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• David Berg
  ...ly expelled from the organization for differences in teachings and alleged sexual misconduct with a 17-year-old female church employee. ==Alleged sexual abuse==
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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> ...fter becoming a private secretary to the group's founder [[David Berg]], a sexual relationship developed between them. In a [[prophecy]] titled ''"[[The Old
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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
  ...of their own members and from “[[Flirty Fishing|flirty fishing]],” the sexual seduction of potential converts that made them notorious. ...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.
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• Ricky Rodriguez
  ...ronment characterized by intense indoctrination, stringent discipline, and sexual initiation by adults. ...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
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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"
  ...who sexually molested his own daughters and granddaughters, had countless sexual encounters with his female followers both adult and under aged and was so p ...to secure visas for Children of God devotees. Kristina suffered appalling abuse under the cult's strictly disciplinarian regime). (Lynne Wallis, "Cult Recr
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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 ...ke, especially his uncontrolled drinking and alcoholism, and his perverted sexual desires and practices. I also felt that he was very much a hypocrite, makin
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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
  ...s & even horrified that maybe my [[Virginia Lee Brandt|Mother]] was having sexual thoughts about me!&mdash;Which she may have been for all I know, & I wouldn ...& our tremendous sexual needs, & it could have developed into a beautiful sexual relationship!
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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
  ...nfluenced by the style of childcare in the book, and [[:Category:Sexuality|sexual liberties]] were a part of the second generation's childhood to varying deg ...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
  ...ticult]] group ([[FREECOG]]), and the unconventional [[:Category:Sexuality|sexual practices]] which soon followed within the Children of God solidified its p ...s revelation]]" which encourages members from the age of 14 to engage in a sexual relationship with Jesus.
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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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• Berg on Pedophilia
  ...ns|Family publications]] where Berg dealt specifically with pedophilia and child sex. ===Child Brides===
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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
  ...e who were indulging in heavy alcohol abuse as well as totally promiscuous sexual activities. I too drifted for a while, mooching off my in-laws as my own fe ...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!
  ...f confessions from him. They made him say he was abusive and to confess to sexual fantasies. They made him confess to all kinds of stuff. They put him on sil ...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
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• What Happened to Rick Dupuy/Watchman?
  The Family was at the height of its sexual insanity, as well as its worldwide radio ministry. Soon Rick was totally im 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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• San Francisco Chronicle: Hewlett grant went to cult-linked charity
  ...roversial practices, such as using sex to recruit new members and allowing sexual activity between children, teenagers and adults. Rudow said the stories of child abuse in the Family in the 1970s and 1980s were being spread by "apostates" who w
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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 "The sexual manipulation in the Children of God has been so thoroughly documented that
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• Victor Landivar Trigoso
  ...y excommunicated]] at least once after publically confessing to having had sexual relations with several underage teenage girls aged 14 to 16. Numerous former members have alleged an extensive history of child abuse by Trigoso. Amongst other crimes, it is alleged that he has sexually assaul
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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}} '''Philip Sloan''' (born [[1956]]-10-13) is a known sexual predator and abuser, as well as a long-time member of [[The Family Internat
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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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• Life with Grandpa - the Mene Story
  Her rejection of his sexual advances was not to go unpunished, however, and a few weeks later she was b :"He was invariably impotent and they did not have sexual intercourse though he once tried to penetrate her, so there is no evidence
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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 ...s. Their mothers were young missionaries who followed Berg's call to share sexual favors in order to bring young men to Christ.
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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. But the group does have more lax sexual norms than most societies, Borowik 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. ...s, leftists and Jesus freaks drawn to a strange brew of Bible prophecy and sexual license. Berg died in 1994 and left Zerby as chief prophetess of the self-s
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• San Francisco Chronicle: IRS documents show ties between charity, sex cult
  ...evotees in the 1970s with his strange brew of evangelical Christianity and sexual license. ...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
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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
  Sexual "sharing" was at the center of Berg's ministry by that time. Nowhere was it ...They didn't just change his diapers. They lay naked in bed with the naked child, fondling him and urging him to fondle them.
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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
  ...e think this is all about sex," said Lieberman, 25. "But it's greater than sexual relations. It's about how you relate and feel about people. It's about lovi ...he joined Berg's sect in 1977. "It was super-fundamentalist, but with this sexual twist. Women would have six kids, or 10 kids, and would not know who three
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• San Francisco Chronicle: Mixed Memories of 'The Family' Sex: Ex-member believed abuse 'normal'
  ===Ex-member believed abuse ‘normal’=== ...ical Southern California street preacher who combined the free love of the sexual revolution with the religious fervor of the American evangelical movement.
