Overview

• The rescued children, including 59 under age 5, were found in welfare homes connected to GISB Holdings.
• Medical screenings revealed that at least 13 teens were sodomized and 172 children suffered long-term physical and emotional injuries.
• Police believe children were instructed to deny knowing their parents as part of a fraudulent scheme to collect donations.
• Authorities have frozen 138 bank accounts and seized 14 properties linked to GISB as part of a money laundering probe.
• GISB, which has roots in the banned Al Arqam sect, has around 10,000 followers still practicing its teachings despite the group's leaders' arrests.