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THE RT. HON. LORD JUSTICE WARD DATED 19TH OCTOBER 1995
W 42 1992 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
FAMILY DIVISION
PRINCIPAL REGISTRY IN THE MATTER OF ST (A MINOR)
AND IN THE MATTER OF THE SUPREME COURT ACT 1991h
Lord Justice Ward
IMPAIRMENT OF EMOTIONAL, SOCIAL OR BEHAVIOURAL DEVELOPMENT
This is an important topic. I must deal with a number of
areas of concern, covering such matters as the emotional
pressure to conform and to remain faithful; the loss of
identity, self esteem and self respect and loss of freedom;
isolation from the community and from the natural family and
so forth. These are all matters particularly affecting the
JETTS and teens. The JETTS are the 11-13 year old group, the
junior teens are 14 and 15, the senior teen 16 and 17 and
the Experimental Adults are the 18-20 year olds.
Although some of the early members of the group would have
brought their children with them, it was not until about
1985 that World Services appeared to have become concerned
about the problem confronting the teenage children who had
been born into the movement and grown up within the
movement. I must therefore consider the last decade or so of
The Family's life. I shall endeavour to set out the
developments chronologically and to correlate what was
happening generally with what was happening to the children
in this country over the past 5 years. To set that scene, I
remind myself of the background against which these events
were taking place. In particular:-
1 Early members were drawn from the hippy community. They
were the drop-outs from a society whose religious, moral,
social and political values they scorned and rejected. The
message David Berg preached gave their life meaning and gave
them hope. It was a 'revolutionary' message with the plain
intent of overthrowing a secular order imposed by a system
in the hands of Satan. Contact with the system was,
therefore, contact with the Enemy. Fraternising with the
enemy was punishable by God. As an example of what befell
those who ceased to be members, the letter 'IRFers Beware:
If you fail to tithe, God will take a collection!" written
in February 1988 told the story of a former member who was
raped and murdered because she had lapsed. The message of
the letter was:-
"So it looks to me more like she may have reaped what she
sowed and got what she deserved rather than died as a
martyr.. I just don't believe God would let something like
that happen to one of his absolutely dedicated wholehearted
100% full time servants or handmaidens if they were serving
the Lord full time sincerely or doing the best they can to
support God's works".
2. The metaphor of an army was frequently and powerfully
deployed. It served to reinforce the messages of the
paramount need for obedience and loyalty and also the
draconian penalties, always imposed for mutiny and
desertion.
3. Since the early days in the 1970's when influential
parents of a young convert brought the Children of God to
the attention of Governor Ronald Reagan and to the media,
the movement has lived under the sword of persecution.
Persecution drove David Berg into hiding; persecution drove
them from Tenerife; persecution led to their retreat to the
Philippines. To counter persecution, the movement resorted
to secrecy. They used the word "Selah" for all things that
were secret. In 1976, 'Gotcher Flee Bag' gave advice on how
important it was to carry the few vital possessions one
needed to make a quick escape. The Family literature was
kept in a trunk and systems were imposed to ensure that its
precious secret (which is a euphemism for incriminating)
contents could be removed before the authorities could lay
hands on them. I heard evidence of raids by the police in
India and I am not in doubt about the intense security
precautions that perforce were considered to be essential.
4. What bound the movement together was a religious
fervour. They believed - so far as I know they still believe
- that the End-time is at hand (even if some deadlines have
passed!) The message that was preached and received was that
one chose the prospect of eternal salvation or faced the
certainty of eternal damnation. It is a message of all or
nothing. An inevitable consequence in logic and on Biblical
authority was to 'forsake all'. This call has been made from
the earliest days of the movement. In 1972 in the 'One Wife'
letter, Berg wrote about God being:-
"In the business of breaking up little selfish private
worldly families to make of their yielded broken pieces a
larger unit of one Family....don't forget this means your
children also. If you love your flesh and blood children
more than you love God's children of God's Family, then you
really haven't come to the realisation of what God's Family
is all about."
As recently as March 1993 Maria wrote to a leader who was
having 'some trials over the fact that she and her children
often had to be apart because of her work'. Maria said:-
"It makes your heart ache because it is so difficult for
them to understand why they can't be with you or you with
them. We feel terrible when our children have difficulties
and we can't do anything to prevent it, we can only pray for
them. But often it seems to me that this is part of our (and
their) forsaking all for Him and His Work - forsaking
mothers and fathers and children so we can put His Work
first - and our children having forsaken their mothers and
fathers for the very high privilege of being a member of his
family."
So much for the ethos of The Family. In dealing with its
more recent history as World Services presented it to me, I
note how after RNR in 1978 The Family was driven underground
by the 'anti-cult hysteria' following the Jonestown tragedy
"with the media fuelling the public's outrage and fears,
extreme prejudice and animosity towards new religious
movements were the order of the day." Berg's response was to
scatter The Family into smaller communities because:-
"Sometimes one of the smartest things you can do is to make
your enemy think he has won! Make him think he has
accomplished his purpose. When their target disappears
they've got nothing to shoot at! The game is over and the
enemy feels like, 'well, we accomplished our purpose!' (from
Furlougher Backslider- or Supporter? July 1979)."
The Family were urged to begin their mobile ministry and
became fragmented. They did not die. Indeed they
spectacularly exploited the media through their broadcasting
of their message through tapes and videos created by Music
with Meaning. The circulation of the videos brought The
Family together again. By 1983 many had returned to
co-operative living especially as The Family continued its
migration south and east. World services and Berg himself
established a headquarters in the Philippines. It was there
that MB joined them at the end of 1983. In 1984 The Family
had to endure the unfavourable publicity of Deborah Davis,
Berg's daughter, publishing her revelations about the inside
story of life within The Family. In 1985 MB would have been
13 years old and Davidito 10. As I have already set out, The
Family were already beginning to cope with the difficulties
of adolescence about which Berg had written his 'Early
Teens' letter. 1986 saw the gathering of the teens mostly
aged 12 to 14 at the Mexican TTC. The Family says it then
learnt of some of the sexual exploitation of these children.
This had been revealed by the confessions made by the
children through some early form of Open Heart Report (OHR).
As larger teen homes operating virtually as 'high schools'
began to develop through 1987, The Family became aware of
the diverse activities, practices and disciplinary standards
that were applied throughout the movement. Berg and his
household were becoming aware of the difficulties which MB
was undergoing. This section on emotional and psychological
abuse must, once again, start with MB.
Her father had died when she was a toddler. Whether his
death was suicide or an accident, is by no means clear:
there are some strong indications that he took his own life.
Her mother, Shula, was 'mated' with Andy Irwin. They had a
child Adonis. MB had no contact with other half brothers and
sisters. At an early age she was removed from her mother and
was in the care of her grandmother, Mother Eve, Berg's wife.
Her first knowledge of sex and her first sexual encounter
came during that time with her grandmother. After some years
it was a shock to her to see her mother and Adonis again and
there was an unfortunate encounter as mother and grandmother
struggled almost literally for her possession. The mother
won. A few years later aged 9 she joined Music with Meaning
in Greece. As I have already set out, it was there that she
was filmed and abused. Berg must have known it for he would
have seen the videos. In the history before 1980 it is
acknowledged that 'these unique circumstances (in MWM)
fostered a unique liberal sexual climate as well.' Berg must
have known about that as well. In the last state Sara
records:-
"At only 9 and 10 years old she freely watched adult videos,
plus she was showered with attention by many of the men
there which caused her to have an extremely high opinion of
herself and this became of major importance to her."
Then, at the age of about 111ò2 she was sent to her
Grandfather's compound in the Philippines. She met him in
December 1983. She was completely overwhelmed by him. He
looked like the prophet of God for the End-Time which she
truly believed him to be. She told me in evidence that she
had 'utter respect, fear and terror, love and adoration for
him and because he was my grandfather, I also had more
sentimental feelings for him.' That state of veneration did
not last. As the months and years went by, his feet of clay
were revealed. He drank too much, as is acknowledged in 'The
Last State'. His language was coarse. He publicly fondled
women in his household. He called upon them for sexual
comforts. He made prophecies which did not come true. He was
contradictory. He began to request MB to 'share' with men,
for example her step-father Angel a Leader in the public
relations section. Eventually he abused her and he manually
ruptured her hymen. She became filled with doubt. That
was hardly surprising. The confession of these doubts to
Sara was at first sympathetically dealt with although Sara
was driven to warn MB that doubting let the Devil in. She
believed it. She believed in Satan. She feared him. But they
were always encouraged to confess whatever was bothering
them and MB was under a compulsion to make admissions even
if, in the beginning at least, only partial admissions. When
she was about 14, she again started recording her thoughts.
She was again at first treated sympathetically by Sara,
Maria and Peter Amstersdam. I accept that evidence. Milk of
human kindness does flow through their veins and I must not
forget it. By now MB was beginning to doubt. It seems common
ground that she believed she was seeing devils and she
complained that they were attacking her sexually. She
expressed violent anger towards her grandfather. JC spoke of
reports that she was trying to stick scissors up her vagina.
On many an occasion I have had psychiatrists tell me that
sexualised behaviour is often displayed by those who have
been sexually abused. That thought did not cross The
Family's mind or if it did they ignored it. They made the
diagnosis of spiritual problems and treated her accordingly.
I have dealt with the errors in diagnosis and treatment
already. I will not have conveyed fully the tremendous
pressure they put this young child under. There was not then
and nor is there now any appreciation at all by The Family
of the torment inflicted on this child. They urged
confession upon her. She was obedient by nature. She
confessed. She wanted to confess her doubts because doubts
let the Devil in and she was afraid of Satan. She wanted to
be right with God. The Family was all she knew. The Family
was all she had. She wanted their approval. Sara recounts:-
"A year and a half after the teen training programme and
when the searchers and other ambassador leadership were
here, MB finally, after much probing, further shared some of
the devil and witchcraft she had been deeply involved in and
by that time she had almost stopped believing in the word
and was doubting her salvation. The leadership here talked
and prayed and exorcised her several times.. After 2 months
and five major exorcisms over her, MB began to improve on a
slow day to day basis. She was totally immersed in the word
full time with top leadership reading aloud along with her
to keep her mind and mouth and eyes and ears occupied and
for a constant infilling of the Holy Spirit. Eventually she
was nearly completely healed even of this constant mental
and spiritual warfare of the Enemy and even these horrible
pictures, which were now gradually fading away. Jesus never
failed, as every time we prayed over her, even 50 times day,
the Lord's mighty power would overcome and put a stop to
this evil."
I have also set out how MB was beaten by her grandfather,
slapped or 'swatted' by Peter Amsterdam and by others. MB
told me. "It was humiliating because these people were
important to me."
In my judgment what MB went through was a form of torture.
To describe her ordeal, as it is portrayed to The Family in
the 'False Accusers in the Last Days' letter published in
January 1993, as being no more than a 'stiff stern talk with
a little spank and a shaking' is, I find a travesty of the
truth which is elsewhere recorded in their own documents. My
findings will no doubt be rejected by The Family because, as
they write in the same document, 'Spiritual truths (are)
incomprehensible to flatlanders'. As a System judge, I am an
archetypal flatlander.
MB's punishment was to be sent to Macau in mid 1987. Macau
was a Teens Detention Camp. The Family prefer to call it a
camp for Determined Teens, determined, that is to make
change. I have no doubt it was more a case of The Family
determined to change the Teens. It is difficult to be
certain of the chronology of developing ideas for
controlling the young, sometimes bored, disaffected,
disobedient adolescents. It seems likely that ideas grew
from Sara's experience with her group including MB, Davidito
and Techi to a bigger grouping in the Philippines called the
Jumbo.
THE PHILIPPINES JUMBO
It seems likely that a teen school was established here in
about 1986 or 1987 but the precise time may not much matter.
Another large "combo" had been established by Faithy in
Japan some time in about 1984. I suspect there was a
considerable cross fertilisation of ideas between the two.
The 'Jumbo Story' has been written but only parts 4 and 5
have been produced and they do not deal with the way the
children were treated. Although I raise an eyebrow at this
omission, it does not appear to me to be sinister in the
context of the whole case. Some features of life as
practised in the Jumbo, even if not started in the Jumbo
have been widely followed. One of them is the Demerit system
of which both JG and SD spoke. I have some literature about
it. There is a Family Special News by Sara Davidito on 'The
Demerit System - finding the balance' written in July 1987.
She had been reading the childcare reports from a new combo
and the reference to Marianne suggests it must be the
Philippines combo. Sara wrote that the demerit system was
actually instituted in her home for teen training programmes
for ages 10-14 and the matter was apparently discussed in a
series on teen training which draw on material which had
been used in the various teen training camps around the
world. The children were grouped by age, the 4-6 year olds
and 7-12 year olds. A list of offences earning a demerit
were specified ranging from no talking during quiet times to
a double demerit for murmuring, complaining or criticising.
