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  • Main Page
    ...rg]]''' — Granddaughter of [[David Berg]] who has spoken out against abuse **[[:Category:Abuse|Abuse]]
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  • David Berg
    ==Alleged sexual abuse== *In a [[Judgment of Lord Justice Ward|child-custody case]] in the [[United Kingdom]], Berg's granddaughter [[Merry Berg
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  • Karen Zerby
    ...tains explicit text and images, and contains graphic descriptions of child abuse that may be disturbing for some viewers.</div> ==Alleged child sexual abuse==
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  • Steven Douglas Kelly
    ==Alleged child abuse== ...Family leaders]] and [[World Services]] staff members. She received severe abuse from other members of the Berg and Zerby entourage, who tied her to her bed
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  • Houston Chronicle: Children of God Cult Returns as The Family
    ...ded by angry parents whose teen-agers had joined the cult, accused Berg of child molesting, fraud and several other crimes. He was not indicted. ...adults should be tried on charges ranging from child abuse to [[:Category:Child Abduction|kidnapping of children]]. Marquevich’s order has been appealed
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  • MovingOn
    ...victims of abuse one way or another because of their upbringing, and every child should be brought up in the System, rigidly conforming to its standards and
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  • Ricky Rodriguez
    ...nt towards Berg and Zerby because of the sexual abuse he had suffered as a child due to their policies and because of the unnatural way in which he was rais ...t behind them. However, Rick became increasingly consumed by rage over the abuse that he and many hundreds of other children raised in The Family had suffer
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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 ...orporal punishment, which sometimes crossed over into torture and physical abuse, against them in an attempt to elicit compliance among their children to th
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  • Open Letter to President and Mrs. Clinton on "The Family Singers"
    ...to secure visas for Children of God devotees. Kristina suffered appalling abuse under the cult's strictly disciplinarian regime). (Lynne Wallis, "Cult Recr Child sexual abuse, including incest, has been the biggest concern of outside observers. The f
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  • Angela Smith's death
    ...August, [[2004]], below. Angela Smith had played a limited role in sexual abuse he suffered in his childhood. ...to do what I know now is necessary. Something has to be done to stop these child molesters, and it would be nice to find some people who think the same way.
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  • San Francisco Chronicle: Common Thread of Sexual, Spiritual Abuse Among Cult Defectors Who Killed Themselves
    ===Common thread of sexual, spiritual abuse among cult defectors who killed themselves=== ...dead say the suicides are linked to years of sexual, spiritual or physical abuse they experienced growing up in one of the most secretive sects of the [[197
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  • Merry Jolene Berg
    {{caution child abuse}} ...he underwent severe physical, sexual, and psychological abuse. Some of the abuse was documented and published for all cult members in the internal publicati
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  • Merry's Story
    ...ter was born into the [[Children of God]], and suffered severe [[:Category:Abuse|abuses]] as a young teenager. Today she is happy and healthy in her new lif ...m in my heart for God and longed to know Him, to be assured that I was His child. After seeking God desperately during this period of isolation, I began to
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  • Jeremy Spencer
    {{Caution child abuse}} ...-victims-speak-former-fleetwood-mac-guitarists-kickstarter-campaign/ Child Abuse Victims Speak Out Against Former Fleetwood Mac Guitarist’s Kickstarter Ca
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  • Berg on Incest
    ...sins is with children. "How could you besmirch & defile & violate your own child?&mdash;An under-age minor!" ...as the burden to do this. What do you, Dad, think of this kind of mother & child relationship? &mdash;Sammy, Europe
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  • All of These Things Moved Me
    ...t 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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  • Story of Davidito
    ...to Family [[Homes]] around the world. It was intended to be an example of child rearing. The early years of the [[second generation]] were influenced by th ...nd children’s workers will be waiting to hear about what we did with our child.
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  • 1992
    * [[Sydney Morning Herald: Sex Abuse Was Subtle, Court Told]] &mdash; 1992-08-04 * [[Sydney Morning Herald: Child Sex Evidence Queried]] &mdash; 1992-08-25
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  • The Family International
    ...paragraphs 60-80.</ref>. The Family requires individuals who report child abuse to a law enforcement agency or pursue legal action against an alleged abuse
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  • 2005
    ...okesperson Claire Borowik regarding Ricky's death|states]] that the sexual abuse of children was made an excommunicable offense in [[1986]]. ...es/2/27/TFI_Statement_-_Deaths_Rodriguez_Smith.pdf states] that the sexual abuse of children was made an excommunicable offense in [[1988]].
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  • Apostate
    * ''...enemies drumming up the false charge of "child abuse"...''
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  • Berg on Pedophilia
    ...ns|Family publications]] where Berg dealt specifically with pedophilia and child sex. ===Child Brides===
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  • 1993
    ...]] in [[Argentina]] under various charges of [[:Category:Child Abuse|child abuse]]. * [[The Independent: Cult denies child sex abuse]] &mdash; 1993-07-02
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  • No Regrets
    ==CHILD ABUSE== ...rs. I eventually became the WS in-house specialist, writing the 1992 Child Abuse Statement, and assisting with other pubs on the subject. For several years
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  • Watchman's Story
    ...mless little bands of very lost people who were indulging in heavy alcohol abuse as well as totally promiscuous sexual activities. I too drifted for a while ...s and adults are sent and subjected to intense emotional and psychological abuse in order to badger them into a place of total submission. In my case, by th
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  • The Cult Killed Rick!
    ...it was a total miracle that somebody that had gone through the incredible abuse that Rick had gone through, was in any sense a sane and rational and functi ...ng up to these people, because they have been getting away with incredible abuse too long. Rick was successful in forcing the cult to let his son Romeo visi
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  • What Happened to Rick Dupuy/Watchman?
    Besides MO's other problems with alcoholism child abuse, channeling demons, false prophecies and so forth, he was also an EXTREME C
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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 ...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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  • San Francisco Chronicle: Hewlett grant went to cult-linked charity
    Rudow said the stories of child abuse in the Family in the 1970s and 1980s were being spread by "apostates" who w ...s mother and other sect leaders, whom Rodriguez blamed for years of sexual abuse that he and other second-generation members suffered while growing up in th
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  • J. Gordon Melton
    ...Justice Ward|damning indictment]] of the previous [[:Category:Child Abuse|abuse of children]] in the group. He was also very involved in the creation of Th ...was not an "adult-child sex act" and thus does not constitute child sexual abuse:
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  • Hugo Westphal
    {{Caution child abuse}} ==Alleged child abuse==
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  • 1990
    ...990|arrested]] in [[Spain]] under charges of [[:Category:Child Abuse|child abuse]]. * [[Houston Chronicle: A Houston woman holds hope for child in cult]] &mdash; 1990-02-04
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  • Ricky Rodriguez Video Transcript
    ...mes than I did- because its not about that. There's so many other kinds of abuse that went on, that to some of us were just as bad, some of us, to some of u ...ou just get sick and fucking tired. Now they weren't really executing, um, child abusers. They were executing, um, drug dealers. Um, murderers. Mafia. All t
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  • Samuel Charles Perfilio
    ...rl he lived with in the [[Philippines|Philippines]], who gave birth to his child in [[1987|1987]] at the age of 15. The girl's stepmother was Perfilio's par
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  • Victor Landivar Trigoso
    Numerous former members have alleged an extensive history of child abuse by Trigoso. Amongst other crimes, it is alleged that he has sexually assaul ...the situation and CC’d to the Combined Federal Campaign and a number of child protection agencies. Within hours, Montgomery had all information about Tri
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  • Sara Kelley
    ...at it be used as a childcare manual, setting the example on how to raise a child. It was sent to communes across the cult, worldwide. ...ez]] to from birth. This book had a direct impact on the widespread sexual abuse that followed within the cult for a number of years.
