Kabrins

BACKGROUND

Alban was born in Los Angeles and resided in California for most of her life. Novella also resided in California for several years but was most recently a resident of Guatemala. In 2013, Alban began dating Novella, and the following year moved to Guatemala to live with him. Alban suffered from Lyme disease, originally misdiagnosed as Addison’s disease, which caused her constant physical and emotional pain. In December 2014, she returned from Guatemala to California, where she was largely bedridden. In March 2015, Alban discovered a clinic in Germany that might be able to treat her Lyme disease, and scheduled a trip to the clinic for late May 2015. Meanwhile, Novella had traveled from Guatemala to South Africa to obtain medical treatment for “prior psychological trauma” from Rhoda Slabbert-Barron, who offered a “purification program” consisting of colon cleansing, sauna purification and “sacred plant medicine” involving cannabis oil and ibogaine, a dangerous hallucinogen.

2 Before and after undergoing this treatment, Novella communicated with Alban in Los Angeles through telephone calls, emails, and text messages, touting the ibogaine treatment and suggesting that…