NEW YORK—Exclusive interviews from five former school classmates of Keith Raniere—one of them an Epoch Times staff member who sat next to him all through 5th grade and rode the school bus with him for four years—paint a picture of a young boy’s childhood and how he wound up on a path to becoming the founder of an execrable secret society known as NXIVM (pronounced Nex-ee-um.)
Raniere was indicted on sex trafficking charges in April along with Allison Mack, the ‘Smallville’ actress who held the second highest position in NXIVM. Raniere remains behind bars amid an ongoing court trial while Mack was released on a $5 million bond.
