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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.
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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."
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• 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
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• 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,
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
  34 KB (5,138 words) - 22:01, 9 December 2005
• Victor Program
  ...ing Victor programmes, that they are chilling examples of doctrination and brainwashing. ... What we have tried to do was give them inspiration and direction, not
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• Cleveland Plain Dealer: Authorities Seize 140 Cult Children
  .... The group has been criticized by parents of members who say it relies on brainwashing and hypnotism to woo young members.
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• Newsday: 10 Commune Arrests
  ...1970s]] and has been criticized by parents of members who say it relies on brainwashing and hypnotism to woo its young members.
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• Rocky Mountain News: Police Raid Children Of God Homes Sweep Nets 52 Arrest
  ...]] but the sect was banned in [[1978]] after stories began to circulate of brainwashing and [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sexual abuse]] of children.
  2 KB (302 words) - 07:37, 25 July 2005
• Sydney Morning Herald: The Family's Planning
  ...dragged sleeping from their beds, the alleged victims of sexual abuse and brainwashing. An open day anniversary celebration of the sect's unexpected victory in th
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• The Age: Moses David's children
  "It is not brainwashing, for there is no enemy," he says. "Your physical reality is controlled and ...he New York Attorney-General's Charity Frauds Bureau charged the sect with brainwashing, forced membership, and practices leading to personality distortion. Berg l
  21 KB (3,580 words) - 01:12, 31 May 2007
• Christianity Today: The Children of God: Disciples of Deception
  ...the COG. and the controversial [[Ted Patrick]], charging that the COG used brainwashing methods, proceeded to kid­nap (he prefers "rescue") and "[[deprogramming|d '''Hopkins.''' What about the charge of brainwashing?
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• CNN Larry King Live: 'The Family' - Preachers or Pornographers?
  ...0 with The Family were a living nightmare of exorcisms, abhorrent sex, and brainwashing. [[Rick Dupuy]] left The Family a year-and-a-half ago, charging child abuse ...nt, I was subjected to two months of one of the most incredible ordeals of brainwashing, of exorcisms, of hard labor. My personal effects were burned. I was laid o
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• Daily Mail: Free the children from this evil cult
  ...me movement has taken root there have been accusations of sexual abuse and brainwashing. What has been notoriously difficult is to make any criminal charges stick.
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• Evening Standard: Evil Berg still leads cult from beyond the grave
  There were tales of brainwashing and "disgraceful" training camps where children had their spirits broken.
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• Geraldo Rivera: Former cultists comment on requirements made of them by their leaders
  '''RIVERA:''' It's brainwashing. people are the result of the brainwashing. I can't
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• Love bombing
  ...ch's use of a showering of intense affection was more effective than the [[brainwashing]] techniques used by the North Koreans on prisoners of war. In a [[1996]] b
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• Fresno Bee: NY Accuses Cult of Sex Perversion
  ...y general's report says the "[[Children of God]]" religious sect practices brainwashing, physical coercion and sexual abuse on its members. The brainwashing, according to the report, is achived by denying new converts "sleep and bul
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• Montel Williams: Sex Abuse and Mind Control: Raised in a Cult
  ...ve been helping people to heal from the trauma, from the torture, from the brainwashing, from the mind control. And the good news is, there is hope. The bad news i
  38 KB (6,853 words) - 03:33, 1 September 2008
• The Guardian: Charges against cult blamed on ex-members
  ...d and 140 children questioned in raids across France, following reports of brainwashing and sexual abuse. But no charges were preferred and all the children were r
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• The Independent: Gideon's Bible of Free Love
  ...relations providing love was at the root. But the accusations of abuse and brainwashing were "deplorable". "We allow free love, but we do not allow sexual contact
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• The Scotsman: Sex cult said to be recuiting in Scotland
  ...s [[cult]] at the centre of child [[:Category:Sexual Abuse|sex abuse]] and brainwashing allegations is active in central [[Scotland]], a cult investigator has clai
  4 KB (567 words) - 11:34, 10 November 2005
• London Times: Band on the run with rock'n'roll in their blood
  ...subtle that you don’t notice it happening. David Berg himself called it brainwashing — he said that people have dirty minds that need to be cleaned.”
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• Houston Press: Family Ties
  ...e clinics, Berg and his cadre of [[:Category:Leaders|leaders]] began his [[brainwashing]] techniques.
  46 KB (7,723 words) - 03:33, 1 September 2008
• New Times: Where have all the Children of God gone?
  ...llar lawsuit, the Children of God are alive and well, raking in the money, brainwashing new "babes" every day and having a hell of a time''' ...od (COG) are the hardliners, the Jesus People the media cast as a bunch of brainwashing, hypnotizing, pied-pipering, glassy-eyed zombies who in the last four year,
  36 KB (6,357 words) - 22:15, 9 December 2005
• The Age: Taxi! Hailing the drama of a lifetime
  ...s a lot of sex going on but I didn't realize it. Anyway, I was a bit busy brainwashing myself. Because that's what you do, you brainwash yourself. I was memoriz
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• Let Our Children Go!
  ...I would look up some of the literature on the subject of mind control and brainwashing, because what I was witnessing sounded pretty much like what I'd read about ...wed to sleep that Sunday night. The pro­gramming, the indoctrination, the brainwashing never let up. There was very little variation in what the Elders told us,
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• Deprogramming
  ...one. I was confident of being able to "deprogram" the child counteract the brainwashing he'd undergone—so that once he had come out of it he would have no desire ...Please forgive me. But it was almost a year before the last traces of the brainwashing disappeared.''
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• The Family Responds to Heaven's Harlots
  ...religious idealism is re-interpreted throughout her book as mind control, brainwashing, manipulation and exploitation. What she once understood to be the giving o
  12 KB (1,990 words) - 19:43, 27 January 2006
• Dateline NBC: Losing Faith
  ...ack in the '70s, a mixture of parade and patriotism, along with charges of brainwashing by angry families of Moon's troops.
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• CBS Evening News: Jesus Movement Spreading to England
  ...ive Party:''' I think one can say there are signs of perhaps hypnosis and brainwashing techniques being used in order to bring them into the fold and to keep them
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• Sunday Times: Sex-cult children held - Children of God
  ...lirty Fishing|Hookers for Jesus]]". The cult was accused of kidnapping and brainwashing young people, denying them contact with their families while they were indo
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• The Age: Eccentric Habits Mark Group's Re-emergence
  ...uiting, allegedly involving [[:Category:Child Abduction|kidnapping]] and [[brainwashing]], bizarre [[:Category:Beliefs|beliefs]], and unusual [[:Category:Sexuality
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• Calgary Herald: Refusing treatment, cult member dies
  ...ons by several police forces around the world]] has shown that extensive [[brainwashing]] techniques. such as isolation, severing family ties, solitary confinement
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• Calgary Herald: 'They are right from the pits of hell,' says ex-Child of God
  "I never realized I was [[Brainwashing|brainwashed]] until after I left, until after I was out. While I was in, e
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