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  • Philip Sloan
    {{caution child abuse}} ...for him rather than expelling him from the organization and reporting the abuse to law enforcement authorities.
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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 ...dents occurred. At least two of his victims reported specific incidents of abuse to top leaders of The Family International and their staff on questionaires
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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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  • Summit '93 Mama Jewels
    ...o great, that by comparison to what goes on in the System, it still wasn't abuse. ''&mdash;Karen Zerby, Summit '93 Mama Jewels #2, pg.19, 1992''</div>
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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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  • 1999
    * [[The Australian: Child's Play - Judge Rules Sect Raid Trespass]] &mdash; 1999-04-01 * [[The Mirror: Ex-member of Children of God Details Childhood Abuse]] &mdash; 1999-05-11
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  • Life with Grandpa - the Mene Story
    ...his little handyman jobs, rant and rave about the "Damn Blacks and Jews", abuse little girls, and not have any challenges to his authority, or hear of any ...ara in any way for all the evil and perverted physical, mental, and sexual abuse she is guilty of, but it’s important to realize that for the most part, s
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  • San Francisco Chronicle: Murder-suicide case in desert evangelical sex cult
    ...dito" when he was growing up in the Children of God, had been groomed as a child to be the heir apparent of the sect, founded in the late 1960s by the late "He and others from that generation have never seen justice from all the abuse they suffered."
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  • Tucson Citizen: Murder suspect, a suicide, raised by cult to lead
    What he did was likely an act of vengeance for abuse he received as a child, Jones said. "Ricky went through a tremendous amount of physical and sexual abuse as a child," Kent said.
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  • San Francisco Chronicle: Rage turns to vengeance against "Family"
    ===Anguished ex-cult member decried years of abuse before killing 'molester,' himself=== ...ormer Family members, he proclaimed: "Something has to be done about these child molesters."
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  • San Francisco Chronicle: Ex-sect members fear new violence
    ...young people who say they suffered years of physical, sexual and spiritual abuse growing up in the sect say that the latest deaths are part of a series of s ...manded that their parents and movement leaders take responsibility for the abuse -- gathered in a hotel ballroom in San Diego on Saturday night to pay tribu
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  • San Francisco Chronicle: On tape, son of 'prophet' declares war on mother
    ...her and her current husband, whom he blames for allowing widespread sexual abuse against him and other children who grew up in the cult. ...generation members trying to hold sect leaders responsible for the alleged abuse.
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  • San Francisco Chronicle: IRS documents show ties between charity, sex cult
    ...a charitable foundation if they knew that its leaders endorsed the sexual abuse of minors and religious prostitution," said Penn, who helped start the foun ...y one-time cult members who had faced separate allegations of child sexual abuse.
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  • Los Angeles Times: Fringe Group at Center of Deaths
    ...er a fringe religious group renounced practices that included child sexual abuse and incest, a murder-suicide carried out in two states has brought the grou ...d accusations from former group members who say that a childhood of sexual abuse growing up in the commune drove Rodriguez to murder and suicide.
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  • Los Angeles Times: Tragic Legacies of a Sex-Based Religion: Murder and Suicide
    ...They didn't just change his diapers. They lay naked in bed with the naked child, fondling him and urging him to fondle them. It became, in fact, the group's bible of child rearing.
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  • New York Times: Murder and Suicide Reviving Claims of Child Abuse in Cult
    ==Murder and Suicide Reviving Claims of Child Abuse in Cult== ...accusations by former members about routine physical, emotional and sexual abuse that they say they experienced as children.
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  • London Times: Revenge of a son on cult of free love
    ...wn as The Family International, and revived allegations of rape and sexual abuse by former members. Berg was an advocate of free love who sanctioned child abuse and incest. Former members describe him as a paedophile who devised a relig
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  • San Francisco Chronicle: Escaping a Free Love Legacy Children of God sect hopes it can overcome sexy image
    ...t, 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 am completely satisfi ...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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  • FBI
    Affidavits regarding abuse in [[The Family]] may be submitted to the FBI at the address below. * [[Associated Press: FBI says child recovered from care of religious group, given to custodian]] &mdash; 2000-0
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  • Safe Passage Foundation
    ...e that minors within cults or high demand organizations are protected from abuse and exploitation and that their rights are respected and protected''," that
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  • San Francisco Chronicle: Mixed Memories of 'The Family' Sex: Ex-member believed abuse 'normal'
    ===Ex-member believed abuse ‘normal’=== ...ghly sexualized culture that encouraged widespread child [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]] during the [[1970s]] and [[1980s]].
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  • Edward Priebe
    ...unit. These videos later became evidence of [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|child abuse]] in court cases (see [[:Category:Legal Action]]). *[[Hamilton Spectator: Member says he saw child sex abuse inside cult]] &mdash; 1993-09-09
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  • Child Abuse?!
    ...[https://media.xfamily.org/docs/fam/pr/child-abuse-tract-1989-03.pdf Child Abuse?! -An Official Statement from the Founders of the Children of God!] <small>
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  • Our Replies To Allegations Of Child Abuse
    ...allegations-of-child-abuse-1992-06.pdf Our Replies To Allegations of Child Abuse] <small>(PDF Scan, 10 pages, 1.3MB)</small> &mdash; [[1992]]-06 ==Our Replies To Allegations of Child Abuse==
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  • Pubs Purge Advisory, June 1991
    ...r enemies have been drumming up against us is that we are guilty of "child abuse," some of these raids have actually resulted in our precious children being ...substantiate their very false and malicious accusations against us that we abuse our own dear children! So for this reason, we are now initiating an extensi
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  • Daily Telegraph: They told us we might have to die
    ...lled like soldiers and, more rarely, there have been allegations of sexual abuse. ...movement's claim that the Children of God was effectively a conspiracy to abuse children. Their most vivid recollections of their time together in the Fami
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  • San Jose Mercury News: Group, P.A. woman's slaying intertwined
    '''Killer, Son of Sect's Leader, Blamed it for Childhood Abuse''' ...tries. But the Washington, D.C.-based group also has been accused of child abuse in a number of countries.
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  • The Observer, UK: Sex cult's messiah turns killer
    ...revenge he plotted against members he claimed had sexually abused him as a child. ...Martin was pleased as she had often urged him to record his experiences of abuse. But by the time the it arrived in the post Rodriguez was already dead.
