We the undersigned wish to state beyond doubt that the cult with the following pseudonyms known as:
The Children of God
The Family of Love
The Family
The Family International
Engaged in the following crimes in a systematic fashion.
That their leaders,
David Brandt Berg, Karen Zerby and Steven Kelly actively condoned, and demanded this behaviour of all cult members both adult and adolescent, worldwide from 1968 until at least 2007 if not to the present day
Forced sexual relations of children with adults
Forced sexual relations of preteen and teenage girls with adults
Forced prostitution
Forced unpaid work as in begging, household chores, cooking, cleaning, hard manual labor and proselytising
Denial of basic human rights including
Beatings, whippings, speech restriction, cruel and unusual punishments as defined as torture under the human rights convention, denial of food, water, incarceration, solitary confinement, kidnapping, brain washing, denial of education, medicare, adaquate living conditions, blackmail, extortion, tax and income fraud,
We state that these were not isolated incidences as the cult leaders and their associates claim but that this in fact, without a doubt was commited with the full knowledge, consent and propagation of all cult leaders and many of the adult cult members
There is no doubt that these people are responsible for the many deaths, suicides and other ruined lives of hundreds if not thousands of second and third generation children who were unfortunate enough to be born into this cult
Updates
January 26, 2020
The stories coming into this inbox are harrowing and prove these atrocities were a calculated choice by the leadership. Copy the link to this petition and send it directly to your district representative today. We must ensure these crimes are treated with the severity they deserve.
January 26, 2020
The sheer scale of this response confirms that we are finally breaking the silence around these crimes. Now go to your representatives and demand they open a formal investigation into these leaders.
11 Comments
I witnessed beatings and spankings so much so that one child's buttocks was just one giant blue welt. I also experienced mental abuse by being repeatedly lectured, lied to and coerced into begging for food and money on the streets instead of going to school all throughout my childhood and teenage years. I was also sent to a special internment "Camp" to get rid of my homosexuality and my constant problem of questioning leadership. I still suffer from that abuse today and is not something I can easily move past, or away from. They have in essence ruined a good part of my life and adult psyche.
I’m signing this for the justice of the many who went through this in the first 30yrs of the group’s existence. I myself went through some of these just not the sexual abuse as I was around mainly in the era of ‘TFI’.
Never forget what they did to us. They told us it was gods will but it was just pure evil.
I was there in the 80s and the stories about the beatings and the food denial are 100 percent real. They destroyed so many kids lives. Glad people are finally speaking out about the nightmare we lived through.
All these statements are accurate. I can attest to this because I was there and both suffered and witnessed systematic sexual, physical, and mental abuse until I escaped at age 15 in 1995... The victims deserve justice and should not be the ones ashamed to speak!
It is disgusting and cruel that innocent children were made to suffer at the hands of these perpetrators.I don't care one bit if they thought they were doing it out of 'love' or following their cult leader.There is no excuse for these cruel and selfish acts.Grown ups know right from wrong and they made their choice and there needs to be consequences for their actions.They should be made to suffer like they made Children suffer for all those years.Sadly we have lost many along the way from feeling they needed a way out of their pain physically,emotionally and mentally.It is horrible to think that certain individuals could cause so much agonising pain towards Children they should have been protecting and making them feel safe but no they did not anything of the sort.They abused their power and failed in a big way.
Just wrong
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We the undersigned wish to state beyond doubt that the cult with the following pseudonyms known as:
The Children of God
The Family of Love
The Family
The Family International
Engaged in the following crimes in a systematic fashion.
That their leaders,
David Brandt Berg, Karen Zerby and Steven Kelly actively condoned, and demanded this behaviour of all cult members both adult and adolescent, worldwide from 1968 until at least 2007 if not to the present day
Forced sexual relations of children with adults
Forced sexual relations of preteen and teenage girls with adults
Forced prostitution
Forced unpaid work as in begging, household chores, cooking, cleaning, hard manual labor and proselytising
Denial of basic human rights including
Beatings, whippings, speech restriction, cruel and unusual punishments as defined as torture under the human rights convention, denial of food, water, incarceration, solitary confinement, kidnapping, brain washing, denial of education, medicare, adaquate living conditions, blackmail, extortion, tax and income fraud,
We state that these were not isolated incidences as the cult leaders and their associates claim but that this in fact, without a doubt was commited with the full knowledge, consent and propagation of all cult leaders and many of the adult cult members
There is no doubt that these people are responsible for the many deaths, suicides and other ruined lives of hundreds if not thousands of second and third generation children who were unfortunate enough to be born into this cult
Updates
January 26, 2020
The stories coming into this inbox are harrowing and prove these atrocities were a calculated choice by the leadership. Copy the link to this petition and send it directly to your district representative today. We must ensure these crimes are treated with the severity they deserve.
January 26, 2020
The sheer scale of this response confirms that we are finally breaking the silence around these crimes. Now go to your representatives and demand they open a formal investigation into these leaders.
11 Comments
I was present for a variety of beatings and other human rights violations as well as having been witness to sexual abuse and molestation of minors which resulted in members involved being quietly removed from the home with none of the abuses reported to the proper authorities. I would be willing to testify under oath that the above statement is true.
I witnessed beatings and spankings so much so that one child's buttocks was just one giant blue welt. I also experienced mental abuse by being repeatedly lectured, lied to and coerced into begging for food and money on the streets instead of going to school all throughout my childhood and teenage years. I was also sent to a special internment "Camp" to get rid of my homosexuality and my constant problem of questioning leadership. I still suffer from that abuse today and is not something I can easily move past, or away from. They have in essence ruined a good part of my life and adult psyche.
I’m signing this for the justice of the many who went through this in the first 30yrs of the group’s existence. I myself went through some of these just not the sexual abuse as I was around mainly in the era of ‘TFI’.
Never forget what they did to us. They told us it was gods will but it was just pure evil.
I was there in the 80s and the stories about the beatings and the food denial are 100 percent real. They destroyed so many kids lives. Glad people are finally speaking out about the nightmare we lived through.
All these statements are accurate. I can attest to this because I was there and both suffered and witnessed systematic sexual, physical, and mental abuse until I escaped at age 15 in 1995... The victims deserve justice and should not be the ones ashamed to speak!
It is disgusting and cruel that innocent children were made to suffer at the hands of these perpetrators.I don't care one bit if they thought they were doing it out of 'love' or following their cult leader.There is no excuse for these cruel and selfish acts.Grown ups know right from wrong and they made their choice and there needs to be consequences for their actions.They should be made to suffer like they made Children suffer for all those years.Sadly we have lost many along the way from feeling they needed a way out of their pain physically,emotionally and mentally.It is horrible to think that certain individuals could cause so much agonising pain towards Children they should have been protecting and making them feel safe but no they did not anything of the sort.They abused their power and failed in a big way.
Just wrong
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I was present for a variety of beatings and other human rights violations as well as having been witness to sexual abuse and molestation of minors which resulted in members involved being quietly removed from the home with none of the abuses reported to the proper authorities. I would be willing to testify under oath that the above statement is true.