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词条 George Feigley
释义

  1. Imprisonment

  2. Release

  3. Death

  4. See also

  5. References

{{About|the sex cult leader|the psychedelian religion|Neo-American Church}}

George Feigley (June 23, 1940 – April 13, 2009) was an American church leader. He has been described as a sex cult leader.{{r|ABC|CNN|CharlestonGazette}} Feigley served over 32 years in prison for sex crimes against children, from 1975 to 2008.{{r|ABC}}

In 1971, Feigley founded an organization he called the Neo American Church (not be confused with the more notable and unrelated Neo-American Church, a psychedelian religion founded by Arthur Kleps in the mid 1960s) and the associated Neo American School. The church and school were located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

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Church doctrine emphasized the transcendent or mystical power of orgasm.{{r|ABC|NYTimes}} According to police reports, it also advocated the use of children for sexual gratification.{{r|ABC}}While leading the cult, Feigley authored several publications under the pseudonym G.G. Stoctay.[1]

The charismatic{{r|ABC|HarrisburgPatriotNews}} Feigley, who called himself "The Light of the World",{{r|CNN|HarrisburgPatriotNews|PennLive (Harrisburg Rapist)}} gathered a small group of followers, mostly women, into his church.{{r|NYTimes|PennLive (Harrisburg Rapist)}} As of 1983, the group, which at one point had numbered over twenty persons,{{r|PennLive (Harrisburg Rapist)}} included about ten adults, one or two of whom were men (five children of group members were then living in foster homes where they had been placed by the state).{{r|NYTimes}}

Imprisonment

Feigley led the church in freedom for only about five years, as he was arrested in 1975 on multiple counts of statutory rape, indecent assault, and corrupting the morals of minors. He was found guilty of statutory rape of two teen-age girls and was sentenced to 10 years to 20 years in prison.{{r|NYTimes}} His wife was found guilty of corrupting the morals of minors.

{{Reduced pull quote |1=right |2=I require total devotion to my desires. You may not have a will nor desire of your own which do not project my wishes. I expect this complete commitment from my wives, my concubines and my children... Make yourselves my delight... May my peace abide with you. |3=George Feigly |4=Letter from prison{{r|PennLive (Harrisburg Rapist)}}}}

Notwithstanding his imprisonment, some of Feigley's followers remained loyal, roaming to follow him as he was moved from prison to prison or when he was a fugitive.{{r|NYTimes}}

In 1976, Feigley scaled a prison wall and fled to West Virginia. While he was on the lam he hid at a farm near Thornton, West Virginia, which he and his followers referred to as the "Aaron Farm"[2][3]. He was apprehended in 1978, but escaped from the Taylor County Jail in Grafton less than a month later while awaiting extradition back to Pennsylvania[3]. After his second escape he was free for two months before he was recaptured, hiding on another farm near Sneedville, Tennessee[4].{{r|ABC}}

His women followers visited him regularly at the State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.{{r|NYTimes}} The organization continued to operate; a 1983 raid on Feigley's home found young children playing with sex toys and boxes of child pornography. Feigley's wife and others pleaded guilty to corruption of minors and were sentenced to prison.{{r|ABC}}

In 1983, two of Feigley's followers, a man and a women, died in circumstances that led authorities to believe they were intending to break Feigley out of prison. (They drowned in a sewer line close to Western Penitentiary where Feigley was then held.){{r|ABC}}

In 1994, while still in prison, Feigley was convicted of instructing his wife and another man over a prison phone to have sex with a 14-year-old girl. Feigley was found guilty of conspiracy to commit involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and sentenced. Because of problems with the search warrants, Feigley's wife and the girl's mother were able to plead guilty and receive probation.{{r|ABC}}

In 1996, while imprisoned, Feigley co-founded the prisoners' advocacy website [https://web.archive.org/web/20090508191210/http://www.prisoners.com:80/ www.prisoners.com], along with his wife Sandra. He contributed to the website to the extent possible while he was in prison. Prisoners.com purported to be "The Voice of the Imprisoned" and criticized the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections for alleged abuses. The website also featured biographies of and works of art by prisoners, and health essays by Feigley under the pseudonym "Professor Stoctay".[5] However in addition to this advocacy for prisoners, Prisoners.com also published some of Feigley's rationalizations for his crimes.[6]

Release

Feigley became eligible for parole in 1990, but parole was denied then at each subsequent annual review.{{r|PennLive (Harrisburg Rapist)}} Having served the full time for all his convictions, Feigley was released from prison on August 15, 2008, to some consternation.{{r|ABC}}{{r|CNN}}{{r|Turley}} His convictions were not covered under Pennsylvania's Megan's Laws (his 1976 conviction preceded Megan's Law, and conspiracy to commit involuntary deviate sexual intercourse – his 1994 charge – isn't covered under the law), so he was not required to register as a sex offender,{{r|ABC}} nor was he on parole as he had served his sentences in full.

