The leader of an embattled upstate New York self-help organization has been hit with child pornography charges. Federal prosecutors announced the new charges against Keith Raniere on Wednesday. Raniere, 58, was arrested last year in a sex-trafficking investigation of his Albany-based NXIVM group. Earlier Wednesday, group co-founder Nancy Salzman pleaded guilty in a case featuring sensational claims that some followers became branded sex slaves. Salzman is a co-defendant in a case against an upstate New York group called NXIVM, accused of branding some of its female followers and forcing them into unwanted sex.

Source: CBC News March 13, 2019 20:37 UTC