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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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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
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• 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.
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• 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
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• 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.
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• 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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• Christianity Today: COG Founder Berg Dead at 75
  ...gal battles]] in foreign countries over [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|child sex abuse]] charges, although no convictions have resulted.
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• Cornerstone Magazine: The Family and the Truth
  ...id, “Yep, that’s us, or at least who we were.” In some ways, I am a child of the 60's Jesus Revolution myself. I had known of The Children of God, a ...t ethos was Flirty Fishing - the use of sexual allure, up to and including sexual intercourse, as a method of both spreading the message and developing finan
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• Cornerstone Magazine: The Children Without Their "Father"
  ...regarding the identity of Jesus, the COG idea that the Trinity is overtly sexual vs. mainstream Christianity's conception of agape, but in the end said that ...ot that the COG was radical, but rather that they were anything but. Their sexual persona, as exemplified by Berg, seemed boringly bourgeois rather than trul
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• James D. Chancellor
  ...icky Rodriguez]] and The Family's history of [[:Category:Child Abuse|child abuse]]. ...ntimacy was practiced as part of the group's liberal [[:Category:Sexuality|sexual ethos]] during the [[1970s]] and [[1980s]]. Chancellor does not provide an
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• Nova Religio Book Review: Life in The Family: An Oral History of the Children of God
  ...y to a near sacramental status" (pp. 105–6). Within the community, adult sexual sharing strained, and often broke, marriages and shattered emotions (p. 107 ...cars of emotional and physical abuse as well as evidence [of] very serious sexual exploitation" (p. 195). This is a remarkable, but accurate, conclusion.
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• ABC News: Tale of the Tape
  (Voice Over) The man with a gun was once a child in pain. ...heir apparent. This little boy, idolized by thousands as a prophet in the sexual revolution is now sitting in a small apartment in Tucson, getting ready to
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• CNN Larry King Live: 'The Family' - Preachers or Pornographers?
  ...arges leveled by a former member and a cult specialist of sexual abuse and child molestation. ...hing. [[Rick Dupuy]] left The Family a year-and-a-half ago, charging child abuse. His wife and several children remain members. Dupuy joins us from San Fran
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• CBS News: Woman breaks away from religious cult that promoted prostitution and sexual abuse of their children
  ==Woman breaks away from religious cult that promoted prostitution and sexual abuse of their children== ...eaders who were churning out new lifestyle policies that were increasingly sexual in nature.
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• CNN Anderson Cooper 360: Murder-Suicide Leads to Secretive Cult
  ...ally happened to the so-called Children of God? And what led this one-time child prophet to kill? Coming up next on 360, murder-suicide. Did the sexual practices of a secretive religious sect drive this young man over the edge?
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• Daily Mail: Yard probe into child cult
  ==Yard probe into child cult== ...abuse. Argentine reports said some of the children showed signs of sexual abuse and may have been involved in Satanic rituals.
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• Daily Mail: 'Reformed' Sex Cult Can Keep Children
  ...hter's children could stay with the sect, despite its appalling history of sexual depravity. ...used or ill-treated and his mother had made sure he was not exposed to any sexual activity.
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• Evening Standard: We swap wives in the name of Jesus, says cult
  ...being kept against their will and say they have never suffered any sexual abuse. But Mrs [[Valerie Jones]], the mother of 18-year-old Celeste, believes the ...re children may have been involved in sex. He said: "I have never abused a child and neither have any of the adults here. We believe in bringing them up by
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• Evening Standard: Evil Berg still leads cult from beyond the grave
  His judgment lays bare the sexual exploitation and corruption on which the [[cult]], founded in California in He said he had a feeling of "revulsion" as the evidence of child abuse, corruption of minors, incest, and torture, all in the name of love, unfold
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• CNN Headline News: Religious Sect Accused of Child Abuse and Pornography
  ==Religious Sect Accused of Child Abuse and Pornography== ...in The Children of God started in the early '80s. It was not called sexual abuse because they did believe that it was God's way to show God's love to the ch
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• London Times: Judge condemns cult's founder as perverted and malign influence
  members and expert witnesses in child psychology, made clear that the child's mother and grandmother both wanted the best interests of the boy to
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• Alberta Report Western Report: Chilling reminders of "free love": an Argentine incest bust stirs gruesome memories in Alberta
  of child sex abuse and prostitution allegations. and had her first child.
