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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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  • HomeARC ML 1287
    <br><br>       20. ''<u>THEN LIKE A CHILD PLAYING WITH BLOCKS OR SOMETHING, THERE WERE THESE LITTLE OBJECTS LIKE BLOC ...pite of our explaining to them the very simple plan that God had, like the child's blocks, the row of blocks. He had to get out there with his logarithms &
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  • HomeARC ML 1316
    ...YACHE AT GOD</u>'' for His failures & His mistreatment & His neglect & His abuse & His cruelty & His deafness & His unconcern, because none of those things <br><br>       21. ''<u>ALMOST A LITTLE CHILD CAN UNDERSTAND THAT ABOUT SHEPHERD & SHEEP</u>!'' That's why the Lord used
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  • HomeARC ML 1362
    ...Lord has given me, the temple of His Spirit, & try to be good to it & not abuse it. As even the apostle said, "No man ever yet hated his own body" (Eph.5:2 ...from beets, a greenish tinge from green vegetables etc. In general if the child feels & acts perfectly well, there is nothing to be concerned about.
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  • HomeARC ML 1402
    ...h is the temple of the Holy Ghost." (1Cor.3:16,17) That would be the final abuse, the worst of all, to kill your own body. ...that's best?) Of course! God knows what's best, whether it's best for the child to live or die. Pray for the Will of God!
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  • HomeARC ML 1406
    ...reading several times through on some of these things. I don't want you to abuse your eyes, Honey, & I don't want you to get too tired. I'd rather have you ...ENT PARENT WILL LET THE CHILD GET AWAY WITH A THING FOR AWHILE, but as the child begins to get so cantankerous & so rebellious & so stubborn & disobedient &
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  • HomeARC ML 1407
    ...most went! So I've often thought, "Well, I'm still suffering from the self-abuse of that period when I burned out my insides by trying to drink myself to de ...Well, Dad will never know the difference." Because Maeve was his favourite child.
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  • HomeARC ML 1434
    ...a Fellowships where hundreds of people could catch the same thing from one child or one adult through reckless & indiscriminate social or physical contact! ...ENJOY HOME SEX ALL YOU WANT, HAVE A GOOD TIME! THANK GOD FOR IT! But don't abuse this liberty & freedom that God has given us sexually by overdoing it & goi
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  • HomeARC ML 1543
    ...rent is always really pleased, you know, no matter what it looks like, his child drew that picture. So He's going to be proud of you, Son, for these pretty ..., DO BLESS THEM & HELP OUR ARTISTS TO TAKE GOOD CARE OF THEMSELVES, to not abuse the temples of Thy Holy Spirit & to take good care of'm & give you all the
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  • HomeARC ML 1643
    <br>       A faithful friend, a child's tender look; ...EVE IT'S FORBIDDEN IN SCRIPTURE BY PROHIBITIONS ON MARKINGS OF SKIN & SELF ABUSE.</u> (Mic.3:2; 1Cor.3:16-17; 6:9) Besides, who needs <u>it?--We</u> have th
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  • HomeARC ML 1646
    <br><br>       <u>31. (23/5/83) I THRILL TO EVERY NEW CHILD!</u> We've having so much fun with the new baby! She is a case, she's reall ...nt in our Family! (7/2/83) (When serving water:) You should give it to the child first. It's harder for children to wait. Children first! Thank you, Son! I
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  • HomeARC ML 1664
    ''<u>A PROBLEM CHILD</u>!''       DFO 1664       11/83 ...bviously. To adopt a child that old, four or five years of age, I mean the child has already had his original training & programming & it's very unlikely th
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  • HomeARC ML 1698
    ...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! ...t to pass laws against these cults & sects & isms! We've got to stop their abuse of the children! They are unfit mothers, unfit fathers, unfit parents with
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  • HomeARC ML 1856
    ...about our Family & Dad & Dad's supposed sexual sins--when he himself is a child rapist!--A serious crime in most societies & something that would be consid ...a shrill cackle, a heinous laugh of just pure pleasure at seeing a little child in pain!
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  • HomeARC ML 2061
    ...y like to trust the kids with some of those things. But if you never let a child learn how to swim on his own without a life-saver or an inner tube, he'll n ...are abusing their body on top of it with drugs & drinking.)--Yes! ... They abuse the children more with all of their horrible lack of training & spoiling &
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  • HomeARC ML 2072
    ...> short-sighted!" A lot of people were born that way, other people sort of abuse their eyes by overuse or reading in poor light or whatever, but they get gl ...t happened? What's wrong?" So Jesus rebuked the devil & cast him out & the child was cured.
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  • HomeARC ML 2094
    ...u ever see any depictions of a live Christ He's always a little child, the Child Christ. They worship a dead Christ or a baby Christ, & a live Mary, & obvio ...ffer enough to be saved, you can deny yourself enough to be saved, you can abuse your body enough to be saved. How horrible! What an insult to God! What ing
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  • HomeARC ML 2143
    <br>       <u>5. IT'S PITIFUL HOW THEY ABUSE THEIR BODIES!</u> There was a guy at Wheaton College, I remember, that died ...something more than you do the <u>Lord</u>, whether it's your mate or your child or your home or your job or your car or television or the opinions of men o
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  • HomeARC ML 2236
    ...n the name of <u>Jesus</u> we ask Thee! Depart from this body & leave this child of God alone! In the name of <u>Jesus</u> we ask, <u>right now</u>! In Jesu ...all recover!" (Mk.16:17,18) So Lord, we are laying hands on this, Thy sick child right now, & You promised that he'd recover. So he's in <u>Your</u> hands &
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  • HomeARC ML 2322
    ...& so loved that child that she was willing to take care of somebody else's child, then He gave her two of her own now! <u>(1990: --And 5 now!)</u> ...He? He knows whether you need children or not, whether you're ready for a child or not.
