PETALING JAYA: Maoist cult leader Aravindan Balakrishnan was found guilty of child cruelty and falsely imprisoning his daughter, The Guardian reported.
The 75-year-old was also convicted of four charges of raping members of his sect, six charges of indecent assault and two charges of assault.
Aravindan led a secretive commune in south London from 1975 to 2013 after emigrating from Singapore.
Judge Deborah Taylor ordered a psychiatric report ahead of sentencing on Jan 29.
The report said that the verdicts follow a two-year police investigation.
It was reported that Aravindan’s daughter spent her whole life imprisoned in the commune until the age of 30.
His daughter, who can’t be named, said she was ruled by her father, who insisted on being called Comrade Bala.
She escaped in October 2013 and told police she was regularly beaten by her father.
It was reported that he lied to her, claiming her father was a dead freedom fighter and that her mother died in childbirth.
Her mother was, however, inside the commune with her until she died in 1997 after falling from a window.
Two women, a British and a Malaysian, had said that Aravindan beat, raped and sexually assaulted them.
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