all is followers are weak people. and the girls are whores. underaged girls want to have sex with a 70 yr old man! UM YOURE A SLUT. read the fucking bible you ignorant cunts and learn what it really says… having sex with old men is in there? go fucking hang yourself all you fucking wierdos. where the fuck do you people come from? have a nice time hell. and why dont u cult followers educate yourselves a little… maybe you wouldnt be so niaeve. um… the internet is not educating. WHAT THE hell thats seriously the most ridiculous thing ive ever herd. sorry for cursing but its really the only way to express my disgust. dont worry GOD told me it was ok.
May 14, 2009
your IGNORANT.
May 17, 2009
The guy is mentally disturbed. He even believes he is the messiah. Anyone following him and discarding their own moral fiber after finding out what he is all about is weak-minded. Cursing and using profanity toward him isn't appropriate. (People should be above low behavior if they want their comments taken seriously.) He doesn't belong in prison. He belongs in a psychiatric facility, with civil commitment facing him after that. He would likely remain incarcerated in one form or another for the remainder of his life if the system was based on wisdom, operated effectively, and was less pugilistic in nature. As it is now, he will do his time, be released and do it all over again.
May 17, 2009
People NEED to follow. It is an instictive feeling that offers the weak-minded security in a world that they feel they have no control over. Even a man as vile as Michael can find welps that will follow blindly. They are out there. Lead or Follow!
May 18, 2009
he is not mentally disturbed he is just a lier. i took a pyschology course and studied this guy. their is nothing wrong with him mentally other than he is a sicko and a horrible person. he just wanted to fuck women, he belongs in prision… for a very long time
May 26, 2009
Well… …he's probably in a jail cell now with “big bubba” – and maybe BB feels the “leading” to get naked and lay down in bed with him too. but not to worry – it'll be a caring and nurturing sodomization!!! I think that michael will be the one calling bubba “Daddy” though – and not the other way around!!! Poetic Justice!!!
Jun 6, 2009
It is sad that some churches over the world have leaders who brainwashed their followers to do what they said to their own agenda or advantage. I have relatives and friends who contributed = tithe 10% of their salaries to the churches. These followers take up two or three jobs to make money for their churches. The theory being drilled into their minds was give to God and you will prosper. Some young school children even contributed 10% of their pocket money that their parents gave them to the church. It is amazing even tertiary educated adults are “tricked”. It is also not surprising that these followers don't even give their poor parent money but to the church. Some church bought properties as investment for the church (themselves). Their preachers live in big house and drive big car and own properies or even have their wives 'buy' their ways into “Hollywood” or music scene. These churches are mostly found in S.E. Asia.
Jul 26, 2009
Well the news just came out that they convicted old Tony Alamo for getting it on with some minors – I guess justice does prevail in the same way that Michael was “inappropriate” with some minors. Either way, this is not the kind of conduct that develops healthy minded contributing citizens. I watched the special on Michael (in which he essentially took the sexual contact rights away from some husband) and was sickened by what his followers allowed this person to get away with. These guys take the cake when it comes to combining power and religion. Respectfully, Sickened in Wisconsin!
Oct 12, 2011
sick b*stard, using the Lords name in this way is complete sham, he will suffer the hardway not now but after death.