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  • HomeARC ML 2366
    <br>       <u>44. The Lord spoke of one case where He said "Before the child would even know good from evil" that a certain thing was going to happen</u ...human body is the most amazing machine known to Man. It can take the most abuse & all kinds of wear & tear, & yet repair itself constantly & last longer th
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  • HomeARC ML 2439
    ...ses, their accusations have been sexual, so-called incest, or pornography, child sex & blah blah. ...where we're at! (Maria: Except for the most recent accusations, the child abuse issue. That's the one thing that the Devil really likes to use now.)
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  • HomeARC ML 2464
    ...<u>us</u>! When I first started hearing about this big drive against child abuse all over the World, I knew that that was the <u>next</u> thing they were go ...that county still want that load of hundreds of Dollars a month of widow & child support?</u> If he offers to get a job, tries to get a job, I mean even in
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  • HomeARC ML 2469
    ...ou this years ago when all that stink first began to be raised about child abuse! (See "Guard Your Children!" ML #1698.) I said, "They're going to use that! ...old for more than that sometimes. Because it takes <u>years</u> to adopt a child, to prove you're fit parents, you have enough money, you're psychologically
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  • HomeARC ML 2486
    ...by Family members in the U.S., regarding unjustified accusations of child abuse &, as a result, criminal acts by authorities against System parents:)
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  • HomeARC ML 2499
    ...>       <u>17. The public schools were paid on the basis of so many child-days per month</u>. That's why they're so particular about you having an ex ...>       <u>31. (Maria: They might even try to charge you with child abuse for having too many kids living in one house</u>.) Yes, just because they t
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  • HomeARC ML 2514
    ...had to find something else. So he started falsely accusing us of <u>child abuse</u>, when, in fact, we'd never ever do <u>anything</u> to hurt our own dear ...now it's nothing of me because I certainly wasn't any shining example of a child, and I haven't even had that much time to spend with them as a mother, alth
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  • HomeARC ML 2536
    <u>CHILD ABUSE: A FINAL WARNING!</u>--By Maria        Maria #99        DFO ...leased an official statement denying any such wrong-doing. (See the "Child Abuse?!" tract.) We know that the media attacks which harp on those accusations a
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  • HomeARC ML 2546
    ...just rebuke it & say, "It's a lie of the Devil</u>, Lord! I'm <u>Your</u> child & I'm doing <u>Your</u> Work & sacrificing everything for others! This is a .../u>& all that blah! She is not subject to her family history! She is now a child of <u>God</u>, "A <u>new creature</u> in Christ Jesus!--Old things are pass
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  • HomeARC ML 2572
    ...ng over the </u>{\ul \i Home Educator}<u> material about the current child abuse hysteria</u> & the sweeping powers of the Social Services in many countries ...     <u>3.</u> (<u>Realising how big this problem is, & how the child abuse campaigners are on the rampage</u>, not only throughout the U.S., but in di
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  • HomeARC ML 2579
    ...baby is born, she would be judged <u>harshly</u> as a <u>murderer</u> & <u>child abuser</u> & all kinds of things! But judges in the courts, & the governmen ...a World where their parents <u>hate</u> them & don't <u>want</u> them & <u>abuse</u> them! Our first disciples--who are our Family parents now--went through
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  • HomeARC ML 2590
    ...: "Out teens"]</font></small> don't know the horrors of <u>genuine</u> sex abuse that are committed in the <u>World</u>. However, besides the fact that it i ...mention the very serious implications of our adults being accused of child abuse.
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  • HomeARC ML 2614
    ...into that sort of thing, especially with their charges against us of child abuse, they could then start questioning our people, our children, & use some of
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  • HomeARC ML 2619
    ...those so-called charity drives & organisations against pornography & child abuse are nothing but hypocritical, con-man operations to relieve you of your mon ...</u>! When they get into a big media campaign against pornography or child abuse, or <u>whatever</u> it is, it's often just some con-men taking advantage of
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  • HomeARC ML 2646
    ...Lord, have mercy on her. Please. Surely You care for me enough to heal my child. Oh Jesus, Jesus! Please deliver her, Lord, strengthen her. Heal her, Lord. <br>b. To remind us to live right, eat right, get enough rest, & not abuse our bodies.
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  • HomeARC ML 2672
    ...to Him. Remember, He <u>loves</u> you, & whatever He does to you, His Own child, He does it in <u>love</u>.--For your <u>good</u>. So for <u>God's</u> sake ...d</u> for <u>His</u> so-called failures & mistreatment & His neglect & His abuse & His cruelty & His deafness & His unconcern!--Because none of those things
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  • HomeARC ML 2718
    ...uch freedom as did its first generation</u>! It's like giving a <u>growing child</u> a little more liberty at each new stage of development, ushering in a n ...he <u>true Love</u> of <u>God</u>! Can you be trusted with it, or will you abuse it & use your liberty as license to do <u>wrongfully</u> & <u>lustfully</u>
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  • HomeARC ML 2795
    <br><br>       ''<u>Questioning Children about Child Abuse Is Child Abuse!</u>'' ...o-called victims, to find the accused, is real <u>torture</u> & real child abuse in itself!--And I think those questioners, those inquisitors <u>enjoy</u> i
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  • HomeARC ML 2811
    ...that you're <u>innocent</u> until proven <u>guilty</u>, but in these child abuse cases, you're <u>guilty</u> until proven <u>innocent</u>. ...heard of</u>! But I told you when I first started hearing about this child abuse issue almost 9 years ago, "Uh-oh, that's the Devil's campaign & it's going
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  • HomeARC ML 2817
    ...ere, anyhow? I don't have to stay here & put up with all this gaff (verbal abuse, harsh treatment) & all this bad publicity & be counted as one of the bad o <br>       <u>57. Look at all those Child Protection & Community Service agencies, robbing parents of their children
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  • HomeARC ML 2819
    <br><br>       ''<u>Child Abuse Laws</u>'' ...how when I was young & just a boy, the most popular term at that time was "child neglect." My mother used to tell the story about the little boy looking lik
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  • HomeARC ML 2820
    ...gh what's ahead. Our vicious enemies are accusing us of all kinds of child abuse & other crimes, so <u>you</u> could be questioned & falsely charged & face ...e if applied moderately & lovingly, it's now illegal & criminal to spank a child in many countries of the World.--Not to mention our beliefs about the AC Co
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  • HomeARC ML 2835
    ...the other hand they <u>promote</u> & perpetuate the <u>ultimate</u> child abuse, the wholesale <u>murder</u> of the "poor innocents," the millions of unbor ...ex & good normal children, but rather forces them into Sodomy & the sexual abuse of children--which they're now being convicted of all over the World!
