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• Flirty Fishing
  ...ing about FFing in his [[Judgment of Lord Justice Ward|judgment of a child-custody trial]] involving the Family in [[United Kingdom|England]]:
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• David Berg
  *In a [[Judgment of Lord Justice Ward|child-custody case]] in the [[United Kingdom]], Berg's granddaughter [[Merry Berg]] testi ***''second child''
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• Steven Douglas Kelly
  ==Alleged child abuse== ...Justice Ward]], delivered in [[1995]] as the result of a three-year child-custody trial involving The Family in the [[UK]].
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• Generational Revolt by the Adult Children of First-Generation Members of the Children of God/The Family
  ...is essay on a Website, [[MovingOn|MovingOn.org]], founded by another adult child of the first generation, Julia M. ([Julia M.], 2003). As of late February 2 ...the 1980s, the Children of God published information about pregnancies and child-rearing, some of which Berg’s eldest daughter Deborah wrote (see, for exa
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• San Francisco Chronicle: Common Thread of Sexual, Spiritual Abuse Among Cult Defectors Who Killed Themselves
  ...d|child-custody case]] that he and another adult man had been asked by the child-care directors at a Family home in the Dominican Republic in November [[198 ...said the rash of recent suicides in the Family "shows the impact of their child-rearing practices" in the 1970s and 1980s.
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• Merry Jolene Berg
  {{caution child abuse}} ...r judiciary who presided over a three-year [[Judgment of Lord Justice Ward|custody trial]] involving The Family in which Merry served as a star witness.''
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• Jeremy Spencer
  {{Caution child abuse}} ...-abuse-victims-speak-former-fleetwood-mac-guitarists-kickstarter-campaign/ Child Abuse Victims Speak Out Against Former Fleetwood Mac Guitarist’s Kickstar
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• All of These Things Moved Me
  ...te, but what could I show clients when they asked to see some samples? The Child Abuse Statement? The Tribute to [[David Berg]]? I felt so useless. ...ical feminist, married to another woman who just gave birth to their third child!
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• 1992
  *120 children [[Legal Case Australia, 1992|taken into custody]] in [[Australia]]. * [[Sydney Morning Herald: Child Sex Evidence Queried]] — 1992-08-25
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• 1993
  ...police]] in [[Argentina]] under various charges of [[:Category:Child Abuse|child abuse]]. ...Case France, 1993|Over 50 adults are arrested and 140 children taken into custody]] in [[France]].
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• The Last State
  The following is from the [[Judgment of Lord Justice Ward]], from a child-custody case involving The Family in the [[U.K.]] in [[1995]]. [[Merry Berg]] serve ...ere is no more extreme example we could use as an almost, nearly "perfect" child - the "best" we'd ever seen! We hardly could find any fault with her at all
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• J. Gordon Melton
  ...ment of Lord Justice Ward|damning indictment]] of the previous [[:Category:Child Abuse|abuse of children]] in the group. He was also very involved in the cr ...of a toddler was not an "adult-child sex act" and thus does not constitute child sexual abuse:
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• Peter Bevan Riddell
  ...in Tokyo and was able to exercise her parental rights and return with the child to Australia. The Australian government cancelled Peter Riddell's passport ...ml "Doubt"] — Former wife of Peter Riddell recounts her story of the child's abduction
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• Philip Sloan
  {{caution child abuse}} ...ecial_assignment/story.php?id=5270 KFMB-TV: Dulzura Charity Funded Accused Child Molester] &mdash; 2005-02-17</ref>, Sloan started a charity called From the
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• Stuart Harris Baylin
  ...he joined The Family. One of his victims has alleged that Stuart Baylin's child discipline and domestic dispute resolution methods resulted in bleeding, bl ...ated. The two children that were presented to the court were kept in state custody while the authorities searched for their younger brothers.
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• Paul Peloquin
  ==Court documents concerning child abuse== Below are excerpts of the [[Judgment of Lord Justice Ward]], from a child-custody trial in the [[UK]] involving The Family, 1995-05-26.
