LaVonne W. (Grnemae) - , reviewed on 7/17/2010 + 451 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

This was hard book to read due to the subject matter. It is so important that people who have left these types of cults continue to tell their stories.
What this cult did not only to the adults but especially to the children in the name of religion is criminal. The brainwashing and emotional turmoil that they are subjected to is horrific. Children taken from their parents at very young ages and given to "foster parents" and subjected to abuse that most of us would find hard to understand. As a result attachments issues with and to biological parents and siblings were created. Attachments to biological family seemed to be discouraged leaving children with no sense of belonging. Within the cult children were used as the workers for entire communes. Children severely beaten for doing things that are normal for children like an occasional bed wetting accident. And most appalling children used for sex, even small infants. Sex among both adults and children in this cult was encouraged and even commanded. Men, women and children moved from country to country to stay ahead of the law. Children given to one foster family and then to another and used in most cases as work and sex slaves.
I am glad that all three of these woman had to courage to leave this cult and most importantly to tell the world about it. One of the authors Kristina had the courage at a very young age to testify in open court about the abuse she suffered and that she saw other children were subjected to while she lived in the communes.
A book worth taking the time to read.

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