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• Complete Judgment of Lord Justice Ward
  ...ing persecution has been the action taken by the authorities in Argentina, Australia, Spain, France, and by me. Persecution was the main matter of discussion at #Another transcript prepared for Australia included an apparently enthusiastic JG telling the Australian Court how hap
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• Children of God. Family of Love. The Family
  ...ore open and more public places. The group owned its own escort service in Australia and probably elsewhere as well, and it was not unusual for cult women to be ...it known that the cult provided sexual services to one of their lawyers in Australia in the early nineties, so we know that this practice was still going on the
  166 KB (29,530 words) - 00:35, 31 July 2012
• Marie Claire: "Killing Myself is the Only Way Out of the Cult"
  [[:Category:Press:Marie Claire|Marie Claire]] Australia; Lisa Dabscheck, [[2005]]-04-19 So far, despite investigations and court cases in [[Australia]], the [[US]], [[UK]], [[Argentina]], [[Brazil]], [[Peru]], [[Venezuela]],
  19 KB (3,294 words) - 03:25, 1 September 2008
• Los Angeles Times: A True Conversion?
  ...lia, where authorities swooped down on six Family communes near Sydney and Melbourne last May and picked up 142 youngsters who were allegedly sexually abused. ...tion witness admitted that there was no direct evidence of such abuse. The Melbourne case is pending.
  19 KB (3,005 words) - 09:01, 19 November 2005
• FSM 352
  was during the time he visited Australia during the court case, when he had the meetings with the lawyers in Melbourne. I was very impressed then at how willing
  123 KB (23,099 words) - 15:15, 5 June 2005
• New York Times: Argentines Say a Sex Cult Enslaved 268 Children
  In May [[1992]] the police in Sydney and Melbourne, [[Australia]], took 140 children between the ages of 2 and 16 into protective custody. ...s no connection between their investigation and those in Spain, France and Australia. But they said that as the cases proceeded, there was the possibility of sh
  6 KB (938 words) - 15:06, 8 December 2005
• Manly Daily: Colony Comes to Town
  ...who came from America last year to help establish The Children of God in [[Australia]]. Colonies are now in Kings Cross, in Melbourne, on the Gold Coast of Queensland and for the past few weeks, in Manly. For
  6 KB (1,038 words) - 04:58, 25 July 2005
• Sydney Morning Herald: The Family v. The Rock
  ...t goes on in the sect, 130 of whom live communally in huge, rented houses. Australia-wide the sect claims about 1,000 members, and 7,000 worldwide. A simultaneous raid took place in Melbourne, the catalyst for the timing of the NSW swoop. It was the culmination of fi
  15 KB (2,497 words) - 08:23, 30 July 2005
• Sydney Morning Herald: For God's sake
  As a similar raid was taking place in Melbourne amid fears 19 sect families there might abscond, the NSW crime and welfare ...ersity lecturers. The children's magistrate became a missionary in Western Australia.
  14 KB (2,396 words) - 08:24, 30 July 2005
• Sydney Morning Herald: The Family's Planning
  ...or problem for the 140-strong Family in Sydney (there are 400 members in [[Australia]] and 3,000 worldwide). ...children arrested en masse and still in detention or before the courts in Melbourne, [[France]] and [[Argentina]].
  11 KB (1,738 words) - 08:25, 30 July 2005
• The Age: Family's leader sends top aide to secret talks
  ...orld leader of the religious group [[The Family|the Family]] has visited [[Australia]] secretly twice in the past 18 months - unbeknown to many members of the l ...isit two months ago, [[Peter Amsterdam]] met lawyers for the Family in the Melbourne Children's Court child-protection case.
  5 KB (818 words) - 08:26, 30 July 2005
• The Age: Moses David's children
  ...ontext quotations were being used by opponents of the sect to attack it. A Melbourne leader of the sect said it was diametrically opposed to child [[:Category:A ...s. This figure is now thought to have doubled, including perhaps 1000 in [[Australia]], most of them children. Sexual freedom had begun to be advocated early in
  21 KB (3,580 words) - 01:12, 31 May 2007
• The Sunday Age: Meet The Family
  ...around the group's country property. He is now a 23-year-old missionary in Melbourne and India and father of an 18-month-old girl. "It's made me more compassion We are drinking tea in Sam and Michelle's house in outer Melbourne and talking about growing up as a member of The Family. "It was like the be
  21 KB (3,884 words) - 08:31, 30 July 2005
• 60 Minutes Australia: Sinful Acts
  [[:Category:Press:60 Minutes|60 Minutes Australia]]/[[2005]]-10-16 ...16f472da-8735-42a8-b7a3-91d85c9835c5&p=aunews_au60minutes&t=s29 60 Minutes Australia: Sinful Acts]
  13 KB (2,480 words) - 03:33, 1 September 2008
• Sunday Age: Director worries for children
  ...on the group believe children within the sect are sent to "teen camps" in Australia and overseas when they reach the age of 15. The children were returned to five sect homes around Melbourne on several conditions, including that 48 hours notice in writing is given i
  7 KB (1,268 words) - 11:51, 10 November 2005
• The Age: Taxi! Hailing the drama of a lifetime
  In [[Australia]], as elsewhere. the most exotic species come out at night. It is then tha ...ving down the coast of New South Wales to Sydney to catch a last flight to Melbourne. And the young man at the wheel, the whole 6 ft. 5 in. of him, never stopp
  10 KB (1,971 words) - 07:19, 30 November 2005
• Australia
  ...ily publications]] the [[Children of God]] first established a presence in Australia in September [[1972]]. Australia is under the [[PACRO]]-area leadership. Its local leaders include the follo
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• The Love Prophet and the Children of God
  ...squads are on the move in [[Melbourne, Australia|Melbourne]] and [[Sydney, Australia|Sydney]]. At dawn, the raids begin.
  49 KB (8,719 words) - 02:14, 13 March 2008
• Sydney Morning Herald: Drug dealer sees the light, camera, action
  ...tralia award, by an international panel of judges at a black-tie dinner in Melbourne. ...and I got involved in distributing Turkish hashish smuggled in through the Melbourne waterfront. It came in big blocks with a gold seal on it, and we used to ca
  6 KB (1,035 words) - 07:04, 17 May 2006
• Sydney Morning Herald: 140 Kids Grabbed In Raid On Sect
  ...dy following a series of dramatic dawn raids by police on homes in Sydney, Melbourne and country Victoria yesterday. ...Hill while another 70 were taken from two houses in Victoria - one in the Melbourne suburb of Paton Hill.
  4 KB (658 words) - 07:58, 18 May 2006

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