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• Complete Judgment of Lord Justice Ward
  ...ELF) MAY BE IDENTIFIED BY NAME AND THAT IN PARTICULAR THE ANONYMITY OF THE CHILD, A WARD OF COURT, AND THE MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY MUST BE STRICTLY PRESERVED. ...roceedings or of the address in Leicestershire as being the home where the child is living. In the course of the hearing I received much evidence of and aff
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• Life with Grandpa - the Mene Story
  ...was, in any sense at all, a cure for the emotional problems from which the child was undoubtedly suffering. ...t, that the treatment meted out to MB was totally unacceptable. This was a child caught in the conflict between what she saw and what had happened to her, w
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• San Francisco Chronicle: IRS documents show ties between charity, sex cult
  ...o, were run by one-time cult members who had faced separate allegations of child sexual abuse. ...at least two members of the Family accused of sexual molestation in child custody cases in England and California in the 1990s went on to start charities fun
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• San Francisco Chronicle: Escaping a Free Love Legacy Children of God sect hopes it can overcome sexy image
  ...Alan Ward]] wrote that, at least until 1986, there was widespread child-to-child sex and sexual abuse of minors by adult members of the Children of God. "I ...ned to give his last name. Michael, who got married last March and has one child, said it's up to members of the Family to decide if they want to be polygam
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• San Jose Mercury News: Group, P.A. woman's slaying intertwined
  ...0 countries. But the Washington, D.C.-based group also has been accused of child abuse in a number of countries. ...gentina to Australia have raided the group's homes and taken children into custody.
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• None of These Things Move Me!
  ...eness in various Letters or other publications. (See the 1992 Statement on Child Abuse; “Our Beliefs Concerning the Lord’s Law of Love,” ML #2858:50-5 ...to deliberately hurt young people, and that we were maliciously promoting child abuse and deceiving people. I’m saddened that this subject has come up ag
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• Susan Claire Borowik
  ===Child sexual abuse=== ...Argentine court frees Canadians in sex case|story]] in the Toronto Star, a child that was placed in her care alleged that "Borowick's husband, Jose Manuel S
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• Legal Case U.K., 1992
  [[The Family International]] was involved in a child-custody case in London from February [[1992]] until October [[1995]]. This legal pr
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• Falsely Accused and Jailed in Argentina
  ...were detained. The arrests were the result of false accusations, including child abuse, made against The Family by disgruntled former members who travelled I had already heard that child abuse is considered the worst crime by other prisoners. Many people accused
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• Washington Post: 'The Family' and Final Harvest
  As for "My Little Fish," he says it is a chapter out of a longer book on child care and is meant to get parents to discuss sex openly with their children. Francis denies both charges. "There may have been genuine cases of child sexual abuse in The Family, but any place we have come across them, we have
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• Final Report on the Activities of the Children of God
  ...sake all" doctrine is fear. Virtually every parent testified that the his child appeared "not to be himself", "drugged", "in a trance", or in a "hypnotic s The hatred of parents doctrine sometimes results in a physical assault by a child as testified by a father:
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• Spotlight
  * 26. [[Testimony of a Child Bride & Young Mother]] &mdash; Article by [[Fiona Spencer]], former wife of ...nt and Former Members|member]] and [[:Category:Convicted Abusers|convicted child molester]]
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• More Madness from Mama Maria
  ...horrible sexual practices some day. (For more info about the London child custody case see newsletter #9.) Though not directly related to the subject at hand
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• No Real Changes in the "Children of God" Cult
  ...ed TS Pubs Purge #2. The following is one of the quotes in this purge from child molester Berg they didn't want you to read. "Come Davida, come Honey. You d ...pages, p. 2). Priebe's "Promoting Child Abuse" contains a large number of child adult sex quotes from the Book of Davidito. Berg never to his dying day ren
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• I Almost Didn't Make It
  ...om the beginning and had told us he is a Christian who believes in incest, child-adult sex and prostitution and I had then still joined, I would not be able ...est, parents in the cult got involved sexually with their own children and child-adult sex became a common thing in the group. Children were sexually stimul
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• Children of God. Family of Love. The Family
  ====BERG A CHILD MOLESTER.==== ...services, started. It was during the Family period of the cult that adult-child sex and incest became commonplace. When I left the group in 1979 things wer
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• Techi's Life Story
  ...Like the [[Story of Davidito]], it was intended to be an example of ideal child rearing as practiced in the [[Royal Family]] household. ...om the [[Judgment of Lord Justice Ward]], [[1995]], resulting from a child-custody case in [[England]] involving The Family:
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• Guard Your Children!
  ...part of their campaign against us, but now they're really whipping up this child sex business. ...m want to lynch you on the spot than to bring up child abuse & child sex & child pornography & all that kind of rot!— Which of course we're not guilty of!