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  • HomeARC ML 2836
    ...of <u>rampant Sodomy</u> amongst the <u>priesthood</u> & <u>genuine child abuse</u> of the <u>worst</u> kind, which is now being exposed <u>everywhere</u>. ...parents of all, are falsely, viciously & demonically accused of "<u>child abuse</u>"!
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  • HomeARC ML 2843
    ...ies know it. They've built up a whole big worldwide campaign against child abuse. There was never such a thing before, & I wouldn't be a bit surprised that
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  • HomeARC ML 2847
    ...gh</u>? Is that the same thing? Would they <u>all</u> have poisons? Or one child comes down with measles & then nearly all the children get measles. I just ...flicted with afflictions that are usually a result of my <u>own</u> sins & abuse of my body, so you can't blame that on Him. And I don't blame it on some ge
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  • HomeARC ML 2854
    ...ed the children, & decided that the adults were <u>not</u> guilty of child abuse, so they couldn't get them on <u>that</u> count. So they had to cook up ano
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  • HomeARC ML 2855
    ...urned what used to be regarded as natural affection into grounds for child abuse. ...ungodly forces and they're against us</u>! It's almost unbelievable that a child that I did so much for would turn against me like she did. But she has.
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  • HomeARC ML 2858
    ...he <u>true Love</u> of <u>God</u>! Can you be trusted with it, or will you abuse it & use your liberty as license to do <u>wrongfully</u> & <u>lustfully</u> ...eople. One can read in the papers & hear news stories of <u>real</u> child abuse with children being raped, sodomised, severely beaten, starved, tied up & l
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  • HomeARC ML 2860
    ...he terrible things that the System was doing to them, & the horrible child abuse they were enduring at the hands of the <u>FBI</u>, who were fighting them w ...the World, so why attack <u>him</u>? He had already been cleared of child abuse charges a year before, & the American Constitution is supposed to ensure a
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  • HomeARC ML 2872
    ...g <u>us</u> of what <u>they</u> are the most guilty of! <u>They're</u> the child-abusers! <u>They're</u> the ones abusing the children while they're accusin ...Who has complained to the <u>government</u>? Who has complained to the <u>child agencies</u>? Who is <u>paying</u> them? <u>Who is shipping our enemy witne
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  • HomeARC ML 2873
    <br><br>       ''"<u>Ritual Abuse</u>!"'' ...o accuse <u>us</u> of that, interpreting our religious teaching as "ritual abuse." (Maria: Oh yes, that's just what they were doing in Australia. But they w
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  • HomeARC ML 2874
    ...He's very unfair, unjust & cruel--child abuse! He accuses people of child abuse, & then takes & abuses their children worse than ever.
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  • HomeARC ML 2876
    ...out of those filthy hands! Imagine <u>them</u> accusing <u>us</u> of child abuse! <u>Us</u>! <u>They're</u> the ones who are doing the abusing, not <u>us</u ...." That was the big charge in those days. They hadn't cooked up the "child abuse" thing yet. They said I was encouraging underage teens to commit truancy, i
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  • HomeARC ML 2878
    ...see what's happening! They're going to attack Christians for alleged child abuse & take away their children." (See "Guard Your Children!" ML #1698.) ...y call it psychological abuse, emotional abuse, educational abuse, medical abuse, insufficient socialisation, etc.
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  • HomeARC ML 2882
    <br><br>       ''<u>Child Abuse: The Devil on the Rampage!</u>'' ...the parents. Do you know what they'd do <u>now</u> if a teacher spanked a child? The teacher would get thrown in jail, & the parents would too, for permitt
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  • HomeARC ML 2884
    ...rt, & we do not have many powerful friends to protect us from this kind of abuse of power by the authorities. ...use. This includes home schooling groups, VOCAL chapters (Victims of Child Abuse Laws--an organisation of people who have suffered false allegations), other
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  • HomeARC ML 2888
    ...'t people after <u>them</u>? Why aren't they accusing <u>them</u> of child abuse? It shows who they're after! They're after the <u>Christians</u>, not the H
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  • HomeARC ML 2892A
    ...left them groping in the darkness, having to try to find their own way. "A child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame."--Pro. 29:15. ...s. Our accusers are quick to jump up & down & point the finger & claim we "abuse our children with extremely harsh discipline," when all the while <u>they</
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  • HomeARC ML 2892
    ...left them groping in the darkness, having to try to find their own way. "A child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame."--Pro.29:15. ...s. Our accusers are quick to jump up & down & point the finger & claim we "abuse our children with extremely harsh discipline," when all the while <u>they</
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  • HomeARC ML 2903
    ...us & make them think we were terrible, vile, evil people, & that was child abuse.--And they prepared the public with 10 years of propaganda. ...'&#91;DELETED]'' I can honestly say before God--You know it, Lord--not one child has ever been abused by me! (Maria: Absolutely! That's right!)
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  • HomeARC ML 2907
    <br><br>       ''<u>The Devil & His System Are the Real Child Abusers!</u>'' ...'t give a damn about sex or abuse of children</u>. They know that we don't abuse our children, but <u>they</u> certainly do--whenever they can possibly get
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  • HomeARC ML 2908
    ...the Catholic Church.--And the Catholic Church has really <u>got</u> child abuse, & they know it. <br>       ''6.'' <u>They know we</u> don't have any child abuse.--That's ridiculous! They're just using that as an excuse to hit us hard, b
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  • HomeARC ML 2910
    <br><br>       ''<u>Communists to Child Abusers!</u>'' ...ne who bucked the System was called a Communist</u>. Now they're called <u>child abusers</u>.
