“Cult” child abuse cases often bungled (inc. 12t.)

Source: Cult News ,30 October 2002 An excellent editorial appeared in the Edmonton Journal written by Paula Simons regarding the background history of a Canadian “cult” child abuse case. Lucille Poulin, the leader of the “Four Winds Commune” was convicted on five counts of assault for beating children within her group. Her defense was essentially…

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The most dangerous cult of all

Robert T. Pardon   Bob Pardon is director of the New England Institute of Religious Research (NEIRR), and of MeadowHaven, a cult recovery facility, in Lakeville, Massachusetts (see www.neirr.org).  He has been an AIIA Resource Associate since 1995. I recently received an e-mail that contained the following message in its subject line: “URGENT CRISIS!” My…

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“Cults” go “Phishing”

Source: Cult News December 22, 2000 Rick Ross Since the death of Jerry Garcia in 1995 another band called the Phish seems to have filled the void that the Grateful Dead left behind. “Phish heads” have largely replaced the cult following of the “Dead heads” that once wandered nomadically from concert to concert devoted to…

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A NEW REFUGE FOR WALKAWAYS

The Boston Globe Jordana Hatt 8/25/99 Lakeville – A nursing home that sits empty and ramshackle in farm country about 50 miles south of Boston is slated to open next summer as the nations first residential home for people who have left or escaped religious mind-control groups.The New England Institute of Religious Research, which says…

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