7 demerits resulted in disciplinary action (a spanking or
being deprived of parent time). Sara referred to sharing the
children's daily reports and the teens' open heart
reactions. She started scheme to encourage teens to dictate
a personal reaction tape every 2 weeks, or when needed,
confessing any trials or questions about their working
relationships with overseers and peers. This was what had
been required of MB. Sara made the concession that:-
"Many of the teens and older kids had not been dealt with
properly through the years due to many mistakes and the fact
that they were our 'experimental generation".
Sara also acknowledged that there was an element of 'public
humiliation for getting so many demerits'. There was indeed!
It placed a heavy burden upon the children.
Maria wrote in commendably sensitive terms:-
"The danger is, we can turn out perfectly behaved children
who are really quite screwed up because of the way they have
been treated and raised. Our ultimate goal is not to have
perfect children, but well adjusted children and by well
adjusted we mean loving, caring, feeling confident of the
Lord's love and of our love, mature in the spirit and loving
the Lord and his Word and having faith in the Lord. But so
much depends on how they are treated and raised, especially
from a young age. Having too strict and too many rules may
result in submission, but not out of the right motivation."
That valuable advice may not have been fully practiced. JG
who felt that he was sent to the Jumbo as a punishment for
wishing to play his guitar, considered that his time at the
Jumbo was a time "trying to put me in a mould - they looked
at it as training to be leaders for the End Time."
It would seem that Open Heart Reports were being used daily.
In the "Jumbo Story No. 5," it was written - not
specifically with children in mind - that OHR's were "a very
good way for the leadership to stay intimately involved with
the different situations and personnel in the camp". Some of
the teens soon learned how to play the system. JG realised
that to reveal doubts in the OHR's to the shepherds was
permissible activity which was treated with prayers whereas
revealing the same doubts to his peers was murmuring and was
punished with long talks, written reactions, silence
restriction or corporal punishment.
Another feature of the Jumbo was the use of silence
restrictions. SPM said that this was begun in the teen home
in the Philippines in about 1987/1988 and some of the people
who had run that home were involved in the teen home in
Wantage and used the procedure there. He said:
"It was not used throughout the whole of the family. It
appears to have been a local initiative. When I raised it
with World Services as a result of this case, I was advised
they didn't really know anything about it. It was not Family
policy."
That evidence was neither full nor frank. As I shall
explain, there was a great deal more to it than that and
either SPM was telling me half the truth or World Services
were telling him only a part of the story.
The corporal punishment meted out for obtaining too many
demerits was by means of a "paddling", being beaten with a
flat "paddle" which, as variously described to me was about
2 to 3 feet long with the paddle being about 6 to 8 inches
long, 4 inches wide and an inch thick. Sometimes it had
holes drilled through it.
The majority of the children at the combo were there without
their parents. Among the adults at the combo were JD and ED
and Mary Malaysia. They feature in the case later.
THE TTC IN JAPAN
I have little direct knowledge of this school. SD believed,
rightly or wrongly, that the silence restrictions imposed
upon him at the Jumbo were modelled on the Japanese
experience. Given the high degree of reporting to World
Services and the distribution of the information throughout
the group, I am in little doubt that there was a
cross-fertilisation of many ideas. A number of them would
have been initiated by Sara Davidito and Maria in their teen
training programmes conducted in their own compound as they
grappled with the difficulties presented by MB, and Techi
and others. Maria has described the teen schools as
undertaking a "revolutionary boot camp training programme",
the task of which was:-
"To teach and train and closely shepherd these poor, needy
teens and prepare them for the field. This is probably these
teens last chance to really make it for the Lord. ... We're
supposed to be single mindedly, whole heartedly and with
great concentration fighting the devil as a huge warfare for
the lives and training of leadership, children and teens."
(The emphasis is Maria's)
The close shepherding clearly involved concentrated
attention
upon the need to reveal doubts and difficulties in the Open
Heart Reports, and then to deal with them, I have no doubt,
lovingly and sympathetically, but with a heavy emphasis on
reading the Word, which would include the Mo Letters, where
necessary writing reactions and, if the difficulties
persisted, having desperate prayer sessions to overcome the
perceived problem.
