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Order Number	00106539
Title	Delight Jewett case
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HE box 6761
Date	[ca. 1937]
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Historical Data	Delight Jewett was a 17 year-old high school student from Denver. John Hunt was a California millionaire and disciple of Father Divine's International Peace Mission cult in Harlem. Calling himself John the Revelator, he met 17-year-old Delight Jewett in December, 1936, and took her back to California without her parents' consent. Renaming her "Virgin Mary" he began sexual relations with her. Father Divine summoned the pair to New York, separated the couple and reprimanded Hunt. The Jewetts, finding their daughter brainwashed into believing she was literally the Virgin Mary, demanded compensation. After the movement's attorneys refused, the outraged Jewetts offered their story to William Randolph Hearst's New York Evening Journal, a critic of the cult. After a manhunt, Hunt was charged, under the Mann Act, with taking a minor across state lines for "immoral purposes." The White-Slave Traffic Act, also known as the Mann Act, is a United States federal law, passed June 25, 1910. The act makes it a felony to engage in interstate or foreign commerce transport of "any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose." Hunt was convicted and sentenced to three years and adopted a new name, the "Prodigal Son."
Description	Shown is a portrait of Delight Jewett, victim of John Wuest Hunt.
Subject	Jewett, Delight. Jewett, Delight--Trials, litigation, etc. Hunt, John Wuest--Trials, litigation, etc. United States.--Mann Act of 1910--Cases. International Peace Mission. Victims of crimes--California--Los Angeles. Crime--California--Los Angeles. Cult members--California--Los Angeles. Cults--United States. Young women--California--Los Angeles. Trials (Sex crimes)--California--Los Angeles. Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.). Portrait photographs Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs. Herald-Examiner Collection photographs.
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection