Brave survivor of Children of God sex cult where followers worshipped with mass orgies reveals abuse & trafficking hell
A BRAVE cult survivor has revealed the hell she faced at the hands of its warped sex-worshipping leaders before finally escaping.She spent her childhood moving from commune to commune in Mexico, Brazil and the US - with no knowledge of the outside worldIn 1968, a long-haired former priest David Berg founded “Teens for Christ” - a religious movement that attracted young runaways and hippies who were convinced an apocalypse was coming.
I fled 'exorcist' cult where newborn babies are savagely beaten - I was repeatedly raped & told I was the devil aged 3 Daniella says was trafficked as a child actress throughout Asia and Latin America - and made to sell and beg on the streets. “We called ourselves one big family,” she said, adding that a lot of time was spent “rehearsing answers about why we are not a cult”.She went onto to join the military as an intelligence officer - but said she found it to be like another cultThe disturbed founder of the Children of God, former priest David Berg who encouraged adults to have sex with childrenAt five-years-old, Daniella had already experienced sexual abuse. By six, she was having suicidal thoughts and knew she wanted out.
Kids inside the "colonies" were routinely whipped, beaten, deprived of their parents and forced to beg for donations on the streets.“Parents are raised on the entire concept of like you have to sacrifice your children for God,” Daniella said, and turn them into "God's perfect soldiers".“I had to get out before I was 16, because at 16 you're expected to have sex with whoever asks you and not use birth control as of course the cult wants you pregnant," she said.
It took her years to overcome the intense brainwashing she endured - but put herself through school and university, eventually graduating as valedictorian. “I think I joined the military for all the same reasons that my grandfather joined a cult," she said."But in fact, it's quite the same... I already knew how to just shut down my individuality... and be in a high-control group.
Daniella said: “What I think is most agonising is that people still act like the cult can just clean up their act and be better.“And if you talk to anyone who joined the Children of God, they'll be like ‘it started off so great. It was this group of young people and all about love and faith and Jesus’. And it wasn't.
Advocating a lifestyle of "group living", the movement had hundreds of communes spread across the world. "I think it suggests that there are some things that are so terrible that human beings just don't recover from them. That is what we went through."
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