El Cabrito Sect
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In 1988, a former banana plantation named El Cabrito in La Gomera became home to a hippie commune founded by the renowned Austrian painter Otto Muehl, an artist from the Viennese Actionism, an avant-garde movement known for its graphic images of blood and violence.
Muehl, who had previously founded the Friedrichshof group in his home country, which attracted 600 residents and was considered an authoritarian sect. In 1988, the commune also established a presence in La Gomera, in the former banana plantation of El Cabrito, where they settled under the pretext of fleeing the nuclear danger of Chernobyl, an argument that concealed the desires of both Muehl and his wife to promote free love with underage girls.
It was common for the artist to engage in sexual relationships with girls no older than 15 years, daughters of the community members with whom he even had children. Muehl also managed to financially benefit from the commune by requesting money from his followers.
After the revelations of the activities taking place on the remote El Cabrito estate came to light, Otto Muehl was arrested by the Spanish government in the early 1990s and extradited to his homeland, where he was sentenced to six years in prison on charges of paedophilia.
The Family of Love
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The Family of Love, a branch of the dangerous sect The Children of God, had a presence in Tenerife, where in 1974 their leader, David Berg, arrived fleeing from US justice who accused him, among other crimes, of paedophilic practices and seeking personal enrichment by coercing economic donations from his followers.
During his time in the Canaries, Berg convinced young women from his congregation to go to nightclubs in Puerto de la Cruz and offer free sex to the clients.
“And he said unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men” (Matthew 4:19). For Mo, one of the pseudonyms by which David Berg, referred to by his followers, who also called him Father David or Moses David, believed that women should be those fishers who, through flirting, would lead men to the kingdom of God. During his time in Tenerife, his new partner, Karen Zerby, gave birth to a child named Ricky, nicknamed Davidito, whom David adopted as he was conceived while Zerby was engaging in the required flirtatious fishing. Berg, who managed to escape the islands when his practices were exposed and who, during the Californian phase of The Children of God, had among his followers the family of actors River and Joaquin Phoenix, died in 1994 and was buried in Costa de Caparica (Portugal).
New Age Gran Canarian Shamanism
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Rediscovering oneself or curing cancer and AIDS were some of the arguments used by the leader of a neo-shamanic sect, arrested in 2023 in the town of Santa Lucía de Tirajana on Gran Canaria, to attract victims. The priestess of this group, labelled a new age sect due to the use of health-threatening psychoactive substances in their rituals, supplied substances like ayahuasca, Bufo alvarius toad, kambo frog, or, among other concoctions, San Pedro cactus to her followers recruited through social media and websites where the leader of these rituals advertised the meetings.
The Family of Love, a branch of the sect The Children of God, had a presence in Tenerife, where in 1974 their leader, David Berg, engaged in sexual abuse of minors
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The use of these substances was aimed at the recruitment and control of attendees, thereby securing their source of funding. In fact, the leader of the group was arrested by National Police officers as they were about to start one of the sessions in the southeast of Gran Canaria. During the investigation, it was revealed that minors were sometimes involved in these rituals. The price ranged from 150 to 300 euros per person, depending on the substances each client wanted to consume, and although the retreat lasted the entire weekend, the ceremony itself lasted one night.
Sisters of the Beelzebub Halo
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Comprised solely of women who gathered every Friday night to engage in orgies and black masses until early Saturday morning, the presence in the late 1990s and early 2000s in Tenerife of the satanic sect The Sisters of the Beelzebub Halo raised serious concerns among the State Security Forces in the Canary Islands due to the persuasive power the leaders of this dangerous group had over their followers.
They congregated in a house located in the upper part of the town of Arona, a home that was also usedAs the headquarters of that cult, located specifically at Camino Real number 66, near the Honduras neighbourhood.
The clan was well established on the Levantine coast, in Castellón and Valencia, and the agents also became aware of its establishment in Huelva before founding the Tenerife group in 2000. Worshippers of Astaroth, a demon usually depicted with a crown, holding a viper in his left hand and riding a dog, wolf or dragon, according to mythology, the sect disintegrated when its leader moved elsewhere.
Edelweiss
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Edelweiss was a destructive sect that existed in Spain from 1970 to 1984, founded by Eduardo González Arenas, also known as Eddie and a former Spanish legionnaire, who was repeatedly convicted of crimes against the sexual freedom of minors.
With the support of an association, comprised of up to 400 children aged between 11 and 14, González Arenas used it to commit abuses and corrupt his victims. The sect advocated for homosexual relationships among minors based on a way of living that, according to its founder, existed on a distant planet called Delhaiss, where the sect members would be transported once they had reached a suitable learning level to travel and thus save themselves from a hypothetical and imminent end of the world.
Comprised of women, Sisters of the Beelzebub’s Halo, who met every Friday to engage in orgies and black masses, alarmed the authorities in the 2000s
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In November 1984, after receiving multiple complaints that forced them to relocate their activities, the police proceeded with their arrest in Lisbon along with ten monitors.
From their original location, provided by the parish of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in the Chamartín district, they began to operate in four schools and three Madrid parishes, later expanding to Cáceres, Alicante, Vigo, Badajoz and the Canary Islands, where it is still unknown to this day the extent of their implantation. After the trial, held in 1991 and considered the largest trial for corruption of minors, its founder was sentenced to 168 years in prison, of which he served six under the old penal code. In 1998, he was murdered in Ibiza by one of his followers.
Edelweiss is considered to be one of the most dangerous sects in the history of Spain, mixing concepts such as Nazi ideology, aliens, and sexual abuse.
The Alexander Family
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Influenced by the Austrian professor Jakob Lorber who, in the 19th century at the age of forty, began receiving alleged prophetic messages dictated by the Holy Spirit, the six members of the German Alexander family landed in Tenerife, consisting of Harald, the patriarch; Dagmar, his 41-year-old wife; and their four children: Marina, 18 years old; the twins Sabine and Petra, 16; and Frank, the youngest in the house whom his father, following Lorber’s teachings, considered from birth the messianic prophet destined to save humanity, a responsibility that within his family allowed him to even sexually abuse his sisters.
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When in December 1970 Frank believed he saw a different look from his mother towards him, he decided to grab a wooden coat hanger and beat her until she was unconscious. Then, while his father played the harmonium, he murdered two of his sisters. The police who arrived at the house after the crime described the walls of the house as copiously decorated with images of Christian iconography of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
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