I was forced into a ‘Doomsday cult’ at 10 with 12-hour days to prep for end of world – near-death experience saved me
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A MAN who fled an alleged religious cult when he was just 15 years old has revealed what life inside the group was like.
It’s been nearly five decades since Richard Kiers fled The Move with just a shoebox of belongings, but he’s still processing the abuse he allegedly endured.
He was ten years old when his parents joined the secretive sect, which still has thousands of members and follows a doctrine of separation from the world.
Living in a commune, he claims he was forced to build roads and homes by hand during 12-hour days of hard labor.
And was told he’d burn in hell forever if he refused.
“I have no idea why my parents joined,” Richard, now 64, from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, said.
“We lived in a community just outside of New Market, Ontario, basically market gardeners growing vegetables.
“My dad went down to South Carolina, where he met with Sam Fife and other leaders, and when he came back, we were told we were leaving our church, school, and family, completely segregated from everyone.”
What followed was a difficult period for Richard and his brothers and four sisters.
The Move was first founded in the 1960s as a religious sect by Sam Fife, a former country-and-western singer and ex-Baptist preacher, according to People.
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