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• Judgment of Lord Justice Ward
  ...d were her daughter's membership in The Family and the risk of harm to the child in light of the organization's beliefs and practices. Despite the fact that this was strictly a custody case involving a Family member and her mother, [[Lord Justice Ward|The Rt H
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• Christian Research Journal: Inside the "Heavenly Elite"
  ...t off. Maria encouraged the formation of schools and homes specializing in child care, and was the "brains" behind both the recovery centers for teenagers a ...r some of the cult's more controversial literature (e.g., those portraying child sexual activities) often enter Brazil in the form of microfilm.
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• Toronto Star: Sect members face sex, abduction charges
  protective custody. The children and their mothers are being held in child welfare centers where they 5-year-old child are among those in protective custody.
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• Toronto Star: Metro woman in 'sex cult' probe
  ...nd another Canadian, Jesse Jude Mara, 21, are among the 17 people still in custody following the raids. ...with the materialism of North America. That's what has driven her since a child and what we're hearing about her now just doesn't add up."
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• Toronto Star: 33-year-old Metro woman linked to sex-for-salvation cult
  ...ian police as one of the leaders of a sex-for-salvation cult with links to child prostitution. Also in custody is another Canadian, Jesse Jude Mara, 21. Police refused to say where in Ca
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• Toronto Star: Two Canadian cult members arrested in Argentina
  ...ntre of a probe into the alleged sexual abuse of children were remanded in custody yesterday after being questioned by a federal judge. ...by the group, arresting 30 adults and taking 130 children into protective custody.
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• Toronto Star: Sect members deny abuse stories
  Metro members of a religious sect under investigation for child sex abuse in [[Argentina]] say they are being unjustly crucified for their "If there's even a hint of child abuse you're automatically [[ex-communicated]]," she said.
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• Toronto Star: 'We've been totally and falsely accused' Family mom insists
  [[Susan Claire Borowick]] says she's no child molester. ...rowick, whose 12-year-old son Esteban is one of the children in protective custody.
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• Toronto Star: Argentine court frees Canadians in sex case
  Susan Borowick and Mara were among 90 adults and 137 children taken into custody Sept. 1 after police raided the homes of members of [[The Family]], an offs ...ids after several former members reported alleged instances of [[:Category:Child Abduction|kidnapping]], [[:Category:Physical Abuse|physical]] and [[:Catego
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• Macleans: Not a normal family
  '''Canadians face allegations of child sexual abuse''' ...," said Marquevich who kept 143 children under the age of 18 in protective custody." But apart from some indication of sexual activity among girls as young as
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• Hamilton Spectator: Member says he saw child sex abuse inside cult
  ==Member says he saw child sex abuse inside cult== A cult member for 19 years, Mr. Priebe said the group's child- care handbook promoted oral sex.
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• Hamilton Spectator: Cult provided sex services to strangers
  ...branch of the [[Family of Love]] says Argentine allegations of sodomy and child abuse are false. Ms Streams said she has never seen child abuse in the 17 years she had been a member. The Family claims a membership
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• Hamilton Spectator: Burlington woman free in Argentina cult case
  yesterday after all charges -- including child sex abuse -- against 21 Also taken into custody at the time were 138 children of group members.
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• Chattanooga Times: Cult crackdown
  ...spokesman for the cult at its base in England denied the group engaged in child abuse. ...los Villafuerte. The other 18 adults and the children were placed in court custody and were being examined by psychiatrists and doctors for signs of sexual ab
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• Columbus Dispatch: Columbus woman says she escaped cult horrors
  Authorities also took 268 children into protective custody. ...rness, the woman still blames her parents for much of her misfortune. As a child, there were no bedtime stories, only beatings, she said. ''If you'd cry for
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• Columbus Dispatch: Woman says siblings are brainwashed cult victims
  permission last week to take custody of her brother, Samuel, 17, and her sister, To complete the custody issue, the brother and sister must sign an affidavit
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• Houston Chronicle: Prisoner of a cult
  ...] of prostitution and child pornography. Today, he's a teen-ager in police custody in [[Argentina]], a boy whose future appears as cloudy as his past. ...re arrested in Bahia Blanca, Argentina, on charges of drug trafficking and child abuse. Police also picked up 34 children in the raid.
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• Houston Chronicle: Group opens fund to reunite mother with her kidnapped son
  ...had been found in Bahia Blanca, Argentina, and is being held in protective custody there. ...oup, has legal custody of the youth in this country, but must re-establish custody in Argentina before he can be brought back here.
