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Richmound residents call for support after cult occupation
Richmound faces $75,000 in legal and remediation costs after a cult occupied a school for nearly two years, prompting RCMP raids and arrests, officials said.
- On Wednesday, Saskatchewan RCMP raided the converted school in the village of Richmound, arresting 16 adults including Romana Didulo during a firearms investigation.
- Didulo's presence, traced to 2023, lasted nearly two years in the converted school, with residents saying harassment led to the administrator's December 2024 resignation and a short-lived replacement.
- Local officials report mounting legal and cleanup bills for the village, with Shauna Sehn warning the financial impact is severe for the village population of about 120 people.
- Richmound's mayor said a council meeting this week will discuss next steps after Sehn and Senger urged provincial support, and Moe responded, 'We can work with the community to make this work because I would agree that the community has unnecessarily, and due to no fault of their own, been through more in the last couple of years than any community needs to be.'
- Provincial comments pointed to revenue-sharing advances as one funding route, confirming Richmound received nearly $130,000 through municipal revenue sharing since 2023.
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