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  • Evening Standard: The Little Girl Seduced in the Name of God
    ...her 30 years as a member, she had never personally encountered any sexual abuse of children. ...is more," she says presently, speaking softly. "So much more. This sexual abuse is not just in the past, as my mother tells journalists - as my mother made
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  • Irish Times: Helping to Take the Cult Out of the Man
    ...illion says he was not sexually abused but was privy to evidence that such abuse did occur. At the age of 12 his life took a turn for the worse. ...," he says. "We studied the Bible every day and were subjected to a lot of abuse and brainwashing."
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  • None of These Things Move Me!
    32. This isn’t hype or coercion or spiritual abuse. Nor do I have to defend my position or our doctrines as if I’m on trial 64. ACCUSATION: It took Maria and Peter years to admit the obvious; sexual abuse of minors had occurred in the Family, MO was directly responsible for it, a
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  • Susan Claire Borowik
    ===Child sexual abuse=== ...her husband allegedly raped on her 13th birthday and continued to sexually abuse thereafter left the group "because she did not agree with the restrictions
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  • Falsely Accused and Jailed in Argentina
    ...etained. The arrests were the result of false accusations, including child abuse, made against The Family by disgruntled former members who travelled to Arg ...s resolution, which mostly contained a summary of the so-called victims of abuse, Abigail B.'s declaration, and reports of supposed psychological disturbanc
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  • Washington Post: 'The Family' and Final Harvest
    ...ading members after hearing unspecified "reports of serious misconduct and abuse of their positions." He renamed his followers The Family of Love. 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.
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  • 1989
    ...paragraph 14.</ref> The policy did not address other types of child sexual abuse and was not applied retroactively to those who sexually abused children bef
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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
    ...Berg]]''' &mdash; Granddaughter of [[David Berg]] who has spoken out about abuse * 26. [[Testimony of a Child Bride & Young Mother]] &mdash; Article by [[Fiona Spencer]], former wife of
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  • Deceivers yet true
    ...ment and social workers about allegations of [[:Category:Child Abuse|child abuse]] within the group. Among other dramatized Bible stories, ''Protecting Baby
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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. ...ted from 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. ...ided by [[Kim Speller]], who represented the respondent (the mother of the child referred to in the judgment as S. or ST) throughout the case, it appears th
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  • Purge
    ...t|incest]], [[:Category:Child Abuse|child abuse]] and [[:Category:Physical Abuse|neglect]], [[Berg and Anti-Semitism|anti-Semitism]], and other controversia
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  • Choices and Consequences, Part 1
    ...u know is right. We all know it's against God's laws for Family members to abuse their bodies through overdrinking and taking drugs. But the problem is that ...nd so it wouldn't take all that much for her to be "overdrinking." Alcohol abuse--besides being harmful for your body, and hurtful to your loved ones when y
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  • The Professionals
    ...train, body-build, run, and keep in shape. You don't smoke, over-drink, or abuse your body‚ because if you do, it affects your ability to play. You have t ...gan to bleed. I don't know precisely what the legal definition of “child abuse” is in your country, but in most places, if you do that, you get locked u
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  • Macau Victor Camps
    Notorious abuse of second generation teenagers took place in Macau, as teenagers such as [[ ...emselves but they were usually severely beaten for saying so. The youngest child I met at the camp was 11. He had tried to jump off the roof of his commune
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  • Faith Berg
    ==Alleged child sexual abuse== ...charged with or convicted of any criminal offense related to child sexual abuse and thus is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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  • Marie Claire: "Killing Myself is the Only Way Out of the Cult"
    ...use to eradicate a childhood marred by sexual, physical and psychological abuse. ...tal evangelists, Berg was a nymphomaniac who had been sexually abused as a child. He preached the virtues of free-for-all sex, including [[Berg on Pedophili
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  • Toronto Star: Sect members face sex, abduction charges
    reported alleged incidents of kidnapping, physical and sexual abuse of children, incest and Borowick "was responsible for the sexual abuse of children, 12 and 13 years old," Abigail told the
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  • Toronto Star: Metro woman in 'sex cult' probe
    ...uenos Aires in connection with a religious cult involved in alleged sexual abuse of children fears for her well-being. ...cult members reported alleged incidents of kidnapping, physical and sexual abuse of children, incest and prostitution.
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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. ...old girl, are being held with several dozen members of the cult in various child welfare institutions across this South American city.
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  • Toronto Star: Two Canadian cult members arrested in Argentina
    ...s of a religious [[cult]] at the centre of a probe into the alleged sexual abuse of children were remanded in custody yesterday after being questioned by a ...a communal group embroiled in allegations of promiscuity, including sexual abuse of children and prostitution.
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  • Hamilton Spectator: Burlington kin support alleged cult leader
    ...res court to be questioned about leading a religious cult said to sexually abuse children. ..., was involved in the alleged incidents of kidnapping, physical and sexual abuse of children, incest and prostitution.
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  • Toronto Star: Sect members deny abuse stories
    ==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 beliefs.
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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. ...als, who claim nine of the children seized in raids showed signs of sexual abuse.
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  • Toronto Star: Argentine court frees Canadians in sex case
    ...rgentine appeals court after being cleared of allegations involving sexual abuse of children. ...l Abuse|physical]] and [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual]] [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]] of children, [[:Category:Incest|incest]] and [[Flirty Fishing|prostitutio
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  • Los Angeles Times: A True Conversion?
    ...pel of free love outraged critics. Under fire from deprogrammers and child-abuse authorities, the cult virtually disappeared. It's back-calling itself "[[Th ...s authorities in several countries unsuccessfully leveled charges of child abuse.
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  • Macleans: Not a normal family
    '''Canadians face allegations of child sexual abuse''' ...rius Hopper, 20, an American in Buenos Aires, "and I nver saw any signs of abuse."
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  • Toronto Star: Anti-cult organization blamed for arrests
    ...authorities were "provoked" by an anti-cult organization to lay child sex abuse charges against the [[Family of Love]], say Metro members of the sect. The release said no sexual abuse of children has been found in 10 previous Argentine investigations in which
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  • Hamilton Spectator: Cult includes brother of suspect woman
    ...an investigation by Argentine authorities into allegations of child sexual abuse by members of the cult. His family is convinced Grant would not have joined the group if abuse was going on, Steve said.
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  • Hamilton Spectator: We will be completely vindicated, says Susan
    ...ith 18 other adults as authorities investigate allegations of child sexual abuse. ...nal co-ordinator and spokeswoman. He said he believes allegations of child abuse are an attempt by former members to shut down the group.
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  • Hamilton Spectator: Member says he saw child sex abuse inside cult
    ==Member says he saw child sex abuse inside cult== ...religious [[cult]] being investigated after reports of sexual and physical abuse, says he saw children assaulted.
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  • Hamilton Spectator: Cult provided sex services to strangers
    ...h of the [[Family of Love]] says Argentine allegations of sodomy and child abuse are false. ...erview in which she refuted allegations of kidnapping, physical and sexual abuse of children, incest and prostitution.
