Mrs. Shelby (first name unknown) also known as Mother Shelby, is the leader of the Children of the Divine cult. Shelby would brainwash and drug children into being raped by the cult’s adults, including herself, as well as the children raping each other, even when the members were family. Whenever the cult was under legal scrutiny, Shelby would make all the members perjure their statements, so the cult wasn’t broken up.
One of Shelby’s sons, Richard Ranson, killed cult "nanny" Dolores Diamond in an attempt to find and kill Mother Shelby. He then tried to commit suicide. Mother Shelby was on trial for child abuse, but perjury from the cult under oath being accepted from the past threw the case out. It was revealed that she had killed another son, David Shelby, with a drug overdose during his programming, so she was tried for that murder. In spite of arguing she and her cult were being persecuted, comparing herself to "all great spiritual leaders" like Jesus, Muhammad, the Buddha and others, the jury was reviled by Shelby’s actions enough to convict her.
Mother Shelby was found guilty of murder and imprisoned. (L&O: "Sects")