AKRON, OHIO – The F.B.I has launched an investigation into Ken Hawkins & Really Recovered stemming from an article titled “Church Gone Wrong: Ken Hawkins, Cult Leader of Really Recovered – Sex, Lies, Drugs & Deception“ that was published on Scumbagged on 11/22/2019. In that article, the pastor of Really Recovered, Ken Hawkins, was exposed for allegedly being a narcissistic & manipulative cult leader. One who married underage girls to criminals & drug addicts and presided over numerous overdose deaths and exorcisms. Within days of the article being released federal authorities interviewed past and present members and what surfaced is highly disturbing…
According to the initial investigation Ken Hawkins and Really Recovered didn’t just perform exorcisms on children, but also on their pets. They were also instructed by the CMA (The Christian Missionary Alliance) not to perform marriages and they ignored the instruction and performed another marriage anyways. Minors were also married at the church, which could potentially be viewed as a form of human trafficking (see: It is God’s will: Exploiting religious beliefs as a means of human trafficking) as the marriage(s) was essentially done so using force, coercion and or manipulation.
The investigation also determined that they would convince minors that they were drug addicts and marry them to other addicts. When in reality, the minors were not actually drug addicted and should not have been classified as drug addicts. The minors were found to have only smoked marijuana on a few occasions in some instances as an example. In addition, a police report was provided that documents two overdoses at Really Recovered, one of which resulted in a death.
As of this writing 12 members of the cult have left Really Recovered. Their exodus occurred after the initial story broke which saw an outpouring of family and community support as well as an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The Church & The Move
The image above show’s the Really Recovered church in Akron. The church is moving to nearby Wooster.
The Southside Community Church was initially reported as lending assistance in giving them a house to continue their operations but according to the church’s pastor, this isn’t true.
New information has since surfaced regarding the move to Wooster. Allegedly Really Recovered isn’t moving but is looking to expand and open up an additional church in the city.
COBRA Says: Hopefully after other members in the church going community are made aware of the ongoing investigation into Really Recovered and Ken Hawkins that they will help those embedded within the cult get out and transition into real church like atmospheres based on God and sound practicing principles by Jesus Christ…
The Bottom Line
SCUMBAGGED Tip: Not everything is as it appears and in this day and age you can never take anything for a certainty. Just because you’re attending a church and a pastor is urging you to marry someone, doesn’t mean that you have to. If you think that something might be wrong, then it’s okay to question what you’re being told, taught or asked to do. There is such a thing as “having faith” and there’s nothing wrong with being religious, however, there is something entirely wrong when your pastor performs exorcism’s on your cats or dogs, marries your youngest daughter to an adult addict and silences those who disagree.
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Hey everyone! I’m the pastor of Southside Community Church. We own zero property. We rent a room at the Best Western for our services. I have no idea where you got the information that we were giving space to this organization, but it was news to me. It’s not true, and I’m not even sure how our name got involved.
The article states that you were going to be giving them a house. Perhaps you were going to lend them some form of assistance in an effort to obtain a church in your area? Our documentation shows that after the initial article ran was when SCC determined that they would no longer assist Really Recovered. Please confirm.
Southside has never, ever, given any support, promised any support, or indicated we would support Really Recovered, in any way. I have no idea how we were even brought into this conversation. We are a church in South Wooster, that’s it. I’ve never in my life even met Ken Hawkins. Again, no idea where you got that information, but I’m the lead pastor and everything would go through me. And it was news to me when someone sent me a screenshot of your article. So it is absolutely inaccurate. No love lost, I’m just puzzled how our name got mixed into this.
We apologize if this information was inaccurate and have updated the article to reflect as such.
I really appreciate that! Thank you so kindly for your responsiveness.
Y can’t anyone try without shame. How r the lives of those kids who married? Do u get rich off other people mistakes and misfortune. People really die out here repeatedly every day on there own at least someone’s trying to help never been there but lifes a bitch then u die u won’t be remembered by blogging.
Ken hawkins Had teenagers living in his house they would sleep in his bedroom where him and his wife would be naked in front of them almost daily there’s a lot more going on inside that house Then just a Bible study also Billy McCune Ken’s right hand man who is also paid through the Christian and missionary alliance told one of the other leaders wives if I want you to suck my blank you will suck my blank if I tell you you have to do it then you have to do it that’s just to name a few there’s so much going on behind the scenes of really recovered it’s about time the FBI gets involved
This dude has child predators living with him and his children in Wooster as I type this.Matt Arnold and a dude named shep.Matt Arnold told me he told ken before he moved in with them that he was thinking about putting spyware up in his house to watch his children undressed and ken stI’ll let him move in I was in his program and I will take a lie detector test to prove I am telling the truth
I encourage everyone who was involved with really recovered to come forth and speak up. I have proof on my phone, from my children’s father, admitting that Matt openly confessed to having a thing for child pornography at one time. Really Recovered leads him to believe he has changed in Jesus. They also employ Matt as a house manager from the men’s house. Matt is not only around Meg and Kens children but has been around my children on a regular basis. Up until me finding this out, that is. My children will no longer be going to Really Recovered to visit with their father. Also I asked Meg Hawkins about this situation, and Ken Hawkins took over the conversation and told me that ABSOLUTELY NOT. In capital letters, that Matt is not a child predator. He lied to me. They and my children’s father claim that Matt has been saved. However, I believe this is someone that will always view children sexually and will always battle with child porn. Any licensed therapist, psychiatrist or psychologist would not only warn Matt to stay away from children, but would also be legally responsible for reporting this information. He would then be charged as a child predator. Ken has no business lying about this information. Nor is he anointed to claim such persons is healed.
Also, Ken and Meg are to have said the CPO I have against my children’s father is stupid because it interferes with discussing my children with their father. Ken told me that was out of context. In any context however, how dare you claim a CPO is stupid in any way shape or form. I’ve been pressured to drop the CPO because their father communicating with me is illegal and a slap in the face to Jen and Meg. Yet if you’re a law abiding citizen, per Jesus, then how could you call a CPO stupid for any reason.
And yes. Their lifestyle as predicted, is like a cult. They have a men’s house, a woman’s house, Jen and Megs house plus apartments they are renovating on the property for Really Recovered. They call it “home.”
My children’s father has said some pretty disturbing things to me since being there. I quote, “If anything ever happened to you that would be great because then I could raise the boys in constant discipleship in a closed community and protect them from the ways of the world.”
He’s also told me not to help people that leave really recovered because “Jesus says no.”
In addition, has tried to control my friendships by stating I have nightmares because I communicate with people that don’t believe in “Jesus.””
He his from me that Matt is a pedophile until his text today when confronted.
My children’s father is has been abusive, very manipulative and controlling for the last 10 years. And his behavior existed long before I met him. A life time of behavior for him. Yet Really Recovered has him convinced he’s changed even though his controlling and manipulative and abusive behavior has continued into the present. How can Ken and Meg convince a person like that they’ve changed, to the point of making him a house leader, paying for him to go to ministry school and have him doing baptisms and preaching in less than a year of being there. That just doesn’t seem right.
In my opinion I can see the concern that Ken is manipulative and abusive. My children’s father, despite all the abuse, is not someone to be so easily blinded by others to the point of having our children of being around a pedophile. He fears prison and is made to believe this is the only path for him. I can’t convince him he can pursue the same path elsewhere.
This is all something I have to share with my abuse therapist as well as the courts. I don’t wish to expose or humiliate Matt, but he has no business being around anyone’s children. I think he needs a therapist and a psychologist. Not Really Recovered. I have a right to protect my children. This is something that has made me sick to my stomach and caused me 2 nights of no sleep.
Again, I can not believe my children’s father has been so easily persuaded. Completely out of character for him.
So I really urge any and everyone whom has been in Really Recovered and is a witness to what has gone on to step forward. Something isn’t right. A felon of less than 6 months should not be baptizing and preaching to others. My children’s father has been in Really Recovered for a little over year now. He has no business baptizing or preaching to anyone. Through God anything is possible, but I know despite his progress he has not changed. As he demands I be with him in order to make any sort of change governing Really Recovered. Even is sacrificing his time with his children because I won’t allow our children to be there. They’re playing on his weakness for control and manipulation to build him up. It’s only a matter of time before what happens in the dark is exposed in the light.
My son was in wayne co.jail ken is going after men and woman in wayne co. I thought you may want to know I beleive my son got covid in there for a very good reason the Lord saved him from this evil man my son is now home thank God
I was at this place recently I had been warned not to go there but decided to give it a try those warnings proved true as I had witnessed them operate in an extreme cult like manner I never met Ken he is no longer the pastor there but they still are a cult I called one of the leaders a name and they said j was causing division and slander yet if you leave really recovered churchor or program they will shun you not have you on Facebook or have any type on contact with you there are some that have been there for years claim that Jesus told them to stay there act like you are to have no life outside of this program womens house in wooster evil hateful new house manager has absolutely no idea what she’s doing baptized me went to grab me by my throat I dunked myself they downgrade the kjv bible they love to be in control they allow child predators to stay there its like if you don’t do salvation there way then you not saved they twist the word of God to fit there sin they refuse to speak on details about Ken Hawkins etc many people have left this program if you leave they say you not done with yourself which isn’t true we leave for our own safety not to be brainwashed into this if u leave they walk u off the property it was 29 degrees i had a jacket on no phone and lived an hour away they’ll put u out in the cold