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  • Kitchener-Waterloo Record: Defending the Family
    '''Child abuse charges in Argentina groundless, cult members say''' ...say the allegations are part of a vendetta by ex-members who claim incest, child sex, semi-nude dancing and prostitution are part of the cult's sex-for-salv
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  • Hamilton Spectator: Cult leader fears AIDS scare at jail
    ...the media by distributing information such as video tapes of alleged child abuse. ...n by private doctors have failed to turn up any sign of physical or sexual abuse.
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  • Hamilton Spectator: Burlington woman free in Argentina cult case
    yesterday after all charges -- including child sex abuse -- against 21 were held on the sexual abuse and other charges, including corruption
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  • Chattanooga Times: Cult crackdown
    ...sman for the cult at its base in England denied the group engaged in child abuse. ...y and were being examined by psychiatrists and doctors for signs of sexual abuse, Sica said. The children ranged in age from infancy to 18. Among them were
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  • FSM 352
    for some reason or other, but who still have a child or brother or sister or friend version. It makes headlines, but it’s about as true as the “child-sucking-vacuum-cleaner”
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  • FSM 353
    “indoctrination” is going to make that child ever think the same way as his child abuse: While growing up in the Family I’ve lived in over 10 countries on
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  • FSM 354
    “There is no greater calling than to be a child of God, and no greater honor of abuse and manipulation. I say it’s not surprising, because the same thing
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  • FSM 355
    things such as child abuse, mindless adherence to </p> abuse people is something that I certainly don’t </p>
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  • Columbus Dispatch: Columbus woman says she escaped cult horrors
    ...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 Because of the years of abuse, many children who escape from the cult descend
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  • ABC News: New Focus on Fringe Religious Sect
    ===Child Sex Allegations Haunt Group Known For Biblical Prophecy, Sexual Freedom=== Nearly two decades after it officially renounced adult-child sex in response to allegations of sexual misconduct, there are new question
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  • Argentina
    ...21 adult members are detained under preliminary charges that include child abuse, corruption of minors, kidnapping, reduction of persons to servitude, illeg
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  • Houston Chronicle: Prisoner of a cult
    For almost a decade, he was the prisoner of a [[cult]] of prostitution and child pornography. Today, he's a teen-ager in police custody in [[Argentina]], a ...ested 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
    ...were arrested in Argentina Nov. 4 on charges of drug trafficking and child abuse, and 34 children were picked up. The adults were later released, but 29 of
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  • Houston Chronicle: Mother accuses State Dept. of hindering rescue of teen
    ...veral 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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  • Houston Chronicle: Past returns to haunt 'Parent of the Year'
    ...mous when, in addition to prostituting female members, they were linked to child pornography in South America. ...award to a North Carolina woman who had previously been convicted of child abuse.
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  • Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 'Heaven's Harlot' looks back on Jesus freak days
    ...f children. When she found anatomically correct sexual pictures drawn by a child who lived in her communal home, she began to fear for her own five children "I ask my daughters periodically whether they remember any abuse," she said. "So far, they have told me no."
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  • Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The Family: Hippie throwback or dangerous, abusive cult
    ...sex with a minor is now an excommunicable offense, and he dismissed child-abuse investigations in Europe, Australia and Latin America as "witch hunts."
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  • Philadelphia Inquirer: Berg's Followers Say Death Report Won't Deter Them
    ...t least five countries who have accused the group of everything from child abuse to white slavery, still expect to aggressively promote "[[Father David]]'s" ...Australia, Venezuela and Peru, where the sect has been charged with child abuse, forced labor, and using sex to attract members.
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  • Heaven's Harlots
    ...d [[River Phoenix]], the disillusioned young movie star who died from drug abuse, spent years of his childhood in the Children of God. ...ice in the cult and bore five children. Eventually, the ugly weed of child abuse was creeping through the camp. Fearful it might touch my own children, I sn
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  • Tribunal de Menores de Mercedes - Cause number 32.202
    ...ding kidnapping, hiding children, falsification of documents, rape, sexual abuse, illegal deprivation of libery and reduction to a state of servitude) beyon * [[Daily Mail: Yard probe into child cult]] &mdash; 1993-09-03
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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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  • Philadelphia Inquirer: Church declines to aid sect accused of abusing children
    ...mily]], a controversial religious sect that has faced accusations of child abuse and sexual misconduct, showed up at Sunday services last month and asked la ...Family members who live communally on the city's west side. He denied the abuse allegations, and said he was deeply disappointed by Mr. Hubler's action. "H
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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 When our oldest child was eighteen months of age his father spanked him so hard that it left spot
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  • Legal Case Argentina, 1993
    ...|ruling]] in which he infers the existence of the following crimes; sexual abuse, rape, hiding of minors, fraud, reduction to a state of servitude, and fals * [[The Independent: Cult denies child sex abuse]] &mdash; 1993-07-02
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  • Midwest Christian Outreach Journal: A Family Affair
    ...ncluding expulsion from some nations, and occasional prosecution for child abuse. “'''Flirty fishing'''” was discontinued in [[1987]], officially in ord
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  • New York Times: Argentines Say a Sex Cult Enslaved 268 Children
    ...judge who began the investigation and ordered the raids. "The evidence of abuse of children is very strong." "The suggestions that we are involved in satanic rituals, child abuse, prostitution, begging and kidnapping are deplorable," the Family said in a
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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 ...Fishing|prostitution]], polygamy, rape and [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual abuse]] of children and incest.
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  • Misattribution and Social Control in the Children of God
    ...the personal message I received from David Berg was that God had taken my child because I was an unfit mother - this was my comfort. And people acted like ...ow to raise their children."<sup>36</sup> Unable to blame the death of her child, as she was subsequently able to do, on "negligence and the way we were liv
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  • US Magazine: Strange Days
    ...Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia, 13-year-old [[River Phoenix]] played a child crushed by his secret reading impairment. The drama is slight, but River's ...lems. Arlyn, who would later rename herself Heart, gave birth to her fifth child, Summer Joy, in 1978.
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  • The Family's response to the June 2005 Rolling Stone article
    ...City, Mexico|Mexico City]], "I think the allegations of [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]] [directed at Family leaders] are absurd and unfounded." ...ther young children or teenage children. I have no evidence that child sex abuse is presently prevalent any more within The Family than outside it." (Family
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  • Rolling Stone: The Life and Death of the Chosen One
    ...t]]. Zerby played a central and enthusiastic role in the [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]] of young members, Ricky chief among them, even going so far as to have se ...ge cult-produced religious tome that graphically chronicles Ricky's sexual abuse as a toddler, he is depicted as the Chosen One. It would turn out to be tru
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  • The Mirror: Our years of terror growing up in an evil child sex cult
    ==REAL STORIES: Our years of terror growing up in an evil child sex cult== ...d, separated by a religious [[cult]] where [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual abuse]] and [[:Category:Incest|incest]] were not just routine, they were actively
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  • The Mirror: My parents let evil cult use me as a child sex slave
    ==My parents let evil cult use me as a child sex slave== ...ct that when I needed her most, to protect me from the sexual and physical abuse I suffered at the hands of her cult "brothers", she was nowhere to be found
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  • Los Angeles Times: 58 Americans Held in Argentina Sex-Sect Raid
    ...unded in O.C. in [[1968]] as the [[Children of God]], is accused of carnal abuse of children''' [[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
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  • Los Angeles Times: Paraguay Police Raid Home Owned by Cult Suspected of Child Abuse
    ==Paraguay Police Raid Home Owned by Cult Suspected of Child Abuse== ...by a [[cult]] that has been accused in neighboring [[Argentina]] of child abuse and rape, private Radio Nanduti reported Wednesday.
