that's bravery
At 12, the cult saw you as an adult, available sexually
As the fortune teller stared into her crystal ball, I shook with fear. In the darkness outside the tent, there was music and dancing. It could have been any party, anywhere in the world. But just 12 years old, I was trapped in a cult compound in a foreign country.
The name I was about to hear would be the adult I’d be forced to have sex with that night.
I’d been born inside the Children of God cult in July 1972.
My mum, Deborah, was
