BOYS as young as six years old were being trained to become part of the private army of a cult leader in Surigao del Norte which he called "Soldiers of God."

Witnesses on Thursday told senators that the cult leader, identified as certain Jey Rence Quilario, alias "Senior Agila," also conducted forced child marriages.

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