Former members of cult-like group in California detail years of torture, starvation and alleged murder
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“They were a church cult – whatever they called themselves. They kept me locked away because I knew what they were doing was wrong, like beating me every day.”
Brie Byrd said she was battered and bruised on a daily basis while growing up as a member of an Inland Empire secretive sect called His Way Spirit Led Assemblies. She tells KTLA’s Mary Beth McDade she was often kept locked up and starved.
“Because I was living off of one piece of bread and one glass of water for about two or three months, I was like 90 pounds and skin and bones,” she remembered. “I was sitting in my own like period pad for that long – just one pad.”
After years of torture, Byrd said she finally escaped at the age of 15. She told KTLA her captors were the heads of the ministry, including its two main leaders, Pastor Darryl “Muzic” Marin and Shelly “Kat” Martin, who calls herself a prophetess.
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