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  • Clarifying Contentious Issues: A Rejoinder to Melton, Shupe, and Lewis
    ...'s encouragement and facilitation of child [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual abuse]]. (See Melton's own reference to two book chapters from a [[1978]] teen tr ...a relatively close period of time about the crucial issue of child sexual abuse.
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  • Tina Dupuy
    ...hen I was very young. Some things we have in common (i.e. anger, [[alcohol abuse]] and the fact that we all bawled uncontrollably when we found out about Ri ...own for my humor and not for my association with a [[:Category:Child Abuse|child abusing]], [[Flirty Fishing|prostitution encouraging]] – good old fashion
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  • Times-Picayune: 'Death Is A Vacation'
    ...t earlier this year awarded a girl more than $10,000 in damages for sexual abuse she claimed at the hands of the group. "The issue you keep coming back to is adult-child sexuality," he said.
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  • People Magazine: Was the Family Doing God's Work - Or Unspeakable Harm?
    ...children grew up in the grip of a cult that allowed the widespread sexual abuse of minors. “When I was 7, I was molested by a woman,” says Roselle, now ...the Family is long overdue. Says Ross: “They have a history of horrific abuse.”
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  • Brian Edward Pickus
    ...ipated in acts of violence against and [[:Category:Physical Abuse|physical abuse]] of children in the [[1980s]]. ...ned to prosecute Pickus on the original charges from the 1980 burglary and child abduction case.
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  • Sydney Morning Herald: The Family v. The Rock
    ...tence of satanic cults believed to be involved in the sacrifice and sexual abuse of children. ...es of any kind. The police have decided the Cobham hearing is now simply a child-care case.
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  • Sydney Morning Herald: For God's sake
    Sect members were branded child abusers on little more than hearsay and suggestion and some historical cult Eventually, after what some lawyers labelled the most shameful episode in NSW child-care history since the removal of Aboriginal children from their parents in
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  • Sydney Morning Herald: The Family's Planning
    ...sect were dragged sleeping from their beds, the alleged victims of sexual abuse and brainwashing. An open day anniversary celebration of the sect's unexpec ...for Jesus) and much more sexual freedom, but never [[:Category:Abuse|child abuse]]. Never.
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  • The Age: Keeping it in the Family
    '''If child protection workers thought they had such a strong case for protective order ...ity Services Department, Dr John Paterson, was unrepentant when police and child protection workers raided Victorian residences of the religious group, [[Th
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  • The Age: Family's leader sends top aide to secret talks
    ...r Amsterdam]] met lawyers for the Family in the Melbourne Children's Court child-protection case. Mr Berg certainly experimented with and encouraged child sex with adults and other children almost 20 years ago, Dr Millikan said.
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  • The Age: Moses David's children
    ...een in any child abuse," he said. He would not elaborate on what form this abuse had taken.
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  • The Age: What prompted the CSV raids?
    ...into the sect's children was under way. In November last year, the police child exploitation unit had checked a sect house in a smart Melbourne suburb. Nex As the raids were being planned, a professor of child psychiatry was consulted. Inquiries were made as far as Barcelona, where se
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  • The Age: Secret Cabinet deal killed Family case
    According to sources close to the case, the political directive to end the child-protection case was in spite of Dr Paterson's view that the case should pro ...dren he interviewed showed no evidence of disturbance or [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]] and were delightful and well-adjusted.
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  • Colorado Springs Gazette: Man who returned parenting award denies ties to cult
    ...child pornography in South America and [[:Category:Physical Abuse|physical abuse]] of members' children.
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  • Christianity Today: Sex Abuse Charges Disputed
    ==Sex Abuse Charges Disputed== ...that she has no physical evidence of current [[:Category:Child Abuse|child abuse]].
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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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  • Cosmopolitan: A sex cult stole my childhood
    ...[[:Category:Incest|incest]], 'free love' and [[:Category:Child Abuse|child abuse]]. She tells ''Cosmo'' how she escaped their grasp''' ...various women. The cult taught us that one person's child was everyone's child.
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  • Dateline NBC: A message from beyond the grave
    Transcript: [[Dateline NBC: A Child Lost]]<br> ...[https://media.xfamily.org/video/tv/dateline2005-08-19.avi Dateline NBC: A Child Lost] (17:24, 46.5MB) &ndash; 2005-08-19
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  • Christianity Today: COG Founder Berg Dead at 75
    ...gal battles]] in foreign countries over [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|child sex abuse]] charges, although no convictions have resulted.
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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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  • Cornerstone Magazine: The Children Without Their "Father"
    ...elical circles who were brought to faith in Jesus through the witness of a Child of God. ...n marriage, "flirty fishing" evangelism, and at least accusations of adult/child sexuality?'''''
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  • James D. Chancellor
    ...icky Rodriguez]] and The Family's history of [[:Category:Child Abuse|child abuse]]. ...uments admissions by first and second generation Family members that adult/child sexual intimacy was practiced as part of the group's liberal [[:Category:Se
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  • Nova Religio Book Review: Life in The Family: An Oral History of the Children of God
    ...agers" who left the Family, "some bore the scars of emotional and physical abuse as well as evidence [of] very serious sexual exploitation" (p. 195). This i ...sexually transmitted diseases]] (p. 117), illegitimate children, financial abuse of disciples by Family leaders (pp. 91, 164), [[corporal punishment]] of ch
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  • ABC News: Tale of the Tape
    (Voice Over) The man with a gun was once a child in pain. ...thousands. This man, [[David Berg]], was its charismatic leader. And this child, his heir apparent. This little boy, idolized by thousands as a prophet in
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  • CNN Larry King Live: 'The Family' - Preachers or Pornographers?
    ...arges leveled by a former member and a cult specialist of sexual abuse and child molestation. ...hing. [[Rick Dupuy]] left The Family a year-and-a-half ago, charging child abuse. His wife and several children remain members. Dupuy joins us from San Fran
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  • CBS News: Woman breaks away from religious cult that promoted prostitution and sexual abuse of their children
    ==Woman breaks away from religious cult that promoted prostitution and sexual abuse of their children== ...ia's parents were typical Mo disciples, turning a blind eye towards sexual abuse of children within the group. Unlike her parents' generation, who joined se
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  • CBS News: Dozens of American children picked up during police raid on Argentinian branch of international cult
    ...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 Anderson Cooper 360: Murder-Suicide Leads to Secretive Cult
    ...ally happened to the so-called Children of God? And what led this one-time child prophet to kill? ...amily's leader, took violent, deadly revenge for what he claims was sexual abuse at the hands of those who raised him. And there are charges that there were
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  • Daily Mail: Yard probe into child cult
    ==Yard probe into child cult== ...abuse. Argentine reports said some of the children showed signs of sexual abuse and may have been involved in Satanic rituals.
