evanman wrote:I watched a recording of an interview with a child in Cog/TF. She was asked when the first time she had intercourse in the "Family". She replied that it happened when she was nine years old.
She had answered truthfully and honestly--she got severely disciplined for saying what she did!
I've never seen that interview but I don't find it at all surprising that a Family child who told the truth about being abused would be severely disciplined. As Acheick noted, both adults and children were given specific instructions to lie and warned of the dire consequences that would result if they told the outside world about the sexual "freedoms" practiced in the Family. Publications were distributed in which obvious lies were held up as shining examples of how to answer questions from the authorities. A good example of this is to be found in
GN 430 published in June 1990. In it there is the "testimony" of a 17-year-old who in answer to a question by authorities in 1989 says she "never" had sex. Every Family member reading that publication knew it was a lie and that in 1989 the idea that someone born in the Family could reach the age of 17 without ever having sex was preposterous. Only a few years earlier, in 1985 (which the Family claimed, in June 1992, was the year in which it banned and made adult-child sexual contact an excommunicable offense now they falsely claim it was 1986 when in fact the November 1986
Liberty or Stumblingblock? memo they falsely claimed was written in 1985 certainly did not make it an excommunicable offense and did not even ban it but only stated it was "strongly discouraged."), the pedophiles David Berg and Karen Zerby felt it neccesary to make a
rule that children under 15 couldn't have full sexual intercourse with each other and adults *after* they began to menstruate or produce semen but they were allowed to engage in other forms of sexual contact both before and after.
The Family not only instructed and trained children to lie about their experiences but also taught them that they were not abused (see GN 430 - "SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL FAMILY TEENS!—By WS Staff at Maria's Request"). Lest anyone get the mistaken idea that they have repented and are now teaching ther children the truth (that adults who have sexual contact with children have committed criminal acts of child sexual abuse that are harmful to children), their pedophile and child abuser spokesperson Claire Borowik continues to publically justify and advocate pedophillia, saying that it wasn't harmful and that it wasn't abuse. This explains why a reporter can show her a page from a a
Family publication with an image of an adult woman performing oral sodomy on a toddler and she can reply with a straight face that it was not sexual abuse and that "He was never taken advantage of. Rather he was allowed to explore his sexuality freely. He was allowed to explore as a young boy what comes naturally, and usually in our society, we do not allow such exploration." (
New York Times: Murder and Suicide Reviving Claims of Child Abuse in Cult)
I read an interesting
article in the New York Times the other day about pedophile groups on the Internet and how they try to justify and rationalize their behavior. Borowik's and The Family's shameless justification of pedophillia is eerily similar to those used by these vile pedophile groups.
Here are some interesting excerpts from the article:
Quote:
In the pedophiles’ world view, not all sexual abuse is abuse. There is widespread condemnation and hatred of adults who engage in forcible rape of children. But otherwise, acts of molestation are often celebrated as demonstrations of love.
Experts described the pedophiles’ online worldview as reflective of “neutralization,â€