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  • HomeARC ML 2911
    ...et him loose. That was just too much for the World to take, too much of an abuse, a human rights violation. That was one thing all the nations could agree o ...ese have moved to Tibet because the rule of only being allowed to have one child does not apply there. Also, their salaries are three times what they are in
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  • HomeARC ML 2913
    ...a God that would have done this to them, who would let her kill her little child. She blames it all on God for not coming in the Rapture. ...isappointed, disillusioned, you may go crazy! You might even kill your own child & wish <u>you</u> were <u>dead</u>!"
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  • HomeARC ML 2917
    ...teacher's fault. It's society's fault. It's your sibling's fault. It's the child abuser's fault. It's your heredity's fault. Your environment's fault, your <br><br>       ''<u>Child Abuse Issue!</u>''
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  • HomeARC ML 2919
    <br>       ''6.'' <u>Note</u>: We use the term "child" broadly here to refer to anyone under the age of 16. ...o grow up in a safe and secure environment, free from abuse or the risk of abuse in any form--physical, emotional or sexual--and free to develop to their fu
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  • HomeARC ML 2921
    ...me--in most cases because the parents are incapacitated by alcohol or drug abuse. ...is bric-a-brac & fancy gold souvenirs.--A huge big empty mansion without a child or a husband. She's had about eight husbands, but now she's living all alon
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  • HomeARC ML 2931
    ...age. In other words, we felt that the benefits of the message on substance abuse would be greater than the detrimental effects of the bad language. ...armour of God & fight His battles? You're still His son, you're still His child, you're still part of His great Family, & you're still part of us.--And you
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  • HomeARC ML 2935
    ...Jesus! That just came to me like a picture. It's so simple, even a little child can understand that. <br><br>       ''<u>Child Abuse Hysteria!</u>''
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  • HomeARC ML 2978
    ...g such freedom as did its first generation</u>! It's like giving a growing child a little more liberty at each new stage of development, a little more compl <br>''       44.'' "<u>Can you be trusted with it, or will you abuse it</u> and use your liberty as license to do wrongfully and lustfully inste
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  • HomeARC ML 3015
    ...s or bullying us or our children. Our lives are free from drug and alcohol abuse, and all the related problems and misery. We have freedom to travel and exp ...our life in the Family and you've known Jesus ever since you were a little child, you likewise are probably the fruit of some little witnesser on the street
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  • HomeARC ML 3016
    <br>''       6.'' <u>Because it is a child custody case, it has been held behind closed doors</u>. No one is allowed i ...to portray the Family as the most horrific environment in which to raise a child, or to live one's life.
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  • HomeARC ML 3050TS
    ...love, I had freedom, I had Jesus' Love so strong in my heart</u>. I was a child of love, I was born to be free like the wind. I was born to live on the san ...most amazing thing is that finally I'm free again</u>! Finally I'm a free child of love! Finally I have that love, that peace! I feel the sun on my face ag
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  • HomeARC ML 3050
    ...love, I had freedom, I had Jesus' Love so strong in my heart</u>. I was a child of love, I was born to be free like the wind. I was born to live on the san ...most amazing thing is that finally I'm free again</u>! Finally I'm a free child of love! Finally I have that love, that peace! I feel the sun on my face ag
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  • HomeARC ML 3056
    ...mental Family Rules'', 5A, page 124.) That GN is the cornerstone regarding child discipline, so please study it and abide by the rules and guidelines therei ...ild? Do you realize that even one person who really goes to work to help a child--by caring, listening, being interested, making himself available, showing
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  • HomeARC ML 3091EX
    ...nning or trying to establish a link of communication with a former mate, a child or an old friend in the Family. ...onest explanation of the child's state to their ex-mate, especially if the child is having behavioral problems.
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  • HomeARC ML 3091
    ...nning or trying to establish a link of communication with a former mate, a child or an old friend in the Family. ...est explanation of the child's state to their ex-mate,'' especially if the child is having behavioral problems.
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  • HomeARC ML 3156
    ...not understand this.'' It certainly could be confusing or saddening for a child if they sincerely pray, asking the Lord to provide a need or desire, and th ...est of theirs has not been granted, why don't you come before Me with your child, or with your children, to ask Me?'' I will answer very clearly for My youn
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  • HomeARC ML 3180
    ...ients and minerals that they need, you're going to have a 5- or 6-year-old child with weak bones that will break easily, a mouth full of cavities, a low sup ...ngs we've been known for is our good, healthy children. God help us not to abuse our bodies or the bodies of our children by being slack in the area of nutr
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  • HomeARC ML 3182
    ...'' If you eat right, sleep right, exercise right and live right, and don't abuse your body by overdoing somehow or other, you'll have the figure the Lord in ...the reality of the world out there and how the big money boys use you and abuse you, how big companies use the little people as pawns in their hands, how t
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  • HomeARC ML 3197
    <br>       ''25. Some Family members have been like a child left to himself, which has brought his mother to shame (Pro.29:15).'' The t ...of the Home in which they reside, providing it is in accordance with the 'Child Discipline Rules' in the 'Fundamental Family Rules.'" (See ''Responsibiliti
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  • HomeARC ML 3205
    ...," when the Lord might lead you <u>not</u> to marry even though you have a child with someone, hearing from the Lord about personal situations, single FGA m ...I'm not in love with?" ''The idea of marrying someone for the sake of your child, on the strength of the Lord's will and His leading through prophecy and th
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  • HomeARC ML 3209
    ...al beauty, that additional glow that gets brighter and brighter with every child she bears. Because of her years of yieldedness in fulfilling her purpose as ...more of the freedom that you long for--for she will know that you will not abuse it, but will come home again safely to her arms and will love her the more
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  • HomeARC ML 0143A
    ...FORCE TO ACTUALLY DISCOURAGE AND EVEN PREVENT VIOLENCE! Use it!--But don't abuse it! But there's no excuse for your just letting these people walk all over <br> 109. WHY THEN SHOULD YOU BE ASHAMED OR DENY THAT YOU'RE A CHILD OF GOD? Even the world gives you more credit than that!--One of the news ar
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  • HomeARC ML 0150
    ...or poles or posts or signs or gas pumps, or somebody's bicycle or a little child or something else you couldn't possibly see, even with two rear-view mirror ...s considereth his beast"! Have a heart and take care of it! Use it!--Don't abuse it! With good care, it'll last a lot longer!