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  • Daily Mail: House of croquet and free love
    ...rt of an anti-cult movement's attempts to blacken us. Allegations of child abuse are nonsense."
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  • Daily Mail: 'Reformed' Sex Cult Can Keep Children
    He stressed that the older boy - 'a delightful, happy child' - had never been abused or ill-treated and his mother had made sure he was ...d to have died last year, and they would be monitored regularly. The older child - both are the result of a relationship with a married man - will remain a
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  • Evening Standard: We swap wives in the name of Jesus, says cult
    ...being kept against their will and say they have never suffered any sexual abuse. But Mrs [[Valerie Jones]], the mother of 18-year-old Celeste, believes the ...re children may have been involved in sex. He said: "I have never abused a child and neither have any of the adults here. We believe in bringing them up by
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  • Evening Standard: Evil Berg still leads cult from beyond the grave
    He said he had a feeling of "revulsion" as the evidence of child abuse, corruption of minors, incest, and torture, all in the name of love, unfold ...damaged members of The Family who have perpetrated abuse, or have suffered abuse, and their personalities are warped accordingly."
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  • CNN Headline News: Religious Sect Accused of Child Abuse and Pornography
    ==Religious Sect Accused of Child Abuse and Pornography== ...in The Children of God started in the early '80s. It was not called sexual abuse because they did believe that it was God's way to show God's love to the ch
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  • London Times: Judge condemns cult's founder as perverted and malign influence
    members and expert witnesses in child psychology, made clear that the child's mother and grandmother both wanted the best interests of the boy to
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  • Alberta Report Western Report: Chilling reminders of "free love": an Argentine incest bust stirs gruesome memories in Alberta
    of child sex abuse and prostitution allegations. and had her first child.
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  • UC Berkeley News: The accidental activist: Daniel Roselle
    ...countries began investigating the group for [[:Category:Child Abuse|child abuse]] and [[:Category:Pedophilia|pedophilia]]. His wife [[Karen Zerby]] became ...otape]] announcing his intent to exact revenge for the [[Story of Davidito|abuse]] he had suffered at The Family's hands, which included participation in se
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  • Editorial Reviews: Heaven's Harlots by Miriam Williams
    ...istian fundamentalist cult (River Phoenix had spent years in the cult as a child). Williams soon found herself pregnant, married and forced into "giving sex ...aise funds for the Church. After hearing allegations of young child sexual abuse, Williams decamped. This book illuminates one person's struggle with spirit
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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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  • Good Morning America: Family International Cult Under Scrutiny After Murder-Suicide
    ...hat he was seeking revenge against people he says sexually abused him as a child. ...ng held accountable. One of reasons is that this, this group, most of this abuse took place overseas, (clears throat) excuse me, and, and also, 10 to 20 yea
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  • Statement from Daniel Roselle (Sr.) re Daniel Roselle
    The first time Daniel ever mentioned this alleged abuse to me was on Sunday, October 6, 2002, (when he was 27 years old) when he an ...t occasions years before she ever became a missionary, when she was just a child, without her mother’s knowledge. She never dreamed of blaming her mother
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  • Dr. Phil: The Family Cult Escapees
    ...ive years old, a guy would throw me on the floor. My mother knew about the abuse, and she has not done a single thing about it. McGRAW: It's a secret world of polygamy and alleged abuse going on right here in the US in a town called Colorado City.
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  • 60 Minutes Australia: Sinful Acts
    ...guez is on a mission, a mission to kill the people he says abused him as a child. ...abuse within the cult occurred long ago and that David Berg's teachings on child sex had been outlawed.
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  • California Patriot: Courage and self-reliance
    ..._Abuse|sexual abuse]] of members' children. After twenty years of enduring abuse, continuous attempts at indoctrination, and very limited contact with the o ...despite The Family's attempts to brainwash him. In Roselle's words, "As a child, I was fully invested in their culture. I had no other experiences to measu
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  • 60 Minutes New Zealand: The Children of God
    SARAH HALL: David Berg’s wife [[Maria]] gave birth to a child called [[Davidito]]. He was to be the next heir. Berg and Maria then publis ...this type of education did to some of the children is clear. Davidito, the child raised to one day lead the Children of God was none other than Ricky Rodrig
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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 killer?== ...at religious America thought had conveniently healed long ago: the alleged abuse of potentially hundreds of children by [[The Family]], a radical “free lo
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  • Montel Williams: Sex Abuse and Mind Control: Raised in a Cult
    ==Sex Abuse and Mind Control: Raised in a Cult== ...ps://media.xfamily.org/video/tv/montel-2005-10-24.avi Montel Williams: Sex Abuse and Mind Control: Raised in a Cult] (40:56, 128.8MB) <br><small>([https://m
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  • Associated Press: `The Family' wants cult-hunting group dissolved
    PARIS (AP) - A religious group accused of child [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]] wants the [[cult]]-hunting group that spurred on police to be dissolved, ...re being [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexually]] and [[:Category:Psychological Abuse|emotionally abused]]. The raids followed a two-year investigation.
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  • Associated Press: Mexican groups accuse U.S.-based cult of sexual abuse
    ==Mexican groups accuse U.S.-based cult of sexual abuse== ....S.]]-based religious sect known as "[[The Family]]" of [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexually abusive]] practices, according to reports published Tuesday.
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  • Globe and Mail: B.C. officials seize 13 children after claim that one molested
    ...been no [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]] of my children either [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual]] or otherwise," the father said. The father had made allegations of sexual abuse previously but a ministry investigation concluded that they were unfounded.
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  • The Guardian: Charges against cult blamed on ex-members
    ...[[:Category:Child Abduction|kidnapping]] and [[:Category:Child Abuse|child abuse]] which led to the arrest in [[Argentina]] of 30 adult members and the remo ...that some of the children showed signs of [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual abuse]] and some reports said they had been involved in satanic rituals. The chil
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  • Houston Chronicle: Members of sect say they're being persecuted
    ...tine]] court for questioning on charges of [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual abuse]] and other crimes. ...sexual abuse to racketeering, [[Flirty Fishing|prostitution]], [[:Category:Child Abduction|kidnapping]] and concealing of children, court officials said.
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  • The Independent: Cult denies child sex abuse
    ==Cult denies child sex abuse== ...day to deny allegations that it encourages [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual abuse]] of children.
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  • The Independent: Gideon's Bible of Free Love
    ...Buenos Aires, [[Argentina]], after allegations of child [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]]. ...not among those sect members held on charges of racketeering, [[:Category:Child Abduction|kidnapping]] and violating the rights of children.