I also have no doubt that the teen schools in operation in
Japan and elsewhere operated in accordance with the "Basic
Training Handbook" published in February 1987. Its
introduction offered the children the opportunity:
"To personally experience teen training so that you can take
up the challenge to become a teen soldier and disciple of
Jesus Christ! This power packed handbook is specially
written and designed for the feeding, teaching, inspiration
and guidance of you family teens, our hope for the future!
In order to fully benefit from the wonderful counsel in this
your own basic training handbook, before you even read your
first article, you'll need to promise to be open and
receptive to life changing lessons to come, and be ready,
yielded and willing to forsake any of your old ideas which
are not truly revolutionary so that you can become a new
creature and a true soldier of Christ. Teen training
involves a serious personal commitment to dedicated
discipleship. Please desperately pray before reading each
article in this book that you will be able to personally
apply each lesson to your own needs and spiritual life.
Please try to read these articles out loud and unitedly
along with another teen or an adult or teacher so that you
can fully concentrate and capture the spirit and message
herein."
I have not had sight of the whole of the manual. The goals
at the TTC included:-
"1. To give our all to Jesus, no matter what tries to stop
us.
2. To become revolutionaries for God's entire army.
21. To get training which is chastisement for the End time.
22. To learn yieldedness which is the opposite of
rebelliousness and stubbornness.
25. To change and be willing to change
39. To learn how to take correction
54. To learn to be security minded
55. To learn how not to space out or day dream"
I have sight of the "prayer requests of the teens, first
Sunday fellowship Japan TTC:"
"We had desperate prayer and laying on of hands for
deliverance and prayed individually for each of these
specific requests:
For immediate obedience
Against system influence through books
To receive correction
To be able to forsake those in our family who aren't
following Jesus
Against compromise with the system" (and even)
"Against fear of gaining weight."
Having looked at the pictures of the children in Japan,
having seen the video of the Mexican TTC and having read
some of the comment, I am in no doubt that these training
camps were highly emotionally charged and pressurized
environments for children. They existed for the purpose of
changing the children and shaping their lives in order to
mould them to The Family's image. The cost to the children
was to rob them of their personal identity. It was an
invasion of personal freedom. I can well understand that
this process sends shivers of apprehension down the spine of
this grandmother and of many, many who think like her, all
of whom have good cause for alarm. The regime does not win
the support of Doctor Cameron who considers it an undue
pressure on an impressionable young mind. Nevertheless,
sympathetic as I am to those opinions, I cannot find that
the essentially religious experience of renewal which was
undergone, and in many cases even enjoyed, by these
teenagers was so extreme that I can properly find on a
balanced view that it was significantly harmful to the
emotional and psychological well being of those children.
Macau
I am far from tolerant about what took place here. This
disgraceful experiment in childcare lasted from at least
1987 to 1990.
In a Teen Special published in November 1992, The Family
describe the Special Teen programme in Macau in these
terms:-
"This voluntary programme was established to help a small
handful of teens who needed more individualised guidance and
encouragement to overcome long standing serious personal
problems. While in this programme, the teens received
exceptionally close shepherding in a small personal family
atmosphere, with lots of love and prayer, individualised
personal training, hours and hours of personal counselling,
specialised Word classes that were often spoon-fed to the
teens, and a consistent daily schedule of typical boarding
school-style discipline, administered with patience, prayer,
reasoning and understanding. They worked on a farm in rural
surroundings, learning to channel their energies into a
product of pursuits. The teens of this programme dubbed
themselves "the determined teens" - determined to make the
changes that they realised they needed in their habits or
attitudes. They aspired to successfully graduate so they
could join other family teens, and be trusted to be given
valuable training, or to carry positions of responsibility."
That was the propaganda which was fed to the teenagers in
1992, and having heard from and seen a number of the
teenagers who were at Macau, I am in no doubt at all that it
was a travesty of the truth thus to describe that programme.
The truth is that the children were subjected to a regime of
physical and psychological brutality. Paddlings were a
regular feature of life in the camp. The children were
systematically beaten in it. I had that evidence not only
from MB and JG but from one of The Family's own witnesses
DR. She recalls being beaten five times. On one occasion she
recalls being given ten "swats". She was bruised. She gave
evidence that she was beaten because she was "super proud,
cocky. There was nothing in the paddling that was wrong. I
agreed to it. It made me realise there was something wrong
with me."
