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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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