New Mexico: “Cult Leader Says Lying Naked With Girls Is Religious Healing Practice”

The Religion Clause Blog reports: “In Ranton, New Mexico last Friday, Wayne Bent was indicted for inappropriately touching three minor girls while ‘lying naked’ with them.”

Small Town Newspapers Service reports: “The attorney for the leader of what many people refer to as a cult that maintains its compound northeast of Des Moines told a judge in Raton Friday that Wayne Bent‘s practice of lying with naked children is a ‘religious healing practice’ and has no sexual connotations.”