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BuzzFeed News

March 13, 2019

By Brianna Sacks

Keith Raniere, a self-help guru who allegedly recruited women into his group and forced them to be sex slaves, also victimized teenage girls, according to new court filings.

The co-founder of NXIVM, the self-help group that was allegedly used as a front of a secret sex cult, now faces child pornography charges.

Federal prosecutors, who announced the charges Wednesday, allege Keith Raniere took photos of two underage girls, one of whom he made a “slave.”

Authorities in New York arrested Raniere last year, busting open the bizarre operation of the self-help group that prosecutors say recruited women into a type of pyramid scheme, then brainwashing and manipulating them into becoming sex slaves while following strict diets and performing manual labor.