TV actress pleads guilty over ‘sex cult’

American TV actress Allison Mack has pleaded guilty to charges that she was involved in a scheme to turn women into sex slaves for the spiritual leader of a cult-like upstate New York group.

Mack, 36, wept as she admitted her crimes. She apologised to the women who prosecutors say were exploited by Keith Raniere and the purported selfhelp group called NXIVM.

“I believed Keith Raniere’s intentions were to help people and I was wrong,” Ms Mack said.

Mack, best known for her role as a young Superman’s close friend on the series Smallville, will be sentenced on 11 September.