A court has convicted the leader of a doomsday cult for the deaths of 190 children who starved while under his control. He was found guilty alongside 29 co-defendants over the loss of 191 lives inside the sect. Prosecutors said the leader kept followers from eating and told the starving children they would meet Jesus. Children made up the overwhelming majority of the victims. The scale of the deaths has made the verdict one of the most closely followed of its kind. Families of the victims have waited through the trial for the ruling that came this week. The case now moves to a sentencing stage. Courts rarely see charges of this gravity involving so many minors in a single sect.