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  • The Independent: `We were always afraid. Silly things like frowning were punished'
    Like the other children, Christina was repeatedly [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexually abused]] by members of the group, from the age of two-and-a-half u ...all the arguments so many times before. Deep down I felt hurt because the child inside still believed that she should have protected me from all that becau
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  • The Independent: Parent of the Year `ran camp for cult'
    ...David Berg]], which has been repeatedly accused of [[:Category:Abuse|child abuse]] and [[Flirty Fishing|prostitution]] and whose female members work as "hap
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  • London Times: Follower describes childhood of abuse
    ==Follower describes childhood of abuse== ...had been [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexually]] and [[:Category:Psychological Abuse|mentally abused]] from the age of three by followers of the sect. She was b
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  • The Observer: Members put on defensive by raids
    ...tude towards sex, but it isn't all free love and croquet. No, they did not abuse their children. ...of God/The Family, the religious group that has been condemned as an evil, child-abusing sex [[cult]] and pursued by police forces around the world.
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  • Salt Lake Tribune: Radical religious group returns to U.S.
    ...n]] where communes affiliated with the Family have been charged with child abuse. Critics also cite a swell of recent media attention in [[Japan]] to the Fa
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  • The Scotsman: Sex cult said to be recuiting in Scotland
    ...owy religious [[cult]] at the centre of child [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sex abuse]] and brainwashing allegations is active in central [[Scotland]], a cult in ...s alleged practices has been compiled by Scotland Yard for distribution to child welfare agencies.
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  • Sunday Age: Director worries for children
    That children should be [[:Category:Physical Abuse|severely physically punished]] for wrongdoing. ("You've got to have a rod o ...ursued the group around the world for several years to recover a Victorian child held by her father in the sect, said it was easy to be duped by the Childre
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  • London Times: The day the 'Martians' woke up
    ...d and taken into care and fear the children may have been part of a global child-sex network; some are thought to have been moved to South America after pre ...had gathered evidence to accuse the cult of [[:Category:Incest|incest]], [[Child ABduction|kidnapping]], rape, [[polygamy]] and [[tax evasion]], it was too
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  • Houston Press: Family Ties
    ...[[:Category:Physical Abuse|physical]] and [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual abuse]] they suffered as kids. Several key members live in Texas. ...uez's childhood sexual abuse was documented in a book intended as a Family child-rearing manual (see "'''[[Houston Press: Bedtime Stories|Bedtime Stories]]'
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  • List of Family pseudonyms
    | Polio Child Relief Mumbai ...FI and former [[MWM]] host [[Simon Peter]], also connected to child sexual abuse.
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  • The Truth!--vs. 112 Official Lies!
    ...mple of permissible and commendable criminal action against a defenseless "child" and supposed proof of our own guilt! ...Prophets! <br><br> 43. <b>NEITHER DO WE VIOLENTLY ASSAULT, RAPE, SEXUALLY ABUSE, ENSLAVE, IMPRISON, FORCIBLY DETAIN, KIDNAP, ABDUCT NOR PSYCHOLOGICALLY OR
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  • Arturo Odilo Godoy
    ...to indicate that the Family immediately reported the alleged incidents of abuse to law enforcement agencies when it first became aware of them. In July [[1
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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
    *[[Christianity Today: Sex Abuse Charges Disputed]] &mdash; 1993-10-25 .../students/orgs/hrj/iss14/oren.shtml Harvard Human Rights Journal: Righting Child Custody Wrongs: The Children of the "Disappeared" In Argentina] &mdash; By
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  • Julio Manuel Cámpora
    ...ding kidnapping, hiding children, falsification of documents, rape, sexual abuse, illegal deprivation of libery and reduction to a state of servitude) beyon Judge Cámpora was also involved in another case involving The Family when a child whom [[Brian Edward Pickus]] abducted in [[1980]] and who, in July [[1987]]
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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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  • Lashes of Love!
    ...pecially Rachel this morning who has been sacrificing herself and even her child, Lord, to Thy service. We ask you to help her to get more rest now and her <small style="color:green;">28.</small> '''<u>WE FEEL SORRY FOR A CHILD OR BABE OR WHOEVER IT MAY BE BECAUSE THEY SEEM TO HURT SO BAD</u>''' and th
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  • San Francisco Chronicle: Mixed Memories of 'The Family' Love: Current sect members think so
    ...losophy of free love led to widespread [[:Category:Pedophilia|child sexual abuse]] in the [[1970s]] and [[1980s]].
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  • Sunday Telegraph Magazine: Family Values
    '''Child abuse, prostitution, promiscuity. That's all in the past for the shiny, happy peo ...ustice Ward|child custody battle]] involving a four-year-old boy, known as Child S, whose mother is a member of a religious sect called the [[Family of Love
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  • Folio: CBS News "Eyes" the U of A
    ...[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual]] and [[:Category:Emotional Abuse|emotional abuse]]." ...l service agencies because of allegations of [[:Category:Child Abuse|child abuse]], says Kent.
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  • Uncut: Walking With Demons
    ...vid Berg]], which was later investigated by the [[FBI]] over alleged child abuse — indeed, River Phoenix once claimed to have lost his virginity at the ag From child actor to indie misfit to brooding Hollywood anti-hero, Joaquin Phoenix is f
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  • Australia
    ...ategory:Abuse|child abuse]], both [[physical abuse|physical]] and [[sexual abuse|sexual]].<ref>Wilmoth, Peter. "[[The Sunday Age: Meet The Family|Meet The F
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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 ...den mate enough credence to get official government help in abducting your child.
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  • A Call to Arms!
    ...em 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!" [[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. ...ildren. Possibly at stake were matters of [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual abuse]] and mind control. Tom Jarriel has a startling, two-part report that's be
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  • NBC Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric
    ...tions 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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  • Dateline NBC: Losing Faith
    (Photos of Donna Collins as a child) (Various crowds of people; child in wagon; women and children; little girl; candles; split screen showing Be
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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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  • The Family's Response to "The Love Prophet and the Children of God"
    ...ary seems to imply that the raids were carried out in response to cases of abuse, which is contradictory to the court findings in each of these situations. ...0 children taken into state care were found to be healthy, with no sign of abuse of any kind in a single case. Upon completing exhaustive investigations of
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  • Lauren: Allegations of Apologies
    ...in various Letters or other publications. (See the 1992 Statement on Child Abuse; "Our Beliefs Concerning the Lord's Law of Love," ML #2858:50-51, published ...e Charter to ensure that no harm of any kind related to sexual or physical abuse happens, and if it does, that those who caused it can be disciplined."
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  • Lauren: Responsibility and Abuse
    ==Responsibility and Abuse== These factors are: Responsibility and the Definition of Abuse.
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  • Albatross - Berg and TF on Education
    ...ificial providers for men (an all that doctrine’s resulting impact), and child labor. ...basic education, which used to be the common thing in the old days. All a child needed was about six or eight grades of basic education, and by that time t
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  • Sydney Morning Herald: Beyond Belief
    ...rder, the cult deteriorated into bizarre sexual practices, including child abuse. ..., and the cult deteriorated further into a morass of flirty fishing, child abuse and stripping videos (notably, men were not sent out to FF).
