Cult leader arrested
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Buenos Aires
Argentina last week deported a German cult leader to Chile, where he was wanted for molesting dozens of children. Paul Schaefer, a former Nazi, had been convicted in absentia of using a free clinic to lure victims to his secretive colony in Chile. Schaefer, 83, also faces charges that he let secret police use his land to torture and execute political prisoners during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, between 1973 and 1990. A spokesman for the colony, where Schaefer was once revered as a god, said the commune had changed its ways. “The time for justice has come,” he said.
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