COLORADO CITY, Ariz. — Growing up, Briell Decker had 13 siblings, two mothers and a father who had more than 70 wives. Now, she's living life on her own. Decker was raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of…[Continue Reading...]
A woman who was raised in an extremist religious 'cult' has lifted a lid on the harrowing 'abuse' that she endured as a child. Tamara MC, 50, revealed that she was taught she 'wasn't worthy of cleanliness,' and forced to…[Continue Reading...]
A former member of a controversial religious cult has spoken out about her experiences - and will tell a Glasgow audience how to recognise the red flags themselves. The Children of God - currently known as The Family International -…[Continue Reading...]
Kilifi - A survivor of the Shakahola cult by controversial pastor Paul MacKenzie has lived to tell the story. According to a report by DW, the survivor, Salama Masha, had just started rebuilding her life after a terrifying ordeal in…[Continue Reading...]
For five years, while locked into a misogynistic doomsday cult in Ontario, Kenzie Cates had suppressed her desires to make music – until a friend managed to help her escape last autumn. “It felt like a clamp on my brain had…[Continue Reading...]
Graeme Johanson’s Searching for Elsewhere (Ginninderra Press, 2023) provides a compelling answer. His memoire, a gripping story from beginning to end, deals with the dangerous manipulation of young lives brought up in an extremely controlling sect with bizarre rules, destroyed…[Continue Reading...]
Kenyan police are still recovering bodies of members of a starvation cult who died near Malindi. Investigators have already found more than 400 victims, and fear there could be hundreds more. Many were children. A survivor describes what happened.[Continue Reading...]
WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Serena Kelley was born into the Children of God cult and became a 'poster girl' for the controversial organisation. After making her escape, she has shared her story with The Mirror A woman who survived a cult…[Continue Reading...]
JEMIMA Farris, 50, was born into the abusive Children of God sect in America – where girls as young as 12 were expected to have sex with much older men. Here, she reveals how she finally reclaimed her life. Standing…[Continue Reading...]
A woman who grew up in a sick and twisted cult has described early memories of orgies, child sex films, beatings and sex work. Serena Kelley was born into the Children of God cult in the Philippines in the 1980s…[Continue Reading...]
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