DR sought to challenge evidence MB had given me about a girl
T1 whom MB described as running around the room to avoid
being beaten by Michael Gambrill, who was in charge of that
camp. MB had described that Michael was "trying to exorcize
rebellion out of her." This is DR's description of what
happened:
"She was rebellious. She was going to get four swats. Got
one, and freaked out. Michael tried to calm her down. She
didn't. She put her hands on her bottom. Finally he got her
to move her hands. She got two more swats. She was pretty
shook up. Freaking out. Putting her hands there and saying
"please no more," and crying. So he stopped."
I believe JG was describing the same event when he spoke of:
"One girl collapsed half way through her paddling. They held
her up to hit her a few more times and finally dragged her
half conscious to her room."
MB spoke of another girl who was slapped and became so upset
that she could not talk properly but was stuttering
incoherently. The reaction of the shepherds was to say that
she was possessed of deaf and dumb spirits and so they held
an exorcism, talking in tongues over her.
DR's description of MB's being paddled was that MB had been
talking uncontrollably all night keeping everyone awake and
it was thought that a few swats would wake her up. She was
given a few swats and she just kept "right on talking". She
got about five. They took her out but brought her back and
tried to stop her talking. When she started to smash things
up and throwing things, they tied her to her bed with
cloth-like ties. She was by then incoherent. A couple of
days later they took her to the mental institution. This was
barbarous treatment of a girl who was in fact in need of
psychiatric help.
DR herself felt that she was going insane. She said she was
an avid day-dreamer who did not know how to control her mind
and was on a path leading to the spirit world where the
spirits would devour her if she continued. She was tortured
by these thoughts pretty much all of her waking hours, she
said. Her thoughts became violent when she thought of
killing people and hurting people "which are attacks of the
Devil."
It was JG's impression that:
"Most of the children there were shipped in from other
countries because they had deep psychological problems as a
result of being in The Family, in my opinion. I would call
them "mental." Three of them were completely irrational and
were hallucinating. Some of them thought that they were
seeing demons, some others fancied their idea of eating
"horse shit" and most of the time walked around dazed. I and
a few others were the only ones who were not "mental". One
of them, Ben, later committed suicide. Throughout the time I
knew him, he desperately wanted to leave the group but was
always prevented and failed in his attempts to run away.
Other teenagers at the camp mentioned that they wanted to
kill themselves but they were usually severely beaten for
saying so. The youngest child I met at the camp was 11. He
had tried to jump off the roof of his commune in India, and
so had been sent to the detention centre in the hope of
solving his problems."
Ben did eventually leave the family. His Traumatic Testimony
was described the Teen Special to which I have referred. It
was made required reading for teens aged 14 and over as "a
sobering warning about the sins of bitterness, unyieldedness
and rebellion." Michael wrote in that letter:
"We really loved Ben and tried everything we know to help
him as did many others. He had many very loving and
dedicated shepherds who spent hours, days, and weeks
counselling him. It's so sad he chose to throw it all away."
To take that view of what was happening in Macau deeply
disturbs me. The truth is that these children were there to
have their spirits broken by whatever means it took, and
loving kindness was not the primary means deployed. These
children were the "bad apples" who were removed from the
bosom of the family for fear of contaminating those who were
more amenable to the regime. They were dispatched to a
punishment camp for punishment. I have no doubt that within
their own definition, the shepherds there did act "in love"
when handing out their punishments. Their failure to
appreciate that their actions were nonetheless abusive to
the children in their care is frightening. DR herself told
me that it was "her considered view" that there was "nothing
oppressive about anyone's treatment in Macau." She said that
with conviction but she equally told me that "I guess they
should have learnt by the Summer of 1990 that (silence
restriction) doesn't work and there was no reason for it".
She told me that "In Macau there were no guidelines and they
did not really know what they were doing." She told me,
"Things were taken to the extreme before they were stopped."
She knew perfectly well from bitter personal experience that
the regime in Macau was brutally oppressive but she could
make no unequivocal condemnation because to do so would be
to fall into the trap of murmuring, rebelling, being proud,
manifesting, in other words, all the deadly sins intolerable
to The Family's way of life. Freedom of thought was the
crime for which she was banished to Macau. Freedom of
thought was beaten out of her in Macau. Though DR lives on,
the spirit of a young girl died in Macau. It is time The
Family faced that truth.
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