Pastor Mackenzie’s Kenyan cult: The mother who fled Shakahola forest to save her children
A mother-of-five tells the BBC how she escaped a Kenyan doomsday cult where at least 200 people died. …
“When the child cries or asks for food or water, we were told to take a cane and beat them so that they could go and eat in heaven,” Salema explains. “So I thought about it and I said I cannot go on with this situation, I can’t eat while my child is starving. I told myself, if I feel this bad when I fast, how about my child?”