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• Houston Chronicle: Mother accuses State Dept. of hindering rescue of teen
  ...and several other adult members of the cult on drug charges and charges of child abuse and picked up a number of children, including Shaqued. ...ion of its female members for funds and advocates incest with children and child pornography.
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• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Alpharetta Mom Working to Rescue Children From Sex Cult in Thailand
  ...erseas, even to recover children taken by a parent who does not have legal custody. After receiving the call from the GBI this year, Mrs. Eckhardt obtained a custody order for the children, whom she asked not be identified, and spoke to [[Vi
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• Tribunal de Menores de Mercedes - Cause number 32.202
  ...r and her brother-in-law as her representatives and granted them temporary custody for the express purpose of returning her children to the United States. Th ...ed to have once had written permission from Ruth Frouman to have temporary custody of Emmanuel David Frouman but said she had lost all copies of the alleged d
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• Richard Peyer vs Family of Love et. al. 1CC00-0-063603
  ...In [[1980]], she filed for divorce from [[Brian Pickus]] and was granted custody of all her children. According to police reports, filings in civil and crim [[Category:Child Abduction]]
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• Family Care Foundation: A Front Group for The Family Cult
  ...ited Kingdom|England]] during the [[1990s|nineties]] Judge Ward found that child adult sex was widespread in the group. His conclusion was based on testimon The most controversial material on child/adult sex published by the COG, "[[Story of Davidito|The Story of Davidito]
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• Candy Ann Pickus, et. al. v. Phyllis Gotwalt et. al. 1CC00-0-072110
  ...In [[1980]], she filed for divorce from [[Brian Pickus]] and was granted custody of all her children. On September 1, 1980, Brian Edward Pickus, four hired [[Category:Child Abduction]]
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• Vivian Shillander
  ...INT] <small>(2 pages, 381k)</small> &ndash; 1987-11-16 </ref> Their first child was born in November [[1974]] and they had four more children together, the ...0005.pdf PLAINTIFF'S AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OF EX PARTE MOTION FOR TEMPORARY CUSTODY] <small>(17 pages, 2.5M)</small> &ndash; 1987-11-16
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• Legal Case Argentina, 1993
  ...Buenos Aires are raided by police. 142 children are taken into protective custody and more than 80 adults are arrested. ...Robert Marquevich orders the preventive detention of 18 adults already in custody. Later, 3 additional persons were added to the list of those charged in the
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• New York Times: Argentines Say a Sex Cult Enslaved 268 Children
  ...60 [[United States]] citizen were among the children and adult taken into custody, the judge said. ...rosecutor, Carlos Villafuerte, had revised the number of children in court custody downward, to 160, but Judge Marquevich said the number was 268.
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• Hollywood Reporter: HBO Documentary Focuses on Cult Kids
  ...s]]. By [[1981]], it boasted more than 2,000 homes in 76 countries. Former child members include actors [[Joaquin Phoenix]], his late brother [[River Phoeni ...uced by Diane Farr (the WB's "Like Family") and [[Noah Thomson]], a former child member who will make his directing debut on the project and appear on camer
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• The Family's response to the June 2005 Rolling Stone article
  ...ildren whether young children or teenage children. I have no evidence that child sex abuse is presently prevalent any more within The Family than outside it
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• Rolling Stone: The Life and Death of the Chosen One
  ...founder of the Children of God; a scheming, deluded mother; and a troubled child who did not want to fulfill his appointed role as savior, the young man who ...nd Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, Zerby had grown up in a strict household, the child of a Presbyterian minister. "Her parents were disciplinarians," an acquaint
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• Los Angeles Times: 58 Americans Held in Argentina Sex-Sect Raid
  [[Argentina|Argentine]] officials, horrified by emerging signs of a global child-sex network, said Friday they had counted 58 Americans and people of 18 oth ...nd the Argentine prosecutor's office declined to identify those taken into custody or to say whether any were from California.
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• Birmingham News: New Home, Old Questions Controversies of Past Follow Communal Group
  ...lia]], [[Spain]], [[France]] and [[Argentina]], [[Norway]] and [[Canada]], child welfare agencies have investigated the Family and often taken away children ...he judge investigating whether the Family's lifestyle is unhealthy for the child. A decision is expected in two weeks, Melton said.
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• People Magazine: Was the Family Doing God's Work - Or Unspeakable Harm?
