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[[Image:Marc, claire - dc.jpg|thumb|150px|Lonnie Davis with Susan Claire Borowik]] | [[Image:Marc, claire - dc.jpg|thumb|150px|Lonnie Davis with Susan Claire Borowik]] | ||
'''Lonnie Davis''' ( | '''Lonnie Davis''' (U.S. citizen; aliases include '''Marc''') is a [[The Family International|Family International]] spokesperson or media representative. Together with his wife [[Susan Claire Borowick]], he is a media representatives for The Family in North America. | ||
On numerous occasions, Lonnie Davis has been denounced as an abuser of children and teenagers on ex-member Web sites. | |||
In "''[http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~skent/Linkedfiles/cog_brainwashing.htm Brainwashing and Re-Indoctrination Programs in the Children of God/The Family]''", [[Stephen Kent]] and Deana Hall describe at great length an incident in which Lonnie Davis adminstered a "particularly severe and degrading beating" to a 13-year-old boy in front of more than 100 people. Kent and Hall wrote: | |||
<blockquote style="padding: 1em; border: 2px dotted green;">The person who inflicted it, according to our sources, was a Family leader (for whom we use the pseudonym, Mickey), who currently contributes to the group's public relations efforts towards scholars and the United States Congress (Bainbridge, 1997: 228).</blockquote> | |||
In [http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~skent/Linkedfiles/cog_brainwashing.htm | |||
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The person who inflicted it, according to our sources, was a Family leader (for whom we use the pseudonym, Mickey), who currently contributes to the group's public relations efforts towards scholars and the United States Congress (Bainbridge, 1997: 228). | |||
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In an interview with Kent, the victim described the severe injuries inflicted on him by Lonnie Davis: | In an interview with Kent, the victim described the severe injuries inflicted on him by Lonnie Davis: | ||
<blockquote style="padding: 1em; border: 2px dotted green;"> | <blockquote style="padding: 1em; border: 2px dotted green;">He spanked me so hard that I had bruises on my butt and legs that were so hard they started to thicken up...and it bruised and it thickened. It was like really thick and hard, and I remember I'd have to sleep on my stomach...and any time I'd touch my butt to anything it stung. I couldn't sit down during the day 'cause it hurt so bad. I could barely move my left leg, because, like, the bruises were so tight it, like, hurt. I felt like I was gonna rip my skin or something. And I went back to solitary confinement... (Kent Interview with Hendricks, 1995: 24-25).</blockquote> | ||
He spanked me so hard that I had bruises on my butt and legs that were so hard they started to thicken up...and it bruised and it thickened. It was like really thick and hard, and I remember I'd have to sleep on my stomach...and any time I'd touch my butt to anything it stung. I couldn't sit down during the day 'cause it hurt so bad. I could barely move my left leg, because, like, the bruises were so tight it, like, hurt. I felt like I was gonna rip my skin or something. And I went back to solitary confinement... (Kent Interview with Hendricks, 1995: 24-25). | |||
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==External | ==External link== | ||
*[http://www.movingon.org/article.asp?sID=1&Cat=10&ID=69 Lonnie Davis (Marc): My Jumbo Story] — By Jules | *[http://www.movingon.org/article.asp?sID=1&Cat=10&ID=69 Lonnie Davis (Marc): My Jumbo Story] — By Jules, on MovingOn.org | ||
[[Category:Abusers]] | [[Category:Abusers]][[Category:Current and Former Members]] | ||
[[Category:Current and Former Members]] | |||
Revision as of 00:50, 12 July 2005
Lonnie Davis (U.S. citizen; aliases include Marc) is a Family International spokesperson or media representative. Together with his wife Susan Claire Borowick, he is a media representatives for The Family in North America.
On numerous occasions, Lonnie Davis has been denounced as an abuser of children and teenagers on ex-member Web sites.
In "Brainwashing and Re-Indoctrination Programs in the Children of God/The Family", Stephen Kent and Deana Hall describe at great length an incident in which Lonnie Davis adminstered a "particularly severe and degrading beating" to a 13-year-old boy in front of more than 100 people. Kent and Hall wrote:
The person who inflicted it, according to our sources, was a Family leader (for whom we use the pseudonym, Mickey), who currently contributes to the group's public relations efforts towards scholars and the United States Congress (Bainbridge, 1997: 228).
In an interview with Kent, the victim described the severe injuries inflicted on him by Lonnie Davis:
He spanked me so hard that I had bruises on my butt and legs that were so hard they started to thicken up...and it bruised and it thickened. It was like really thick and hard, and I remember I'd have to sleep on my stomach...and any time I'd touch my butt to anything it stung. I couldn't sit down during the day 'cause it hurt so bad. I could barely move my left leg, because, like, the bruises were so tight it, like, hurt. I felt like I was gonna rip my skin or something. And I went back to solitary confinement... (Kent Interview with Hendricks, 1995: 24-25).
External link
- Lonnie Davis (Marc): My Jumbo Story — By Jules, on MovingOn.org