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  • Sydney Morning Herald: Child Sex Evidence Queried
    ==Child Sex Evidence Queried== She said then: "We're talking of subtle abuse in some cases. I'm not implying all these children have had sexual intercou
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  • Sydney Morning Herald: Magistrate Slams Sect Case Lawyers
    ...children of The Family religious sect may mean separate hearings for each child over the next five or six years, Cobham Children's Court was told yesterday ...e' is so potent it must convey to most adults some serious physical sexual abuse of those children ... I'm told there's not going to be any evidence of this
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  • Sydney Morning Herald: Sex Abuse Was Subtle, Court Told
    ==Sex Abuse Was Subtle, Court Told== In the second week of hearing into a child care application involving 65 sect children, the department's Campbelltown
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  • Sydney Morning Herald: Bid To Put 66 Children In Care
    ...physical abuse, education, specific needs for a disabled child, emotional abuse to a question of responsibility for the children.
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  • Sydney Morning Herald: Court In Uproar Over Family Sect Ruling
    ...llegations by the Department of Community Services of sexual abuse of each child in the sect's three commune houses in Sydney's Hills district.
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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. ...ime was the boy quizzed about the major concern of the department - sexual abuse - although it contends that when sect boys turned 12 they were considered m
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  • Sydney Morning Herald: Sect Warns Of $10M Damages Claim Over Raids
    ...children are in danger of educational, emotional, psychological and sexual abuse, which the parents reject. 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
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  • Sydney Morning Herald: No Extra Magistrates For Sect Case
    ...id: "The convulsions are a clear indication of the stress inflicted on the child by the department looking after him ... the parents are certainly incredibl ...nt supervision of two people ... the department has acted properly and the child is now in the best location possible".
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  • Jules - Lonnie Davis (Marc): My Jumbo Story
    ...t was not just one isolated individual, but repeated, continual violation, abuse and neglect from the time I was 11 and my parents went to the "Mission Fiel ...each of them, just like they did to Mene. I prayed again and again for “child-like faith”, to just yield and accept things, without having to understan
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  • Kathy Farrell
    ...figuring it out, we were babes in the woods when it came to physiological abuse, and we too were just trying to get by. ==Alleged Child Abuse==
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  • Jules - Apologetics and Academic Supporters of The Family
    ...France in 1992, insisting that the accused were positively "not guilty of abuse upon children." In the interview [with Paidika], he prevailed upon pedophil ...Roger Scotford and Richard Ofshe a Dutch Conference in June 1995 attacking child protection."
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  • The Australian: Keeping it in the Family
    ...ory:Psychological Abuse|emotional]] or [[:Category:Physical Abuse|physical abuse]] of children and a link to the group's unorthodox [[:Category:Beliefs|beli ...s". Critics of the group have also accused them of permitting child sexual abuse, but no charges have been successful.
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  • The Australian: Child's Play - Judge Rules Sect Raid Trespass
    ==Child's Play - Judge Rules Sect Raid Trespass== ...nger of being, [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexually]] or [[:Category:Physical Abuse|physically abused]].
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  • Australian Associated Press: NSW - Sect children warrant invalidly executed, court told
    ...ger of being, [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexually]] and [[:Category:Physical Abuse|physically abused]] - claims The Family said were unsubstantiated. ...various documents, including a copy of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Declaration of the United Nations on the protection and welfare of
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  • Reuters: Sect children beaten and made to smile, court told
    ...t the children were likely to suffer significant [[:Category:Psychological Abuse|emotional harm]].
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  • Straits Times: 140 Aussie kids saved after raids on religious cult
    ...id]] and [[Chairman Mo]], is reportedly sought by US police on [[:Category:Child Abduction|kidnapping]], rape and extortion charges. ...ustralia. The sect has recently been associated with allegations of sexual abuse and several state authorities in Australia are investigating the claims.
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  • Sunday Times: Sex-cult children held - Children of God
    ...ry:Sexual Abuse|sexual]] and [[:Category:Psychological Abuse|psychological abuse]] by a religious [[cult]]. ...raids were quickly condemned by a leading lawyer as "legalised [[:Category:Child Abduction|kidnapping]]" and "fascist lunacy". A court hearing tomorrow will
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  • Report to Dad and Maria from Australia
    '''CHILD/ADULT SEX''' ...r anything except perhaps the Davidito book. She could not accept that any abuse had occurred because of his teaching. She did not believe that Berg had see
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  • Claim by Family spokesperson that Ricky Rodriguez was "not the subject of corporal punishment"
    ..., Rodriguez publicly detailed alleged incidents of later severe [[physical abuse]] of him and other children by Sara Kelley. ...|PDF Icon]][http://www.xfamily.org/images/f/f5/Ml-718.pdf The Potato! --On Child Discipline!] &mdash; [[DFO]] No. 718, 1978-06-12
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  • Investigation regarding the bibliography of the Children of God: The existence of clandestine jails
    ...ke the kidnapping definitive, Berg quickly married "Lydia" to "Caleb." The child soon born to this couple, a few years later, fled the group, by which "Lydi ...was given to a child. In the sect they always say the accusations of child abuse which are made against them are lies. Nevertheless, in the sect's own liter
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  • HomeARC ML 0607
    ..., suffering from hunger, malnutrition, disease, ill health, overwork, evil abuse, the tortures of war and nightmares of perpetual fearful insecurity. ...like a newborn baby born into a whole new world with a new spirit as a new child of God! His Spirit within you will then enable you to do the humanly imposs
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  • HomeARC ML 0744
    ...ING GOING ON NOW ALL ABOUT THIS TEST TUBE BABY</u>''. Are they murdering a child if they throw out a few of those fertilized eggs that didn't take? Sometime <br><br>       12. ''<u>I WOULD ONLY CALL IT AN UNFORMED CHILD</u>'', one that is not yet completely formed. That's not until the end of t
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  • HomeARC ML 1025
    ...n <u>two</u> parents. And if you haven't got a mother or a father for your child or children, you'd better get one quick! Pray one in <u>now</u>!--So you ca ...& YOU</u>'', if you treat it too roughly, which constitutes mistreatment & abuse. Obviously you are never to leave it outside in the sun or the rain or dust
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  • HomeARC ML 1079
    ...ude of computing needs including your monthly Stats. So use it!--But don't abuse it! There are many labour-saving & time-saving devices which the System has ...on a single silicon chip. On a later machine, called Speak & Read ($75), a child can complete sentence at three levels of difficulty by pressing letters on
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  • HomeARC ML 1135
    ...e night or a combination of both or all three, & the first thing I ask the child, or usually the parents or nurses or those responsible is, did he get chill
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  • HomeARC ML 1138
    ...& they were praying desperately for a grandson. Then Conchi had her third child & it was another girl! And the Lord told me that they would never have anot ...'', & then if you <u>do</u> you'll suffer a penalty for it. If you overdo, abuse your body, go to the excess & get sore & raw or even actually wounded, you'
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  • HomeARC ML 1237
    ...it & to make you feel good, amen? Just don't be excessive & intemperate & abuse your body & overdo! Maybe the Lord did that to save me this morning. If it ...e early Biblical days, & quite often you read they didn't have their first child till after they were 65, 75, 85 or 95! You can read it & see! They didn't s
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