  ...a Mattery, 54, was in the cult for five years but left when his wife had a child with his brother. “I didn’t believe in wife swapping,” he says, “or ...tice Ward|British judge]] presiding over a [[Judgment of Lord Justice Ward|custody battle]] involving a group member concluded that there had been “widespre
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• Brian Edward Pickus
  ...t Spain. After I got back to Honolulu, I filed for divorce and was granted custody of all the children."'' ...d Brian Pickus to bring the two children to visit her and then took lawful custody of the children as granted by the court handling her divorce case. Accordin
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• Sydney Morning Herald: The Family v. The Rock
  ...es of any kind. The police have decided the Cobham hearing is now simply a child-care case. In custody at Brougham, Linwood and Ormond detention centres, the children found their
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• The Age: Moses David's children
  ...een involved in excommunicating people from the group who have been in any child abuse," he said. He would not elaborate on what form this abuse had taken. ...between adults and children. She was giving evidence during a long-running custody battle.
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• IRE Journal: Records, sources help show link between charity, religious sect
  ...Myung Moon, then a little-known Korean sect leader. As the first "blessed child" born in the West, this cute, curly-haired blonde was supposed to embody Mo ...and current spiritual leader of the Family. Rodriguez, once anointed as a child prophet in his mother's church, shot himself in the head after murdering [[
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• Cornerstone Magazine: The Family and the Truth
  ...id, “Yep, that’s us, or at least who we were.” In some ways, I am a child of the 60's Jesus Revolution myself. I had known of The Children of God, a ...me. She spoke about her rather extensive experience of sexual abuse as a child, the wide awareness of “every Family kid” on this issue, and the genera
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• Nova Religio Book Review: Life in The Family: An Oral History of the Children of God
  ...nce some academics who have attempted to downplay the occurrences of adult/child sex in this group, Chancellor still neglects to discuss the issue of restit ..., in chapter 7 and elsewhere, Chancellor's own study documented widespread child sexual abuse, prostitution, infections from [[Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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• Lawrence Lilliston
  ...it his conclusions as testimony in a [[Judgment of Lord Justice Ward|child custody case]] involving The Family in the [[U.K.]], presiding judge [[Lord Justice
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• CBS News: Dozens of American children picked up during police raid on Argentinian branch of international cult
  ...y the group is the offshoot of a [[cult]] in California and the issue is [[child abuse]]. Bill Lagattuta reports. ...milar raids recently, alleging the self-styled religious group is a global child sex network. Former members showed CBS News home videos, claiming to prove
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• CNN Headline News: Religious Sect Accused of Child Abuse and Pornography
  ==Religious Sect Accused of Child Abuse and Pornography== ...ting pornographic videotapes in their homes. Thirteen people released from custody today denied any wrong-doing. They were among 30 adults and more than 200 c
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• Geraldo Rivera: Former cultists comment on requirements made of them by their leaders
  '''RIVERA:''' Beth and Tim want very much to have a child, custody, but he had visitation. They just didn't come
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• South China Morning Post: More accusations against Children of God
  ...from the world's press. His sister maintains she was sexually abused as a child for years. ...pherd]]" to a sect known as "The Family", shrugs off allegations of mixing child sex and religion, claiming it is just [[persecution]].
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• London Times: 'After my mother, all I need is one bullet for myself'
  ===The Family cult used free love as a mask for child abuse, accusers claim. So was it so strange that a former member turned kil “He was constantly sexually abused as a child but he rarely complained,” says Elixcia. “Because of his central role i
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• Globe and Mail: Transatlantic custody battle continues
  ==Transatlantic custody battle continues== VANCOUVER (CP) - The mother of two children involved in a transatlantic custody battle says [[Children of God]] cultists are not the monsters her parents a
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• Globe and Mail: B.C. officials seize 13 children after claim that one molested
  ...children were seized after complaints by a 24-year-old man embroiled in a custody battle over his 3-year-old son. ...ators to corroborate the father's most recent complaints by talking to the child were inconclusive. Police consulted Crown lawyers and decided there was ins
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• Houston Chronicle: Members of sect say they're being persecuted
  ...sexual abuse to racketeering, [[Flirty Fishing|prostitution]], [[:Category:Child Abduction|kidnapping]] and concealing of children, court officials said. The judge also took 68 adults and 137 children of 19 nationalities into custody after the raids. Minors are being tested for physical and psychological dam
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• Houston Press: Family Ties
  ...uez's childhood sexual abuse was documented in a book intended as a Family child-rearing manual (see "'''[[Houston Press: Bedtime Stories|Bedtime Stories]]' ...nbelievable were it not for a [[Judgment of Lord Justice Ward|1995 British custody case]] that exposed thousands of internal Family memos.
