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The FLDS don't want change, but the changes
are coming swiftly, like or not.

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The children of God, are they sorry for what
they did?

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Do they have any remorse?

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People need to know that Sanctuary Church
isn't a Christian organization.

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They have someone who has guns who believes
the world is trying to attack them.

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I'm Elizabeth Vargas and this is A&E
Investigates.

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Cults and extreme belief, sexual abuse and
manipulation, arranged marriages, families

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torn apart.

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In a moment, an extraordinary gathering.

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I'm sitting down with survivors from three of
the most scandalous religious groups in

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America.

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FLDS, the Unification Church and Splinter
Group.

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The Sanctuary Church and children of God.

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While the people you're about to meet come
from different backgrounds, they were all

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born into their religions and grew up knowing
nothing else.

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Imagine how hard it must have been for them
to get out and the strength required to come

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forward now and tell their stories.

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It's nice to have you all, just to fill
everybody in on who everybody is.

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Dr. Janja Lalich is an expert in cults, has
written several books on this, has spent

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years studying it and interviewing people
who've been members of cults.

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Amy Brill was a member of Children of God,
born into this group, many call a cult,...

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Amy.

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At the age of eight, Amy was sent away to
live with the leader of the group.

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And at the age of 13, declared one of his
many brides.

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I had been really abused as a child.

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David Berg very cleverly manipulated those
that he drew into his inner circle to believe

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that he was truly a prophet and a visionary
that was going to liberate all of us from

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the shackles of society.

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But actually, we were a liberated Christian
sex cult.

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Make your body my temple and I'll come in.

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This is the temple of God today.

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William Lamont Barlow was a member of FLDS,
born also into this group, fundamentalist

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Mormons, believing in polygamy, led currently
by Warren Jeffs, who is in prison for life,

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for arranging child marriages.

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Marriages were done by assignment and
controlled by Warren Jeffs.

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I do believe the FLDS is a cult.

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If you can control who marries who, you have
a hell of a lot of power.

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Anytime you give absolute power, it corrupts
absolutely.

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And that's what happened here.

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And finally, Teddy Hoes was born into the
Unification Church.

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Many people call people who belong to this
church Moonies.

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In the Unification Church, there were mass
arranged marriages done by...