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  • HomeARC ML 0155
    ...r the Lord's Glory! Don't knock it--But use it!--And ''certainly ''don't ''abuse ''it! ...ter than money! It's your reputation for being honest and trustworthy as a Child of God--Someone who can be depended on to keep his word--not a liar, a chea
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  • HomeARC ML 0258
    ...g and eating the wrong foods. And, of course, a lot of people in the world abuse their bodies by overdrinking or over-smoking and over-doctoring and over-dr ...u've got enough money to pay the doctor for it, you can get it. ''It's not abuse if you do it through legal channels and pay the System's prices.'' My mothe
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  • HomeARC ML 0302C
    ...G SUCH FREEDOM AS DID ITS FIRST GENERATION! ''It's like giving a'' growing child'' a little more liberty at each new stage of development, a little more com <br><br>'' 7. CAN YOU BE TRUSTED WITH IT, OR WILL YOU ABUSE IT'' and use your liberty as license to do'' wrongfully ''and ''lustfully''
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  • HomeARC ML 0313
    ...ave ''faith'' to ''trust'' Him that ''He knows best!--''It's just like a ''child'' has to trust a ''parent'' even though he doesn't understand ''why'' he mu ...4. ''HE'S GOTTA TRY TO MAKE ALL THE ORGANS FUNCTION PROPERLY EVEN WHEN YOU ABUSE THEM'' with the wrong food and contaminants!--And He's gotta try to make yo
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  • HomeARC ML 0317
    ...mple of permissible and commendable criminal action against a defenseless "child" and supposed proof of our own guilt! ...stroy them if they do not change! ''Truth'' is the God-given duty of every Child of God and His Prophets!
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  • HomeARC ML 0330B
    ...possibly get an answer before her personal emergency is long past and the child has already survived it by several months!--Or has ''not ''survived it, as ...anything whatsoever excepted her'' resting ''and ''writing.'' She must not abuse her weakened body and drain her little strength with the strain of travel,
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  • HomeARC ML 0353
    ...D WE OUGHT TO TAKE CARE OF THEM!</u> It's a shame to abuse them, but we do abuse them a lot of times with a lot of harmful stuff and by behaving in a way th ...</u> You have to go a lot on what a baby likes and will take because every child is different and has different tastes. Your body knows what it needs.
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  • HomeARC ML 0598
    ...>AND THE BROTHER SHALL DELIVER UP THE BROTHER TO DEATH, AND THE FATHER THE CHILD</u>''. &#91;ALERT! CHECK FOR SANITIZATION: "…"] And ye shall be hated of a ...ithin</u> the Children of God, because we do not permit the illegal use or abuse of drugs in any form in our homes or amongst our members. We seldom even ta
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  • Dateline NBC: A Child Lost
    ===A Child Lost=== ...[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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  • Stars and Stripes: Kadena spouse asks AAFES to pull ‘Family’ videos
    ...ommitted suicide because he couldn’t deal with what was done to him as a child.” ...ion]] and have committed many instances of [[sexual abuse]] and [[physical abuse]] as well.”
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  • Los Angeles Times: Former cult member assesses damage in 'Children of God'
    ...ing his actions: As the victim of repeated [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual abuse]] in the name of the Family, he was bent on getting what revenge he could. ...his film, some consider it a happy time, and one woman, who details sexual abuse at a very young age, shrugs it off as a utopian experiment that didn't quit
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  • Save The Children's Project "Go On"
    ...expertise are as skilled social workers, with many years experience within child-care, Civil Service and local administrations ...s, psychologists, psychiatrists, social-workers, school-leaders, teachers, child-care workers, doctors, health centres, jobcentres, Social Security offices,
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  • José María Baamonde
    ...f her experiences growing up in the organization and the [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]] and medical neglect she suffered in a Family [[Home]] run by [[Susan Clai ...d]] two years ago, was quoted as though she were alive, making [[:Category:Child Abduction|kidnapping]] charges and demanding the Family return her children
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  • Cult Killer: The Rick Rodriguez Story
    .../><br /> 29:40<br /><br />'''Narrator: ''' Rick Rodriguez is not the only child born into The Family driven to suicide or to fatally overdose on drugs. Ove ...in 1986 Rick's mother, Karen Zerby, was responsible for introducing strict child protection rules. <br /><br />'''Credits '''<br /><br />'''Narrator: Juliet
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  • The Scotsman: Family business of abuse and murder
    ==TV Review: Family business of abuse and murder== ...e damage was real. But why exactly was he able to live with the abuse as a child and not as an adult? And how likely is it that taking drugs made recovery t
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  • Western Morning News: Killer's diary lifts lid on bizarre cult
    ...ck Rodriguez was a victim, the result of prolonged child [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]] at the hands of his mother and her extended family. Rick grew up at the h ...ophilia]], [[:Category:Incest|incest]] and [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual abuse]].
