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The group has gone under a number of different names since its inception, including Teens for Christ, The Children of God (COG), The Family of Love, or simply The Family. A British court case found the group was an authoritarian cult which engaged in the systematic physical and sexual abuse of children, [ 2 ] resulting in lasting trauma among ...
The Family, also known as the Santiniketan Park Association or the Great White Brotherhood, was an Australian New Age group formed in the mid-1960s under the leadership of Anne Hamilton-Byrne (born Evelyn Grace Victoria Edwards; 30 December 1921 – 13 June 2019).
Feb 25, 2018 · Some were the children of cult members, others were newborns that came from unwed mother tricked into thinking their babies were going to good homes, a few were out and out stolen, investigators...
Mar 8, 2023 · Led by Anne Hamilton-Byrne, the Family Cult imprisoned and tortured more than 20 children at their headquarters in Melbourne, Australia in the 1970s and '80s.
Aug 9, 2019 · Prayer, Politics and Power: ‘The Family’ Reveals Our Insidious American Theocracy. Based on author Jeff Sharlet's book of the same name, the Netflix docuseries highlights a secret (homoerotic...
Aug 3, 2016 · It happened in Australia for almost two decades, among the notorious cult known as The Family. Nobody was tried on abuse, and one of the cult leaders, Anne Hamilton Byrne, walked away with a $5000 fine. Babies taken from mothers - how The Family worked.
Aug 14, 2019 · The Family, a five-part documentary series by Jesse Moss that debuted on Netflix earlier this month, makes the case that this shadowy religious organization best known for the moral...
The Family, international religious movement that ministers to political and economic elites. It is based on visions that members believe were granted by God to the movement’s founder, Abraham Vereide, and on subsequent refinements by his successor, Douglas Coe, and other Family leaders.
Sarah Moore, formerly known as Sarah Hamilton-Byrne (8 July 1969 – May 2016), was an Australian medical doctor and writer who spent her childhood in The Family, a new religious movement run by Anne Hamilton-Byrne, her adoptive mother. She was instrumental in having the group investigated by the police in Victoria, Australia.
Jun 14, 2019 · The founder of the brutal The Family cult, in which children were tortured after being stolen through adoption scams, has died in a Melbourne nursing home.