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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]] — 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
  9 KB (1,487 words) - 16:48, 24 April 2008
• 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.
  8 KB (1,352 words) - 06:46, 25 July 2005
• 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
  10 KB (1,788 words) - 03:54, 1 September 2008
• 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."
  8 KB (1,425 words) - 02:32, 20 November 2011
• 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
  187 KB (33,656 words) - 00:57, 6 June 2005
• 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===
  21 KB (3,298 words) - 20:56, 12 June 2009
• 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.
  16 KB (2,577 words) - 10:05, 25 July 2005
• 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
  91 KB (16,240 words) - 11:22, 2 August 2010

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