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==Refusing treatment, cult member dies==<br />
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[[:Category:Press:Calgary Herald|Calagary Herald]]/[[1980]]-03-17<br />
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By Crosbie Cotton<br><br />
Herald staff writer<br />
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[[Children of God]] [[cult]] member [[Shelley Bellavitti]] died at Holy Cross Hospital Sunday after refusing treatment for cancer which doctors say probably could have been cured.<br />
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The 28-year-old mother ot three, and her husband Mario, had decided to forego medical treatment and wait for God'a miracle to heal her instead.<br />
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She entered hospital five days before her death and accepted only pain killers from the staff.<br />
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"I can't say we did wrong, that we failed the Lord with our stupid decision," Mario, also a cult member, said shortly after his wife's death.<br />
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"I don't regret what we did. even if it looks like God failed us," added Mario. 27. who had been married to her for five years.<br />
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The couple's two boys and a girl are all under four years old.<br />
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Doctors described her case as "extremely frustrating" and said chemotherapy treatments could have added years to her hie or even cured Shelley, who joined Children of God a decade ago.<br />
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The sect, headed by [[David Berg]], also known as David Moses, gained international prominence for its sexual promiscuity, which included [[Flirty Fishing|using cult members as prostitutes]] to raise money and attract new members.<br />
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[[:Category:Legal Action|Investigations by several police forces around the world]] has shown that extensive [[brainwashing]] techniques. such as isolation, severing family ties, solitary confinement fanque, tension and fear, have been, used by Children of God leaders to attract "converts".<br />
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Today. Mario said he was still awaiting a miracle He believes God can return his wife's "spirit' to her dead body<br />
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