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Kenyan doomsday cult leader sentenced to 200 years in prison after murders of 190 children

Pastor Paul Mackenzie was sentenced for the murders of 191 people in total at the High Court in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa

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All three outlets focus on Paul Mackenzie’s sentencing and the 191 murder count, with South China Morning Post and Al Jazeera using a 200-year term while the BBC calls it a life sentence. Al Jazeera is the only one to specify 190 children and one adult, while the BBC alone adds the reported instruction that followers starve their children so they could “meet Jesus.” South China Morning Post alone mentions the cult being linked to more than 400 deaths and identifies the court in Mombasa.

Written by Crossfiled from the 7 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.

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