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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 ...r those who have been in The Family for less than six months is forbidden. Sexual activity among teens must wait until 18 years of age, and then it is allowa
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• Hollywood Reporter: HBO Documentary Focuses on Cult Kids
  ...about the [[Children of God]], an apocalyptic [[cult]] accused of extreme sexual practices such as [[:Category:Incest|incest]] and rape. ...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
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• Misattribution and Social Control in the Children of God
  ...nto the divine. Yet as a cost of membership they may also suffer physical, sexual, psychological, and religious deprivations imposed by the groups or their l ...exual relations with potential recruits or resource providers.³ Sexual relations (claimed by the group as a manifestation of God's love) were ramp
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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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• 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.
  34 KB (5,138 words) - 22:01, 9 December 2005
• 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.
  6 KB (1,032 words) - 09:10, 25 July 2005
• 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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• 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.
  15 KB (2,497 words) - 08:23, 30 July 2005
• Sydney Morning Herald: For God's sake
  ...nits" where they were interviewed at length about their lifestyles and any sexual activity. Many were puzzled. Separated from siblings, they were denied acce ...establishment agog and tongues wagging around the world. Coloured daily by sexual innuendo and occasionally by the judge-baiting taunts of one of the instruc
  14 KB (2,396 words) - 08:24, 30 July 2005
• 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.
  11 KB (1,738 words) - 08:25, 30 July 2005
• 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
  11 KB (1,762 words) - 08:26, 30 July 2005
• 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. ...tion from cultural isolation and their parents' religious, educational and sexual practices.
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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. ...issionary Alliance Church in Arizona, but in [[1950]] was forced out for a sexual affair with a 17-year-old girl and began his wanderings. He married and, in
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• Christianity Today: Sex Abuse Charges Disputed
  ==Sex Abuse Charges Disputed== ...[John Francis]] says the judge is wrong and misinformed. "These reports of sexual wounds on our young children are detestable lies," counters Francis. In add
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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 ...evotees in the 1970s with his strange brew of evangelical Christianity and sexual license.
  11 KB (1,804 words) - 04:04, 31 August 2008
• 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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