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  • Jules - Lying Lips - The Lies Family Leaders Have Told About Ricky
    ...penis [among many other previously listed incidents]. Exposure of a young child to a sexual activity of that kind is in my judgment utterly deplorable. Tho ...out 12 or 13 on several occasions contemplated suicide. He was a disturbed child. Then Techi her daughter began to manifest difficulties symptomatic of some
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  • Pray, Obey and Prepare
    accountable. They are in essence challenging Me, testing Me, like a child might 131. They're trying to round up as many alleged "abuse" stories as possible to
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  • Abi Freeman
    ...06 Freeman was arrested in Britain on suspicion of child [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]]. She was later released on bail. On October 5, 2006, the Crown Prosecuti
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  • BBC Outlook: Abuse within The Family
    ==Abuse within "The Family"== ...dia.xfamily.org/audio/press/bbc-outlook-2006-09-18-abuse-in-the-family.mp3 Abuse within "The Family] (25:55, 4.4MB)
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  • O'Reilly Factor: Sex Cult Center of Court Case
    ...media.xfamily.org/video/tv/fox-oreilly-2006-10-11.wmv The O'Reilly Factor: Child Custody Dispute in San Diego] &mdash; <small>(4:49, 37.2MB, WMV)</small> ...n [[:Category:Sexuality|education]], which is a big concern for me with my child. And also, they don't believe in having a lot of medical attention for the
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  • 2007
    ...profit organization established to protect children from [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]] in [[cult]]s, support those who seek justice for crimes committed against * [[Orange County Weekly: Spare the Child]] &mdash; 2007-05-31
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  • News of The World: The cruel legacy of Britain's most sinister cult
    ...chilling truth about a [[cult]] infamous for wife-swapping, rape and child abuse. One child is from her marriage to US commune leader James Bennett who helped lure her
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  • Variety: Slamdance screening ends in melee
    ...accused of [[:Category:Pedophilia|pedophilia]] and child [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]]. The group's leader<ref>Rodriguez was never the leader of the cult. Howe
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  • Modesto Bee: Stan State prof suspected of cult link
    ...urer believed to have been part of a [[cult]] accused of [[:Category:Child Abuse|abusing children]] and [[Flirty Fishing|prostituting]] women. ...e taken part in prostitution, sexual acts between adults and children, and child pornography.
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  • Modesto Bee: Christian group founded in '60s Jesus movement
    ...s]] and [[France]]. France banned the group in 1978 amid charges of sexual abuse. ...were sent for discipline and schooling, where she said mental and physical abuse took place.
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  • ABC News 20/20: Revenge Against Religious Sect
    ...ecause of it. No, they were active enablers and active participants in our abuse. ...me on many occasions throughout my childhood. I remember particular sexual abuse when I was 9 years old. It was on the floor in the studio, and I had to per
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  • Montel Williams: Escaping A Cult
    ...ily.” He and other children say they suffered years of [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]].] ...tegory:Psychological Abuse|emotional]] and [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual abuse]].
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  • Gerald P. Curran
    ...fender Registry - Gerald Curran] &mdash; 2007-02-09</ref> As a convicted child sex offender, he is also prohibited from being in certain places where chil ...r [[MyConclusion.com]] in which he wrote that "these allegations [of child abuse] are lies!" and did not mention that, while in The Family, Curran had sexua
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  • ABC News: Primetime: The Outsiders
    ...r the children of the Children of God, a secret world of [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]] and shame. (OC) He was supposed to be the ultimate insider. The child who had been anointed to someday lead the infamous Children of God. A relig
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  • GMTV:News Hour: Children of God
    ...God]] allegedly encourages members to [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexually]] abuse young children. We’ll hear one woman’s story and we’ll hear from the ...rn into the Children of God and says she suffered 12 years of gross sexual abuse before escaping. [[Kristina Jones|Kristina]] is here with us in the studio
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  • LA Daily News: Man is arrested in swastika case
    ...ts to Weiss' office in the past week to talk about child [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]] prevention and concerns about a religious organization called [[The Famil
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  • Jane Magazine: Orgies and Prophecies
    ...ky Rodriguez video|video]] that blasted the cult and its [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]] tactics. ...l Abuse|sexual abuse]], murder and [[:Category:Suicides|suicide]]. But the abuse that occurred within the Children of God runs much deeper than that one hor
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  • Daily Mail: Enslaved by the cult of sex...for 25 years
    ...na Jones|Kristina]] and [[Juliana Buhring|Juliana]] Jones were [[:Category:Abuse|abused]] from the age of three. Torn from their parents, their childhood wa ...starts innocently enough - I am six years old, a small, slim, dark-haired child dancing to pipe music for the camera. But this is no ordinary family movie.
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  • Orange County Weekly: Spare the Child
    ==Spare the Child== ...cies led his flock down a path of debauchery, authoritarian rule and child abuse. Some members delved further into the abyss each year, eventually leading t
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  • Madison: We were forced to obey: Life Inside The Children of God
    It was time for Rodriguez to take his final stand against the sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of his own mother, [[Karen Zerby]], during his chi ...add their voices to the others who claim to have suffered horrific sexual abuse while growing up in the Children of God. “From birth we were conditioned
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  • New York Times: What’s on Tonight
    ...group that was repeatedly accused of child [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual abuse]], but she’s not talking.
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  • Bristol Evening Post: Suffer little children
    ...hemy. But what's even worse is that it's being performed by a six-year-old child. ...t to understand how loving parents could collude in such [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]].
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  • Western Daily Press: Free of cult's clutches to tell their harrowing story
    ...hemy. But what's even worse is that it's being performed by a six-year-old child. ...t to understand how loving parents could collude in such [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]].
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  • Western Daily Press: Charismatic leader who preached paedophilia
    ...embers, and subjected his own daughter and granddaughter to extreme sexual abuse. Central to his beliefs was his "[[Law of Love]]". Berg believed that every ...the cult to officially renounce adult-child sex, though survivors say the abuse continued in many cases, albeit more secretively.
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  • San Jose Mercury News: The offspring of 'Jesus Freaks'
    Rodriguez, the first child conceived through "flirty fishing," was the natural son of Berg's common-la ...iguez did devour his enemies: He left the cult, but tormented by a life of abuse, could not make a life for himself. Driven by rage, he vilified his mother
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  • Limerick Post: Castleconnell area was base for child sex cult, claims victim
    ==Castleconnell area was base for child sex cult, claims victim== ...organisation called [[RISE International]] set up to protect children from abuse in cults.
