Conviction New religious movements Messianic / communal movement Hunan, China · 1999

China: 'Lord God Sect' founder executed after conviction for raping eleven followers

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Appellate history

1999

Death sentence upheld; executed.

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Convicted

Authority role

founder of the 'Zhusheng Jiao' (Lord God Sect), claiming to be the Lord God

Organization

Zhusheng Jiao (Lord God Sect)

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The rapes were presented to believers as the prerogative of the god they followed — doctrine as the mechanism of access.

Prophecy or divine command
Sacred sex, purity, or sexual-energy claim

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Proceedings

1999-10-01 · conviction and death sentence; upheld and carried out

Hunan courts; Hunan High People's Court, China. Liu Jiaguo, who founded the Zhusheng Jiao in 1993 claiming to be the Lord God, was convicted of raping eleven female followers — two of them under fourteen — along with fraud and the cult-organising count. The Hunan High People's Court upheld his death sentence and he was executed in October 1999; his deputy Zhu Aiqing received seventeen years.

Documented coercion mechanisms

rapes framed as the divine prerogative of the sect's god-figure over believers

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national news agency execution report Deseret News / wire: 'China executes leader of cult for rape and fraud'.: Contemporaneous wire report.
advocacy context case background Dui Hua Human Rights Journal: background on the Lord God Sect prosecutions.: Human-rights research context on the case set.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.deseret.com/1999/10/13/19470304/china-executes-leader-of-cult-for-rape-and-fraud/ Corpus classification: national-news-agency; evidentiary role: execution-report. SHA-256 358db7ae5b2252c0031772f29e44a796bd7630f429ec3c16d1bab86ad6c4dbc0
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger
Source and tier basis: https://www.duihuahrjournal.org/2012/12/three-imprisoned-in-lord-god-sect-cult.html Corpus classification: advocacy-context; evidentiary role: case-background. SHA-256 e57025229be9c180580e58009e5b0297821cbe8d8b26cceb7f8ee6c71fef027a
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger

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