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• Dallas Morning News: Area watchdog groups say families torn apart by sects' control of members
  ...rting Roman Catholic priests to work against cults and sects that practice brainwashing, sexual enticement and alienation from family members and society.
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• My experience with Children of God/The Family
  ...er, saying we had to go visit our families because he was being accused of brainwashing us. He wanted us to prove to them we were not brainwashed.
  110 KB (21,383 words) - 06:50, 9 June 2005
• Kennebec Journal: 20 youths arrested in raid on commune
  ...al's office [[Lefkowitz Report|investigated]] the sect and concluded that "brainwashing techniques are deliberately employed." Members take Biblical names, organiz
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• Daily Intelligencer: Dear God, Please give me back my son!
  ...limpse of Neil, the doctor prayed. He had heard of the cult before, of its brainwashing techniques, and he knew of two girls who had essentially "disappeared" with
  11 KB (2,119 words) - 22:14, 9 December 2005
• Mansfield News Journal: Children of God Reject Everything in Modern Society
  ...nti-religion and anti-schools." The committee also accuses COG leaders of "brainwashing" their followers, and there have been allegations of hypnosis and the use
  4 KB (785 words) - 04:54, 25 July 2005
• Mansfield News Journal: Controversial Children of God Sect 'Matures'
  ...exual abuse ot young'members, rape, kidnaping, tax evasion, draft dodging, brainwashing and virtual enslavement of converts. ...enied as false the accounts of incest, rape and sexual promiscuity. As for brainwashing, it said. "No one is forced into submission to our beliefs."
  4 KB (567 words) - 18:27, 23 November 2005
• Daily Intelligencer: Cult ordeal has changed family's life
  ...ent. The crew of that US ship was specially selected and trained to resist brainwashing. But within 48 hours of the ship's capture in the South China Sea by the Ko The Schumachers believe the cults practice a form of brainwashing to entice and keep their members, and it is a force so strong that perhaps
  8 KB (1,367 words) - 21:53, 9 December 2005
• Newark Advocate: Children of God find new home
  ...s. But they've run into considerable opposition, including accusations of "brainwashing" in the United States and have been expelled from [[Lebanon]] and [[Madagas
  4 KB (671 words) - 02:21, 21 July 2005
• The Progress: Children of God Sect Grips Thousands of Parents
  ...report outlined what it called "shocking testimony of sexual abuse, rape, brainwashing, solitary confinement of recalcitrant proselytes and demands that children
  9 KB (1,540 words) - 21:56, 9 December 2005
• Stephen A. Kent
  * Kent SA (2000). "[[Brainwashing and Re-Indoctrination Programs in the Children of God/The Family]]". ''Cult
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• Time Magazine: Whose Children?
  ...e of kidnaping, drugging or genuine hypnotism so far, a broader charge of "brainwashing" may be closer to the truth, at least in the sense of relentless exposure t
  8 KB (1,233 words) - 08:55, 25 July 2005
• Time Magazine: Children of Doom
  ...their indoctrination of converts, who still go through months of spiritual brainwashing. Those who escape often have to leave a lot behind. When [[David Hoyt]], an
  4 KB (718 words) - 08:57, 25 July 2005
• Pill? Or Pilgrimage?
  109. SO THAT'S A BIG JOB! I mean I belive in brainwashing! If you have a dirty mind you've got to have it washed! But then you've got
  75 KB (14,170 words) - 01:42, 24 June 2005
• New York Times: Lefkowitz Lists Charges On Sect
  ...had become a fraud-tinged cult whose young converts had been subjected to brainwashing, [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual abuse]] and involuntary confinement. ...sed the organization of various coercive acts, including the use of drugs, brainwashing, and hypnosis and censorship of mail and phone calls to encourage the alien
  4 KB (574 words) - 05:01, 31 March 2006
• Oui Magazine: Murder Most Foul
  ...rs and similar hard-sell tactics, which the sect's critics claim add up to brainwashing? Gibeah refuses to be drawn into the subject.
  22 KB (3,904 words) - 07:02, 25 July 2005
• Misattribution and Social Control in the Children of God
  ...ecdotal Atrocities in the Social Construction of Evil," pp. 139-160 in The Brainwashing / [[Deprogramming]] Controversy. Edited by D. Bromley and J. T. Richardson,
  43 KB (6,890 words) - 00:48, 23 July 2008
• Rolling Stone: The Life and Death of the Chosen One
  ...eir kids, a group of parents began to publicly label the Children of God a brainwashing cult and tried to kidnap their loved ones from the communal homes. Frighten
  52 KB (9,008 words) - 19:32, 23 March 2009
• What Magazine: Bait on the hook: a cult experience
  The term "brainwashing" is often used to refer to this deceptive psychological and social manipula
  12 KB (2,136 words) - 11:00, 25 July 2005
• Washington Post: New York Would Place Children of God Under State Scrutiny
  "It is apparent," the re­port says, "that all of the in­tensive brainwashing of Children of God has left its mark upon the psyches and personalities of
  4 KB (712 words) - 10:02, 25 July 2005
• Clarifying Contentious Issues: A Rejoinder to Melton, Shupe, and Lewis
  ...n Melton]] and that he could have addressed. His peculiar discussion about brainwashing-not a topic that we raised-obfuscates very important points that we made in ...ent, forced confessions, and intense ideological study makes it a classic "brainwashing" program. Moreover, its operation raises serious issues about human rights
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