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• UC Berkeley News: The accidental activist: Daniel Roselle
  ...countries began investigating the group for [[:Category:Child Abuse|child abuse]] and [[:Category:Pedophilia|pedophilia]]. His wife [[Karen Zerby]] became ...otape]] announcing his intent to exact revenge for the [[Story of Davidito|abuse]] he had suffered at The Family's hands, which included participation in se
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• Editorial Reviews: Heaven's Harlots by Miriam Williams
  ...istian fundamentalist cult (River Phoenix had spent years in the cult as a child). Williams soon found herself pregnant, married and forced into "giving sex ...aise funds for the Church. After hearing allegations of young child sexual abuse, Williams decamped. This book illuminates one person's struggle with spirit
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• South China Morning Post: More accusations against Children of God
  ...from the world's press. His sister maintains she was sexually abused as a child for years. ...pherd]]" to a sect known as "The Family", shrugs off allegations of mixing child sex and religion, claiming it is just [[persecution]].
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• Good Morning America: Family International Cult Under Scrutiny After Murder-Suicide
  ...hat he was seeking revenge against people he says sexually abused him as a child. ...ally addressed concerns in regard to questionable past practices regarding sexual misconduct. These apologies were published and have been reiterated numerou
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• Dr. Phil: The Family Cult Escapees
  ...ive years old, a guy would throw me on the floor. My mother knew about the abuse, and she has not done a single thing about it. McGRAW: It's a secret world of polygamy and alleged abuse going on right here in the US in a town called Colorado City.
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• 60 Minutes Australia: Sinful Acts
  ...and thousands, many here in [[Australia]], were hooked on the promise of a sexual nirvana. The cult's American guru, [[David Berg|David Moses]], even declare ...guez is on a mission, a mission to kill the people he says abused him as a child.
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• California Patriot: Courage and self-reliance
  ..._Abuse|sexual abuse]] of members' children. After twenty years of enduring abuse, continuous attempts at indoctrination, and very limited contact with the o ...despite The Family's attempts to brainwash him. In Roselle's words, "As a child, I was fully invested in their culture. I had no other experiences to measu
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• 60 Minutes New Zealand: The Children of God
  ...ies from inside the group. Though I should warn you, some of them are of a sexual nature. Sarah Hall with this investigation: (More sexual Family video footage).
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• London Times: 'After my mother, all I need is one bullet for myself'
  ===The Family cult used free love as a mask for child abuse, accusers claim. So was it so strange that a former member turned killer?== ...at religious America thought had conveniently healed long ago: the alleged abuse of potentially hundreds of children by [[The Family]], a radical “free lo
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• Montel Williams: Sex Abuse and Mind Control: Raised in a Cult
  ==Sex Abuse and Mind Control: Raised in a Cult== ...ps://media.xfamily.org/video/tv/montel-2005-10-24.avi Montel Williams: Sex Abuse and Mind Control: Raised in a Cult] (40:56, 128.8MB) <br><small>([https://m
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• Associated Press: `The Family' wants cult-hunting group dissolved
  PARIS (AP) - A religious group accused of child [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]] wants the [[cult]]-hunting group that spurred on police to be dissolved, ...re being [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexually]] and [[:Category:Psychological Abuse|emotionally abused]]. The raids followed a two-year investigation.
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• Associated Press: Mexican groups accuse U.S.-based cult of sexual abuse
  ==Mexican groups accuse U.S.-based cult of sexual abuse== ....S.]]-based religious sect known as "[[The Family]]" of [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexually abusive]] practices, according to reports published Tuesday.
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• Globe and Mail: B.C. officials seize 13 children after claim that one molested
  ...o [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]] of my children either [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual]] or otherwise," the father said. The father had made allegations of sexual abuse previously but a ministry investigation concluded that they were unfounded.
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• The Guardian: Charges against cult blamed on ex-members
  ...[[:Category:Child Abduction|kidnapping]] and [[:Category:Child Abuse|child abuse]] which led to the arrest in [[Argentina]] of 30 adult members and the remo ...that some of the children showed signs of [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual abuse]] and some reports said they had been involved in satanic rituals. The chil
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• Houston Chronicle: Members of sect say they're being persecuted
  ...tine]] court for questioning on charges of [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual abuse]] and other crimes. ...sexual abuse to racketeering, [[Flirty Fishing|prostitution]], [[:Category:Child Abduction|kidnapping]] and concealing of children, court officials said.
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• The Independent: Cult denies child sex abuse
  ==Cult denies child sex abuse== ...day to deny allegations that it encourages [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual abuse]] of children.
