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SANTA FE — The leader of an apocalyptic sect in northeastern New Mexico was arrested Tuesday and charged with felony sex crimes against children.
State police arrested Wayne Bent, 66, on three counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and three counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, said a Department of Public Safety spokesman.
Bent was being held on $500,000 bail at the Union County Detention Center in Clayton and was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday.
According to the affidavit for the arrest warrant, Bent is alleged to have touched three girls in 2006 and 2007. All of them were younger than 18 at the time, and one was 12.
