<div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Australian police detained and charged today a well-known cult leader known as “Little Pebble” for allegedly grooming a child while in jail.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>William Costellia Kamm, 73, and his partner Sandra Costellia, 58, were arrested after a six-month investigation, and were refused bail to appear in court tomorrow.</div><div><br></div><div>Costellia Kamm founded the “Order of Saint Charbel” in the rural town of Nowra in the 1980s and preached a doomsday Christian message.</div><div><br></div><div>He previously spent nine years in jail for having sex with two teenage girls before being paroled in November 2014.</div><div><br></div><div>Police said a 19-year-old woman alleged the couple groomed her from the age of six.</div><div><br></div><div>The girl “was advised by the religious leader and his partner that she had been selected to procreate with that religious leader to build a new sect”, said Jayne Doherty, commander of the New South Wales police sex crimes squad.</div><div><br></div><div>“The male accused was an inmate at a correctional centre and utilised various methods, such as phone calls and letters, and used the female accused as a co-accused in that matter to groom that child, and gave her gifts and certain directions in relation to that grooming.”</div><div><br></div><div>Doherty said the allegations were “horrendous”, particularly because they had occurred during the girl’s formative years.</div><div><br></div><div>Costellia Kamm faced several charges related to the alleged grooming, as well as a charge for failing to comply with a supervision order.</div><div><br></div><div>His partner was charged with two counts related to grooming a child.</div><div><br></div><div>The couple was being held at a Sydney police station. - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>