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• The Independent: Gideon's Bible of Free Love
  ...Buenos Aires, [[Argentina]], after allegations of child [[:Category:Abuse|abuse]]. ...not among those sect members held on charges of racketeering, [[:Category:Child Abduction|kidnapping]] and violating the rights of children.
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• The Independent: `We were always afraid. Silly things like frowning were punished'
  ...ung pregnancies. (Contraception was strictly prohibited.) From 16 onwards, sexual relations could once again occur. Like the other children, Christina was repeatedly [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexually abused]] by members of the group, from the age of two-and-a-half u
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• London Times: Follower describes childhood of abuse
  ==Follower describes childhood of abuse== ...had been [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexually]] and [[:Category:Psychological Abuse|mentally abused]] from the age of three by followers of the sect. She was b
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• The Observer: Members put on defensive by raids
  ...tude towards sex, but it isn't all free love and croquet. No, they did not abuse their children. ...of God/The Family, the religious group that has been condemned as an evil, child-abusing sex [[cult]] and pursued by police forces around the world.
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• Salt Lake Tribune: Radical religious group returns to U.S.
  ...] and known since the early [[1970s]] for unorthodox [[:Category:Sexuality|sexual]] [[:Category:Practices|practices]] and radical communal lifestyles is movi ...n]] where communes affiliated with the Family have been charged with child abuse. Critics also cite a swell of recent media attention in [[Japan]] to the Fa
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• The Scotsman: Sex cult said to be recuiting in Scotland
  ...owy religious [[cult]] at the centre of child [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sex abuse]] and brainwashing allegations is active in central [[Scotland]], a cult in ...s alleged practices has been compiled by Scotland Yard for distribution to child welfare agencies.
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• Sunday Age: Director worries for children
  ...ed for it to be! But it must be made very clear to your children that such sexual freedom must never be indulged in or practised openly in the presence of vi ...est problem every travelling salesman or travelling businessman has is his sexual needs and his need for companionship, just someone that he knows, a friend,
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• London Times: The day the 'Martians' woke up
  ...had been separated from their parents at the age of 12, performing various sexual acts with adults and each other. Not only was it imperative that the childr ...d and taken into care and fear the children may have been part of a global child-sex network; some are thought to have been moved to South America after pre
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• Houston Press: Family Ties
  [[Image:David_Berg-002.jpg|thumb|David Berg's sexual obsessions became Family doctrine. <small style="color:#777;">(www.xfamily. ...[[:Category:Physical Abuse|physical]] and [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual abuse]] they suffered as kids. Several key members live in Texas.
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• List of Family pseudonyms
  | Polio Child Relief Mumbai ...FI and former [[MWM]] host [[Simon Peter]], also connected to child sexual abuse.
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• Order of Judge Campora - 1993-06-28
  ...[http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/crc.htm Convention On The Rights of The Child]</ref>), Law 23054<ref name="ley23054">[http://www.rimaweb.com.ar/biblio_le ...icle states that: "1. States Parties undertake to respect the right of the child to preserve his or her identity, including nationality, name and family rel
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• Julio Manuel Cámpora
  ...ding kidnapping, hiding children, falsification of documents, rape, sexual abuse, illegal deprivation of libery and reduction to a state of servitude) beyon Judge Cámpora was also involved in another case involving The Family when a child whom [[Brian Edward Pickus]] abducted in [[1980]] and who, in July [[1987]]
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• Let Our Children Go!
  I'll call her Mrs. Betty Spahn. She had, as she put it, lost a child to the Children of God and, like Mrs. Jackson, had been unable to get help ...families with children in the cult. Their stories were all identical: the child vanished without a trace, surfaced a week later with a phone call in which
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• San Francisco Chronicle: Mixed Memories of 'The Family' Love: Current sect members think so
  ...losophy of free love led to widespread [[:Category:Pedophilia|child sexual abuse]] in the [[1970s]] and [[1980s]]. ..."flirty fishing,” but they do follow "the [[law of love]]," which allows sexual relations between married and single adults living in the sect's communes.
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• Sunday Telegraph Magazine: Family Values
  '''Child abuse, prostitution, promiscuity. That's all in the past for the shiny, happy peo ...ustice Ward|child custody battle]] involving a four-year-old boy, known as Child S, whose mother is a member of a religious sect called the [[Family of Love
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• Folio: CBS News "Eyes" the U of A
  ...[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual]] and [[:Category:Emotional Abuse|emotional abuse]]." ...l service agencies because of allegations of [[:Category:Child Abuse|child abuse]], says Kent.
