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BY TIM HAECK on April 16, 2014
A nationwide arrest warrant has been issued for 52-year-old Victor Barnard. (DOL) | Zoom
The suspected leader of a religious cult, charged with sexually abusing girls, might be hiding out in the Spokane area.
After an investigation that lasted more than three years, authorities in Pine County, Minnesota have charged Victor Barnard with 59 counts of Criminal Sexual Conduct involving two girls.
“My parents never even had the talk with me, I had just gotten my period months before,” Jess Schweiss told Fox9.com in Minneapolis.
The charges result from evidence provided by two women who left the River Road Fellowship in the last several years, according to Pine County Sheriff’s chief deputy Steve Blackwell, including one woman who recorded dates of the sexual abuse.
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