Cult leader found guilty of murdering 190 children in Kenya. Self-proclaimed preacher Paul Mackenzie and 28 associates have been found guilty of murdering 190 children and one adult as part of a starvation cult in Kenya. He incited his followers to starve themselves to death in order to "meet Jesus." The children mostly died from starvation, but also from "asphyxia, neck compression and traumatic head injury", prosecutors said.