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• Uncut: Walking With Demons
  ...quin's spiritually tormented priest, Coulmier, attempts to cure him of his sexual obsessions. As ever, though, Phoenix exposes the devil inside us all when h ...vid Berg]], which was later investigated by the [[FBI]] over alleged child abuse — indeed, River Phoenix once claimed to have lost his virginity at the ag
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• Australia
  ...y:Abuse|child abuse]], both [[physical abuse|physical]] and [[sexual abuse|sexual]].<ref>Wilmoth, Peter. "[[The Sunday Age: Meet The Family|Meet The Family]] * [[Sydney Morning Herald: Sect Boy Denied Sexual 'Fishing' Says Counsel]] &mdash; 1992-09-07
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• GN 337
  GBY! From re-reading different [[The Family|Family]] accounts of [[:Category:Child Abduction|kidnapping]] & [[deprogramming]] attempts, a number of similar ci ...den mate enough credence to get official government help in abducting your child.
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• ABC News 20/20: To Bring Her Children Home
  ...s constantly invoke the name of Jesus, but in private, they reportedly see child sex and [[Berg on Incest|incest]] as part of their gospel. ...ildren. Possibly at stake were matters of [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual abuse]] and mind control. Tom Jarriel has a startling, two-part report that's be
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• NBC Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric
  ...tions of [[Flirty Fishing|prostitution]] and [[:Category:Child Abuse|child abuse]]. ...abuse, child sex, and using adult female members of the Children of God as sexual lures to get converts.
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• Dateline NBC: Losing Faith
  (Photos of Donna Collins as a child) (Various crowds of people; child in wagon; women and children; little girl; candles; split screen showing Be
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• The Love Prophet and the Children of God
  ...s his own church. But after three years he’s kicked out. Something about sexual impropriety which is never proven. At home things aren’t going any better '''Narrator: '''He chronicles his many sexual adventures in lurid detail, including being seduced by ancient spirit godde
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• The Family's Response to "The Love Prophet and the Children of God"
  ...rs. Also, David Berg was not expelled from his ministerial post because of sexual impropriety, but rather due to his attempts to racially integrate his churc ...m that the principle of the Law of Love can be carried over and applied to sexual interaction between consenting adults. It is our belief that if someone's a
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• Lauren: Allegations of Apologies
  ...in various Letters or other publications. (See the 1992 Statement on Child Abuse; "Our Beliefs Concerning the Lord's Law of Love," ML #2858:50-51, published ...e Charter to ensure that no harm of any kind related to sexual or physical abuse happens, and if it does, that those who caused it can be disciplined."
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• Lauren: Responsibility and Abuse
  ==Responsibility and Abuse== These factors are: Responsibility and the Definition of Abuse.
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• Albatross - Berg and TF on Education
  ...ificial providers for men (an all that doctrine’s resulting impact), and child labor. ...basic education, which used to be the common thing in the old days. All a child needed was about six or eight grades of basic education, and by that time t
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• Sydney Morning Herald: Beyond Belief
  ...rder, the cult deteriorated into bizarre sexual practices, including child abuse. ..., and the cult deteriorated further into a morass of flirty fishing, child abuse and stripping videos (notably, men were not sent out to FF).
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• Sydney Morning Herald: Child Sex Evidence Queried
  ==Child Sex Evidence Queried== ...f subtle abuse in some cases. I'm not implying all these children have had sexual intercourse with someone."
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• Sydney Morning Herald: Magistrate Slams Sect Case Lawyers
  ...children of The Family religious sect may mean separate hearings for each child over the next five or six years, Cobham Children's Court was told yesterday ...e' is so potent it must convey to most adults some serious physical sexual abuse of those children ... I'm told there's not going to be any evidence of this
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• Sydney Morning Herald: Sex Abuse Was Subtle, Court Told
  ==Sex Abuse Was Subtle, Court Told== In the second week of hearing into a child care application involving 65 sect children, the department's Campbelltown
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• Sydney Morning Herald: Court In Uproar Over Family Sect Ruling
  ...llegations by the Department of Community Services of sexual abuse of each child in the sect's three commune houses in Sydney's Hills district.
