'Soldiers of Christ' beat and starve woman to death, put her in car trunk, GA cops say

Source: Miami Herald

‘Soldiers of Christ’ beat and starve woman to death, put her in car trunk, GA cops say

Irene Wright
Thu, September 14, 2023 at 6:17 PM EDT·3 min read

A body found in the trunk of a car parked outside a popular Korean bathhouse revealed abuse and deceit at the hands of a self-proclaimed religious group, Georgia police said.

Police were called to Jeju Sauna in Duluth on Sept. 12 after a 911 caller said there was a body in the trunk of a silver Jaguar parked outside, McClatchy News previously reported.

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The woman, who has not been identified pending the notification of her death to her family in South Korea, was lured to the United States sometime over the summer by a group calling themselves the “Soldiers of Christ,” police said in a Sept. 14 news conference streamed by WAGA.

She came to the U.S. intending to join the group, police said in the news conference, but when she arrived she was put in the basement and beaten.

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