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• Sarah Berg
  A year later, after the birth of her first child, Nathan, David Berg wanted to have intercourse with her stating: I see you Just two weeks prior to the birth of her second child (her third pregnancy) some COG members wanted to know how to have intercour
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• Order of Judge Campora - 1993-06-28
  ...[http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/crc.htm Convention On The Rights of The Child]</ref>), Law 23054<ref name="ley23054">[http://www.rimaweb.com.ar/biblio_le ...icle states that: "1. States Parties undertake to respect the right of the child to preserve his or her identity, including nationality, name and family rel
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• Roberto José Marquevich
  ...sé María Baamonde]], the actual number of children taken into protective custody was 143 and not 268 as initially reported; the confusion apparently resulte *[[Toronto Star: Couple held after bid to visit kids in custody]] &mdash; 1993-09-13
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• Let Our Children Go!
  I'll call her Mrs. Betty Spahn. She had, as she put it, lost a child to the Children of God and, like Mrs. Jackson, had been unable to get help ...families with children in the cult. Their stories were all identical: the child vanished without a trace, surfaced a week later with a phone call in which
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• Jim LaMattery
  ...[[1980]]-[[1981|81]] divorce/custody documents related to the [[:Category:Child Abduction|abduction]] of LaMattery's children by his ex-wife, [[Donna Jean
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• Sunday Telegraph Magazine: Family Values
  '''Child abuse, prostitution, promiscuity. That's all in the past for the shiny, hap ...nown as the [[children of God]], or CoG). Although he settled the issue of custody, the judge's comments only fanned the flames of controversy surrounding the
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• How We Fought For Our Children!
  Years ago I lost my children in a custody suit, but I know if I had read "Fight For Your Children", it really would'v [[Category:Child Abduction]]
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• GN 337
  GBY! From re-reading different [[The Family|Family]] accounts of [[:Category:Child Abduction|kidnapping]] & [[deprogramming]] attempts, a number of similar ci ...amily, "evidence" which the courts must have in order to grant the ex-mate custody papers so they can come & rip off your children.
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• Steven Riddell Abduction Case
  ...rder further specified that Mr. Riddell was to "have no access to the said child of the marriage" and ordered that Steven be immediately returned to his mot [[Category:Child Abduction]]
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• ABC News 20/20: To Bring Her Children Home
  ...s constantly invoke the name of Jesus, but in private, they reportedly see child sex and [[Berg on Incest|incest]] as part of their gospel. ...arry Pressler. What at first had the sound of a [[:Category:Child Custody|custody]] battle became much more than who gets the children. Possibly at stake we
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• NBC Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric
  ...allegations of [[Flirty Fishing|prostitution]] and [[:Category:Child Abuse|child abuse]]. ...es bear witness to what Abigail and Merry were talking about--child abuse, child sex, and using adult female members of the Children of God as sexual lures
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• The Love Prophet and the Children of God
  ''(Video of two pre-pubescent [[Child pornography|female children doing pornographic strip-tease dances for the c ''(Video of third pre-pubescent female child dancing for the camera)''
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• 1998 Charter Appendix B: Agreement of Permanent Separation and Guardianship of Children
  [[Category:Child Custody]]
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• Associated Press: FBI says child recovered from care of religious group, given to custodian
  ==FBI says child recovered from care of religious group, given to custodian== ...father was found in North Carolina and delivered to an aunt who has legal custody, the [[FBI]] said Tuesday.
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• Sydney Morning Herald: Bid To Put 66 Children In Care
  ...using range from physical abuse, education, specific needs for a disabled child, emotional abuse to a question of responsibility for the children. A total of 142 children, aged between 2 and 16, were taken into custody after dawn raids on homes in Sydney, Melbourne and country Victoria.
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• Sydney Morning Herald: Dept's Sect Case 'Eroded' By Errors
  ...yesterday that discrepancies in the accuracy of an interview with a young child eroded confidence in the interviewer. ...t very helpful" to her, although she stressed "it hasn't made me think the child has not been abused".
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• Sydney Morning Herald: Sect Warns Of $10M Damages Claim Over Raids
  Significantly, it now says that if the court determines a child is in need of care, it does not necessarily result in the placement of chil ...tions. These included undertakings by the parents and the children; giving custody to another person but allowing the children to stay with the parents; or su
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