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• Sydney Morning Herald: Dept's Sect Case 'Eroded' By Errors
  ...yesterday that discrepancies in the accuracy of an interview with a young child eroded confidence in the interviewer. ...ime was the boy quizzed about the major concern of the department - sexual abuse - although it contends that when sect boys turned 12 they were considered m
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• Sydney Morning Herald: Sect Warns Of $10M Damages Claim Over Raids
  ...children are in danger of educational, emotional, psychological and sexual abuse, which the parents reject. Significantly, it now says that if the court determines a child is in need of care, it does not necessarily result in the placement of chil
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• Sydney Morning Herald: No Extra Magistrates For Sect Case
  ...id: "The convulsions are a clear indication of the stress inflicted on the child by the department looking after him ... the parents are certainly incredibl ...nt supervision of two people ... the department has acted properly and the child is now in the best location possible".
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• Kathy Farrell
  ...figuring it out, we were babes in the woods when it came to physiological abuse, and we too were just trying to get by. ==Alleged Child Abuse==
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• Jules - Apologetics and Academic Supporters of The Family
  ...France in 1992, insisting that the accused were positively "not guilty of abuse upon children." In the interview [with Paidika], he prevailed upon pedophil ...Roger Scotford and Richard Ofshe a Dutch Conference in June 1995 attacking child protection."
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• The Australian: Keeping it in the Family
  ...ory:Psychological Abuse|emotional]] or [[:Category:Physical Abuse|physical abuse]] of children and a link to the group's unorthodox [[:Category:Beliefs|beli ...s". Critics of the group have also accused them of permitting child sexual abuse, but no charges have been successful.
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• The Australian: Child's Play - Judge Rules Sect Raid Trespass
  ==Child's Play - Judge Rules Sect Raid Trespass== ...nger of being, [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexually]] or [[:Category:Physical Abuse|physically abused]].
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• Australian Associated Press: NSW - Sect children warrant invalidly executed, court told
  ...ger of being, [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexually]] and [[:Category:Physical Abuse|physically abused]] - claims The Family said were unsubstantiated. ...various documents, including a copy of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Declaration of the United Nations on the protection and welfare of
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• Straits Times: 140 Aussie kids saved after raids on religious cult
  ...id]] and [[Chairman Mo]], is reportedly sought by US police on [[:Category:Child Abduction|kidnapping]], rape and extortion charges. ...ustralia. The sect has recently been associated with allegations of sexual abuse and several state authorities in Australia are investigating the claims.
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• Sunday Times: Sex-cult children held - Children of God
  ...ry:Sexual Abuse|sexual]] and [[:Category:Psychological Abuse|psychological abuse]] by a religious [[cult]]. ...raids were quickly condemned by a leading lawyer as "legalised [[:Category:Child Abduction|kidnapping]]" and "fascist lunacy". A court hearing tomorrow will
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• Report to Dad and Maria from Australia
  ...girls together, scenes of masturbation and sexual intercourse or simulated sexual intercourse, a testimony from a girl called Joan admitting that she masturb '''CHILD/ADULT SEX'''
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• Investigation regarding the bibliography of the Children of God: The existence of clandestine jails
  ...nly 13 years old at the time this youth confided, his doubts regarding the sexual abuses he had suffered in an "[[Open Heart Report]]" (as the mandatory week ...ke the kidnapping definitive, Berg quickly married "Lydia" to "Caleb." The child soon born to this couple, a few years later, fled the group, by which "Lydi
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• HomeARC ML 1138
  ...& they were praying desperately for a grandson. Then Conchi had her third child & it was another girl! And the Lord told me that they would never have anot ...'', & then if you <u>do</u> you'll suffer a penalty for it. If you overdo, abuse your body, go to the excess & get sore & raw or even actually wounded, you'
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• HomeARC ML 1237
  ...PASS THE PHYSICAL</u>'', & frequently when Maria & I are at the end of our sexual ropes, you might say, as far as physical ecstasy is concerned, we frequentl ...r>       4. ''<u>I HOPE YOU ALL DON'T MIND MY BEING FRANK ABOUT OUR SEXUAL LIFE</u>'', Does this offend anybody? I think we're all family & quite used
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• HomeARC ML 1362
  ...Lord has given me, the temple of His Spirit, & try to be good to it & not abuse it. As even the apostle said, "No man ever yet hated his own body" (Eph.5:2 ...from beets, a greenish tinge from green vegetables etc. In general if the child feels & acts perfectly well, there is nothing to be concerned about.
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• HomeARC ML 1434
  ...sk is worth it. I don't think we should impose that obligation & burden of sexual sharing on the poor people that are free from disease by making them feel o ...hings, & usually precaution is thrown to the winds, & in the state of high sexual excitement you're not apt to care what happens! You have that strange irres
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