He watched his brother die from 200 lashes at age 9. Now he’s telling his story of cult survival
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ALLEGAN COUNTY, MI – Decades after his 12-year-old brother died in his arms, Daniel Yarbough returned to what was left of the House of Judah compound.
He sat alone for eight hours, surrounded by overgrown brush and scrub trees, and talked into a recorder.
He remembered, and relived, his hellish childhood at the religious cult where brutal punishments – whacks from a spiked club called “Big Mac” while locked in colonial-era whipping blocks – were said to be handed down by God.
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