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  • Limerick Post: Castleconnell in cult claim
    ...organisation called [[RISE International]] set up to protect children from abuse in cults. See [[Limerick Post: Castleconnell area was base for child sex cult, claims victim|full story]] page 12
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  • Nottingham Evening Post: Sixties cult exerted a powerful influence
    It denies that its members engage in adult-child sex or [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]] of any kind but it remains [[:Category:Secrecy|secretive]] and isolated. ...is now a safe environment for children but highlighted concerns about past abuse.
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  • Nottingham Evening Post: Woman tells of escape from cult
    ...es|practised]] [[prostitution]] and systematically [[:Category:Child Abuse|abuse children]]
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  • Nottingham Evening Post: Cult pictures of innocence
    ...ose followers practiced [[prostitution]] and [[:Category:Child Abuse|child abuse]], and made [[:Category:Pornography|pornography]]. ...policy of sexual liberation and shared love gave his followers licence to abuse the cult's children.
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  • Press coverage by publication title
    * [[Arizona Daily Star: Stabber's friends blame decades of abuse in sex cult]] &mdash; 2005-01-12 * [[Associated Press: Mexican groups accuse U.S.-based cult of sexual abuse]] &mdash; 1997-03-26
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  • Arizona Daily Wildcat: Underside of cult life emerges
    ...murder took place. The tragedy occurred after Rodriguez suffered years of abuse at the hands of his father and other cult members, including Smith. ...Abuse|molestation]], mind control and [[:Category:Physical Abuse|physical abuse]].
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  • San Francisco Chronicle: Review: Fear, sex are driving forces within Children of God cult
    ...:Leaders|leaders]], his parents, for years of [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sex abuse]] he says he and many other children suffered. And he made a [[Ricky Rodrig ...]], in his Chronicle series "Children of a Lesser God," and his book about child survivors of cults, "Following Our Bliss."
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  • Globe and Mail: Coming to terms with an abusive cult upbringing
    ...[[:Category:Physical Abuse|physical]] and [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual abuse]] of the children. Since those allegations first emerged, much of the Famil '''The Family made soft-core child-sex tapes and took inappropriate pictures of kids in sexual situations –
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  • ABC News Nightline: Faith Matters: The Tragic Legacy of the Children of God
    ...tands a story of charismatic Christianity, [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual abuse]] and revenge. In the late 1960s, David Berg, the self-proclaimed prophet a ...ated free love among his disciples, including [[:Category:Pedophilia|adult-child sex]].
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  • KFMB-TV: Dulzura Charity Funded Accused Child Molester
    ==Dulzura Charity Funded Accused Child Molester== ...rg/video/tv/KFMB-TV-2005-02-10.avi KFMB-TV: Dulzura Charity Funded Accused Child Molester] ''''' <small>(0:03:52.665, 10.5MB, xVid AVI)</small> &mdash; 200
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  • KFMB-TV: Cult Member Responds To Abuse Allegations
    ==Cult Member Responds To Abuse Allegations== ...s://media.xfamily.org/video/tv/kfmb-2005-02-11.avi Cult Member Responds To Abuse Allegations] ''''' <small>(0:03:55.935, 10.6MB, xVid AVI)</small> &mdash;
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  • KFMB-TV: Religious Sect Has Ties to Two Local Charities
    ...gious sect who said he was [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexually abused]] as a child. ...ays out his plan to get revenge for years of sexual abuse he suffered as a child. On January 8, Rodriguez stabbed 51-year-old Angela Smith to death in his T
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  • KFMB-TV: People Raised In Sex Cult Gather For Memorial
    ...th|suicide]] that brought back painful memories of child [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]] inside the cult. ...r Smith - as revenge, he said - for years of sexual abuse he suffered as a child growing up in The Family.
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  • KFMB-TV: FBI Launches Investigation Into Sex Cult
    LaMattery says teenagers were subjected to harsh discipline and abuse at some of the camps. ...hildren in [[1986]], and apologized to the victims. Leaders also say child abuse was not widespread.
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  • KFMB-TV: 'The Family' Religious Sect Has Ties To San Diego
    ...y – even among children. Many ex-members now say child [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]] was widespread in the group during the [[1970s]] and [[1980s]]. ...n in [[1986]], and apologized to the victims. Leaders also deny that child abuse was widespread.
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  • KFMB-TV: Judge Orders Site Inspection of Sex Cult
    ...:Sexuality|sex]] [[cult]]. The order comes as part of a bitter [[:Category:Child custody|custody]] battle over a four-year-old boy being raised in the relig ...ocuments, Kyle’s mother writes, “The Family has zero-tolerance towards abuse… I would never expose our son to such things.”
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  • KFMB-TV: Judge Denies Motion To Ban Media From Sex Cult Case
    A [[:Category:Child custody|custody]] battle over a four-year-old boy whose mother is a member ...op using the word ‘cult,’ because that is irrelevant. The issue is the child and the mother and the father, nothing more,” said Angie Staughton’s at
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  • KFMB-TV: Father Wins Custody Of 5-Year-Old In Sex Cult Case
    A Serra Mesa father has won a long, bitter [[:Category:Child custody|custody]] battle over his son. He claimed his ex-wife had been rais ...ge has ordered inspections of the commune and psychological reports on the child. He wanted to know if the boy was being sexually abused.
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  • KFMB-TV: La Jolla Foundation Donated to Charity with Ties to Sex Cult
    ...sexuality as an expression of God’s love. The practice led to widespread abuse of children in the cult, according to former members. The group changed its Current cult leaders deny that child sex abuse was widespread, even though the organization formally banned all sexual con
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  • Ireland's Issues: Not Without My Sister
    '''Growing up in a cult, a true story of abuse and survival, Jennifer May reports.''' ...e|sexual]] and [[:Category:Psychological Abuse|psychological]] [[:Category:Abuse|abuses]] she and her siblings suffered within the confines of the [[Childre
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  • CNN Anderson Cooper 360: Twisted Cult
    ...us both Berg and Ricky's mom, who Berg called his queen, encouraged adult/child sex. In fact, they wrote about it. ...R, "JESUS FREAKS":''' It was an experiment in this strange kind of twisted child-rearing philosophy of David Berg.