Death

His return home was met with a crowd of protestors.{{r|PennLive (A Small Crowd)}} A neighbor circulated a petition to prevent Feigley's return to his home.{{r|PennLive (Single Mom Fights)}} Feigley, who left prison in poor health,{{r|PennLive (Harrisburg Rapist)}} died on April 13, 2009.{{r|Tributes}}

See also

  • List of fugitives from justice who disappeared

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.ebay.com/itm/THE-ZODIACAL-CALENDAR-GG-Stoctay-NEO-AMERICAN-CHURCH-SEX-CULT-SIGNED-ED-/122717215158|title=THE ZODIACAL CALENDAR GG Stoctay NEO-AMERICAN CHURCH, SEX CULT, SIGNED & #ED {{!}} eBay|website=eBay|language=en|access-date=2018-03-22}}
2. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/?spot=18453696|title=Farm In W. Va. Once Used As Hideaway|last=Flaherty|first=Mary Pat|date=7 August 1983|work=The Pittsburgh Press|access-date=7 December 2018}}
3. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26040960/george_feigley_escapes_from_jail_after/|title=Search for rapist|last=|first=|date=18 October 1978|work=Evening Herald of Shenandoah-Ashland-Mahanoy City|access-date=7 December 2018}}
4. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26041289/george_feigley_recaptured_in_tennessee/|title=Sneedville Cult Leader Charged In Prison Escape|last=|first=|date=22 February 1979|work=The Tennesseean|access-date=7 December 2018}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100518143931/http://www.prisoners.com:80/heavens.html|title=Views of the Prisons /81215/|date=2010-05-18|access-date=2018-03-19}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url=http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=5575131&page=1|title=Child Sex 'Cult' Leader Set to Go Free|last=News|first=A. B. C.|date=2008-08-14|website=ABC News|language=en|access-date=2018-03-22}}
7. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/04/us/inmate-said-to-lead-cult-mixing-sex-and-religion.html |title=Inmate Said to Lead Cult Mixing Sex and Religion |author=Associated Press |date=December 4, 1983 |work=New York Times |accessdate=June 16, 2016}}
8. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/15/cult.leader.release/ |title=Terms of Sex Cult Leader's Release Anger Community |date=August 15, 2008 |work=CNN |accessdate=June 16, 2016}}
9. ^{{cite news |title=Sex Cult Leader Lived in West Virginia |first=Gary |last=Harki |date=August 22, 2008 |work=Charleston Gazette |location=West Virginia }}
10. ^{{cite web |last=Turley |first=Jonathan |author-link=Jonathan Turley |title=Community Outraged by Unrestricted Release of Religious Pedaphilic Leader |date=August 16, 2008 |work=Jonathan Turley |url=https://jonathanturley.org/2008/08/16/community-outraged-by-unrestricted-release-of-religious-pedaphilic-leader/ |accessdate=June 16, 2016}}
11. ^{{cite news |title=For Feigley, Prison Was New Beginning |first=Carrie |last=Cassidy |date=August 10, 2008 |work=Harrisburg [Pennsylvania] Patriot-News }}
12. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2008/08/a_small_crowd_protests_as_conv.html |title=A Small Crowd Protests as Convicted Rapist George Feigley Arrives at His House |first=Michael |last=Fernandez |date=August 15, 2008 |work=Penn Live |accessdate=June 17, 2016}}
13. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2008/08/convicted_rapist_to_leave_pris.html |title=Harrisburg Rapist to Be Released from Prison |author= |date=August 9, 2008 |work=Penn Live |accessdate=June 18, 2016}}
14. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.tributes.com/obituary/show/George-E.-Feigley-85827174 |title=George E. Feigley |work=Tributes.com |accessdate=June 17, 2016}}
15. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2008/08/single_mom_fights_sexcult_lead.html |title=Single Mom Fights Sex-Cult Leader's Return to Neighborhood |author= |date=August 12, 2008 |work=Penn Live |accessdate=June 17, 2016}}
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