1993

• River Phoenix overdoses.
• The Family's Homes are raided by police in Argentina under various charges of child abuse.
• Over 50 adults are arrested and 140 children taken into custody in France.
• The Family encounters legal problems in Peru.
• The Family encounters legal problems in the USA.

Press coverage

• Los Angeles Times: A True Conversion? — 1993-03-21
• Washington Post: 'The Family' and Final Harvest — 1993-06-02
• Rocky Mountain News: Police Raid Children Of God Homes Sweep Nets 52 Arrest — 1993-06-11
• Press-Enterprise: The Family's values disputed — 1993-07-25
• Washington Post: 30 Members of Children Of God Arrested — 1993-09-02
• Chattanooga Times: Cult crackdown — 1993-09-03
• Daily Mail: House of croquet and free love — 1993-09-03
• Daily Mail: Yard probe into child cult — 1993-09-03
• Evening Standard: We swap wives in the name of Jesus, says cult — 1993-09-03
• New York Times: Argentines Say a Sex Cult Enslaved 268 Children — 1993-09-03
• Los Angeles Times: 58 Americans Held in Argentina Sex-Sect Raid — 1993-09-04
• Toronto Star: 33-year-old Metro woman linked to sex-for-salvation cult — 1993-09-06
• Toronto Star: Metro woman in 'sex cult' probe — 1993-09-06
• Hamilton Spectator: Burlington kin support alleged cult leader — 1993-09-07
• Toronto Star: Sect members deny abuse stories — 1993-09-07
• Toronto Star: Two Canadian cult members arrested in Argentina — 1993-09-07
• Toronto Star: Anti-cult organization blamed for arrests — 1993-09-08
• Toronto Star: Sect members face sex, abduction charges — 1993-09-08
• Hamilton Spectator: Cult includes brother of suspect woman — 1993-09-09
• Hamilton Spectator: Member says he saw child sex abuse inside cult — 1993-09-09
• Hamilton Spectator: We will be completely vindicated, says Susan — 1993-09-09
• Los Angeles Times: Paraguay Police Raid Home Owned by Cult Suspected of Child Abuse — 1993-09-09
• Hamilton Spectator: Cult provided sex services to strangers — 1993-09-10
• Kitchener-Waterloo Record: Defending the Family — 1993-09-10
• Toronto Star: Couple held after bid to visit kids in custody — 1993-09-13
• Toronto Star: 'We've been totally and falsely accused' Family mom insists — 1993-09-15
• Columbus Dispatch: Columbus woman says she escaped cult horrors — 1993-09-16
• Hamilton Spectator: Cult woman's jail treatment 'atrocious' — 1993-09-17
• Macleans: Not a normal family — 1993-09-20
• Toronto Star: Tests disprove sect's family ties — 1993-09-21
• Columbus Dispatch: Woman seeking to get cult-controlled kin out of Argentina — 1993-09-25
• New York Times: 66 U.S. Cultists Still Being Held in Argentina — 1993-09-26
• Columbus Dispatch: Woman says siblings are brainwashed cult victims — 1993-10-05
• Houston Chronicle: Children of God Cult Returns as The Family — 1993-10-10
• Houston Chronicle: Elusive "father' of cult has held a following for 25 years — 1993-10-10
• Philadelphia Inquirer: Church declines to aid sect accused of abusing children — 1993-10-19
• Christianity Today: Sex Abuse Charges Disputed — 1993-10-25
• Sydney Morning Herald: The Family's Planning — 1993-11-06
• Hamilton Spectator: Cult leader fears AIDS scare at jail — 1993-12-11
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The Family: Hippie throwback or dangerous, abusive cult — 1993-12-12
• Hamilton Spectator: Burlington woman free in Argentina cult case — 1993-12-14
• Toronto Star: Argentine court frees Canadians in sex case — 1993-12-14

Television coverage

• CBS News: Dozens of American children picked up during police raid on Argentinian branch of international cult — 1993-09-03
• CNN Headline News: Religious Sect Accused of Child Abuse and Pornography — 1993-09-03
• CNN Larry King Live: 'The Family' - Preachers or Pornographers? — 1993-10-20
• NBC Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric (14:27, 38.3MB) — 1993-09
• King World Productions: American Journal with Nancy Glass (7:33, 23.6MB) — 1993-09

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