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  • CNN Anderson Cooper 360: Young man's suicide blamed on mother's cult
    ...ry:Pedophilia|adult-child sex]]. More often than not, they say, the chosen child was Rodriguez, the son of Karen Zerby, who Berg called his queen. Zerby bec "Jesus Freaks" author [[Don Lattin]] says Berg "wanted his child to embrace sexuality, to be a sexual being as an infant and growing up."
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  • CNN Newsroom: Born into a cult
    ...o a cult. His childhood was a nightmare of [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual abuse]]. His life consumed by a need for revenge. ...us both Berg and Ricky's mom, who Berg called his queen, encouraged adult/child sex. In fact, they wrote about it.
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  • KGTV: Former Members of Children of God Speak Out
    SAN DIEGO -- It's not often that a [[:Category:Child custody|child custody]] case is followed closely by the 10News Investigative Team, but a ...rmally known as [[Children of God]], where [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual abuse]] allegations are central to the litigation.
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  • Flirty Fishing in the Children of God:The Sexual Body as a Site of Proselytization and Salvation
    ...ted times of fear, coercion, sexual misconduct, emotional abuse, and child abuse (indeed, Chancellor’s book confronts most of the controversies and proble ...f religion and the body, McGuire points to the body as a potential site of abuse (McGuire, 1990: 284), and her observation is apt here. Although McGuire doe
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  • Sunday Vision: Living by the law of love
    Others still refer to it as a [[:Category:Pedophilia|child sex cult]], although the group asserts that any sexual incidents between ad ...iving arrangements. With this biblical model, anybody can be a father to a child.
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  • Weekly Observer: Cult Activity in Uganda?
    The book talks of the cult's glorification of [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|rape]], masturbation, [[:Category:Pedophilia|paedophilia]], [[:Category:Inc ...punishment in form of detention, hard labour and violent [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]], until the 'rebellious spirit' is broken.
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  • A Response To My Father
    ...adults, without knowing who they are and their background, is putting the child at instant risk. ''“People adopt children. A child needs both a mother and a father and for fathers to just get up and leave i
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  • Los Angeles Daily News: Lessons to be learned when cults make news
    ...ailing Rodriguez's death and the group's well-known [[:Category:Pedophilia|child sex]] [[:Category:Practices|practices]], Cooper said, "Well, that has nothi ...sts? That isn't actually Catholicism. The institutionalized and systematic abuse of lower and lowest classes? That isn't actually Hinduism. We even go so fa
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  • Charleston Gazette: Book chronicles dark outcome of end-time cult
    Rodriguez, the first child conceived through "flirty fishing," was the natural son of Berg's common-la ...iguez did devour his enemies: He left the cult, but tormented by a life of abuse, could not make a life for himself. Driven by rage, he vilified his mother
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  • Times Education Supplement: Cult watch
    ...realised I was lucky though because normally the first a parent knows of a child's involvement is when they disappear." Judith Marmont, a teacher and child protection officer at Laura's school, said that staff had been worried by t
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  • Augusta Chronicle: Book details grim abuses suffered by cult's children
    Mr. Rodriguez, the first child conceived through "flirty fishing," was the natural son of Mr. Berg's commo ...iguez did devour his enemies: He left the cult, but tormented by a life of abuse, could not make a life for himself. Driven by rage, he vilified his mother
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  • An Open Letter of Apology from Maria and Peter
    our zero tolerance policy regarding any form of abuse of minors. The Charter has been, and continues to be, the Family’s govern ...s of child sexual abuse that involve sexual contact between an adult and a child were made an excommunicable offense, are true and correct.
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  • The Family’s History, Policies, and Beliefs Regarding Sex
    '''45.''' '''By late 1977, Dad and Mama learned of widespread abuse of authority being perpetrated by some of the existing "Chain" leadership,' ...purpose of these accounts was to relay practical lessons on child-rearing, child development, early schooling, etc., to the many new parents in the Family a
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  • Sunday Vision: Talk Back: Our dad lied about us
    ...adults, without knowing who they are and their background, is putting the child at instant risk. '''“People adopt children. A child needs both a mother and a father and for fathers to just get up and leave i
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  • Sunday Vision: Haunted by a dark past
    ...He said that the Family apologised for the [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual abuse]] and such mistakes will not be repeated ...'' ...t former members insist that the leadership promoted the [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]] of children.
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  • Macau Closer Look: For God's Sake
    ...us sect operated brutal brainwashing camps in [[Macau]] where child sexual abuse was common.''' ...egory:Psychological Abuse|mental]] and [[:Category:Physical Abuse|physical abuse]] of children, [[Sharing|partner swapping]], [[Come-union|orgies]] and at t
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  • Macau Closer Look: The Gospel according to Mo
    to track him down and detain him for inciting child abuse and other 1978 due to bad publicity liked to promiscuous sex and child abuse.
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  • The Age: Moments In Time - May 1992: Children of sect members are seized in dawn raids
    ...es, their case quickly became a public relations nightmare for the state's child protection services as civil libertarians denounced the raids as an attack ...o ordinary schools. The sect's lawyers said there was no immediate risk of abuse and the issue was "philosophical".
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  • BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour: Life after living in a sect
    ...way section of the Mormon Church in Texas. It’s likely to be the largest child-welfare investigation in the history of the state. Earlier this year, Jane ...re abusive people from the word go, it’s because they were programmed to abuse. That’s the important thing. Otherwise, it’s very difficult for young p
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  • BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour: Growing up in a cult
    ...thors of "[[Not Without My Sister]]," which tells of their years of sexual abuse and their eventual escape. What does Celeste remember of her childhood? ...ht as right. And we would obviously hear bad stories and in these stories, child care manuals, [[Story of Davidito|photographs]] of [[Ricky Rodriguez|the p
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  • Michael Hawron
    ==Alleged child abuse== ...s as teenagers born and raised within the group began to rebel against the abuse and isolation imposed upon them by the cult's structure, beliefs and practi
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