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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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• 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 ...for or about children that could even be remotely construed as having any sexual overtones to them, the modern-day inquisitors and witch-hunters who are ben
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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. "There was all this spooky art with a high sexual content, and when the trials began, they wanted us to draw over it," she sa
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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 ...those who disagree with much of what makes the Family different--Dad, our sexual freedom under the Law of Love, our hearing from spirits, the “Loving Jesu
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• Susan Claire Borowik
  ...xual freedoms were taken for granted. She cites scholars who have said the sexual practices appeared to cause no harm to children. ===Child sexual abuse===
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• Washington Post: 'The Family' and Final Harvest
  ...dership follows a policy of lying to outsiders, is steeped in a history of sexual deviance and has even meddled in Third World politics. ...f Berg's daughters, Deborah Davis, wrote a book about her father, alleging sexual excesses.
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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
  ...some which Berg had earlier denominated "Top Secret" and which dealt with sexual and other content. Examples of Moses Letters are set forth in various sect ...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
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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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• No Real Changes in the "Children of God" Cult
  ...e had sex with the Holy Spirit Who he believed is female and spoke of many sexual encounters with spirit beings which materialized out of thin air. He "had a ...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
  We had given up everything, including our sexual freedoms we were practicing before joining the group, to follow Berg becaus ...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
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• Children of God. Family of Love. The Family
  Zerby was just one of the many women in the group that Berg had sexual relations with. He could basically have sex with any female member and he d ...d would happily give them to others. Not all were willing to submit to his sexual advances. A prior roommate of Zerby, before Zerby moved in with Berg, a the
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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. ...">33.</small> "<u>PLEASE BE AWFUL CAREFUL ABOUT CHILREN HAVING ANY KIND OF SEXUAL ACTIVITY WHICH WOULD INFECT THEM</u>. I wouldn't encourage it too much. Wha
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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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• 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 ...No. Those rules are in place to protect people and to make sure that when sexual activity does happen, it is done in love.
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• Faith Berg
  ...kids to get the natural habit! We pray it'll work, then junior won't be a sexual jerk! It worked for me as you can see, I just do what comes naturally! Oh I ...known Faithy over the years report that she enthusiastically embraced the sexual liberties preached by her father. Some of the most blatant sexualization of
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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. ...ed people drawn in by a heady brew of evangelism and [[:Category:Sexuality|sexual liberation]]. Based in closed communes of up to 200 across the globe, for m
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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. ...ams admitted women members of the religious cult have in the past provided sexual services to outsiders.
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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 353
  “indoctrination” is going to make that child ever think the same way as his conversely, so do I. If I want to have sexual fantasies about Jesus, if I want
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• FSM 354
  practice living the sexual side of the Law of Love, only to hit some pretty “There is no greater calling than to be a child of God, and no greater honor
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• Columbus Dispatch: Columbus woman says she escaped cult horrors
  Children and adult women provide sexual favors to government officials and ...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
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• ABC News: New Focus on Fringe Religious Sect
  ===Child Sex Allegations Haunt Group Known For Biblical Prophecy, Sexual Freedom=== ...fter it officially renounced adult-child sex in response to allegations of sexual misconduct, there are new questions about a Christian sect founded in the l
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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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• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 'Heaven's Harlot' looks back on Jesus freak days
  ...ing material of his followers. She says she rationalized his position that sexual sharing among adults and even "sacred prostitution" were acceptable. She sh ...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
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• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The Family: Hippie throwback or dangerous, abusive cult
  ...ngs and a dangerous cult that's survived several investigations of alleged sexual abuses. Many people know the Family only as the sect in which the late acto As to the ultimate sharing, all parties involved must consent before sexual relationships may begin, Etheredge said. That includes permission of any sp
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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" ...ers from attending Sunday services, citing the sect's reputation for using sexual come-ons to attract members. Berg, whom some followers referred to as "[[Da
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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 ...ir!’" (BOD p. 551). There are many pictures showing Davidito involved in sexual activity, in one of which Sarah is performing oral sex on him.
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• Philadelphia Inquirer: Church declines to aid sect accused of abusing children
  '''The Family also has faced allegations of sexual misconduct'''<br> ...controversial religious sect that has faced accusations of child abuse and sexual misconduct, showed up at Sunday services last month and asked lay and clerg
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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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