A Baltimore prosecutor has requested that a “cult” member be “deprogrammed” as a condition for probation, reports the Baltimore Sun.
The subject for this proposed “deprogramming” has already entered a guilty plea to a murder conspiracy charge this week and may be released from custody soon.
But the public defender representing the “cult” member says, “Let’s wait for the psychological evaluation.”
The sensational criminal case has received substantial news coverage in Baltimore and included two other defendants, who likewise entered into plea agreements with prosecutors.
Also charged and in jail is the “cult” leader Scott Caruthers who once led “BDX,” a strange sci-fi group that claimed cats could communicate with space aliens.
It seems another member of BDX was already “deprogrammed” shortly after being arrested and is expected to testify against Caruthers for the prosecution.
However, despite the guilty plea of his codefendants, Caruthers apparently thinks that a jury trial will vindicate him.
Will he claim it was all really a cat conspiracy?
Deprogramming may disabuse “cult victims” of undue influence, but it’s doubtful that such an intervention would help a “cult leader” like Caruthers.
After all, such a person would not be the victim of alleged “brainwashing,” but rather its originator.
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