1993
From XFamily - Children of God
- River Phoenix overdoses.
- The Family's Homes are raided by police in Argentina under various charges of child abuse.
- Over 50 adults are arrested and 140 children taken into custody in France.
- The Family encounters legal problems in Peru.
- The Family encounters legal problems in the USA.
[edit] Press coverage
- Salt Lake Tribune: Radical religious group returns to U.S. — 1993-03-20
- Los Angeles Times: A True Conversion? — 1993-03-21
- Essex Chronicle: 'I lost husband, home and almost my sanity to cult' — 1993-03-25
- Washington Post: 'The Family' and Final Harvest — 1993-06-02
- Rocky Mountain News: Police Raid Children Of God Homes Sweep Nets 52 Arrest — 1993-06-11
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Ventana: La Secta los Niños de Dios Bajo Lupa del Juez de Menores Cámpora — 1993-07
- The Independent: Cult denies child sex abuse — 1993-07-02
- Press-Enterprise: The Family's values disputed — 1993-07-25
- Associated Press: `The Family' wants cult-hunting group dissolved — 1993-08-04
- Washington Post: 30 Members of Children Of God Arrested — 1993-09-02
- Chattanooga Times: Cult crackdown — 1993-09-03
- Daily Mail: House of croquet and free love — 1993-09-03
- Daily Mail: Yard probe into child cult — 1993-09-03
- Evening Standard: We swap wives in the name of Jesus, says cult — 1993-09-03
- New York Times: Argentines Say a Sex Cult Enslaved 268 Children — 1993-09-03
- The Guardian: Charges against cult blamed on ex-members — 1993-09-03
- Los Angeles Times: 58 Americans Held in Argentina Sex-Sect Raid — 1993-09-04
- London Times: The day the 'Martians' woke up — 1993-09-05
- The Independent: Gideon's Bible of Free Love 1993-09-05
- The Observer: Members put on defensive by raids — 1993-09-05
- Toronto Star: 33-year-old Metro woman linked to sex-for-salvation cult — 1993-09-06
- Toronto Star: Metro woman in 'sex cult' probe — 1993-09-06
- Houston Chronicle: Members of sect say they're being persecuted — 1993-09-07
- Hamilton Spectator: Burlington kin support alleged cult leader — 1993-09-07
- Toronto Star: Sect members deny abuse stories — 1993-09-07
- Toronto Star: Two Canadian cult members arrested in Argentina — 1993-09-07
- Toronto Star: Anti-cult organization blamed for arrests — 1993-09-08
- Toronto Star: Sect members face sex, abduction charges — 1993-09-08
- Hamilton Spectator: Cult includes brother of suspect woman — 1993-09-09
- Hamilton Spectator: Member says he saw child sex abuse inside cult — 1993-09-09
- Hamilton Spectator: We will be completely vindicated, says Susan — 1993-09-09
- Los Angeles Times: Paraguay Police Raid Home Owned by Cult Suspected of Child Abuse — 1993-09-09
- Hamilton Spectator: Cult provided sex services to strangers — 1993-09-10
- Kitchener-Waterloo Record: Defending the Family — 1993-09-10
- Houston Chronicle: Cult's image unfairly soiled, member says — 1993-09-11
- South China Morning Post: More accusations against Children of God — 1993-09-12
- SOMOS: Los Niños de Dios - Como Fue la Investigacion — 1993-09-13
- Toronto Star: Couple held after bid to visit kids in custody — 1993-09-13
- Clarin: Piden a Interpol la captura del reverendo que fundó la secta — 1993-09-15
- Gente: Habla Joyanne Treadwell Berg — 1993-09-15
- Toronto Star: 'We've been totally and falsely accused' Family mom insists — 1993-09-15
- Columbus Dispatch: Columbus woman says she escaped cult horrors — 1993-09-16
- Hamilton Spectator: Cult woman's jail treatment 'atrocious' — 1993-09-17
- Macleans: Not a normal family — 1993-09-20
- Toronto Star: Tests disprove sect's family ties — 1993-09-21
- Columbus Dispatch: Woman seeking to get cult-controlled kin out of Argentina — 1993-09-25
- Cronica: "Niños de Dios": Liberan a una Nena y la Entregan a su padre Brasileño — 1993-09-25
- La Nacion: Tres paises reclamaron niños que vivian con La Familia — 1993-09-25
- New York Times: 66 U.S. Cultists Still Being Held in Argentina — 1993-09-26
- Columbus Dispatch: Woman says siblings are brainwashed cult victims — 1993-10-05
- Houston Chronicle: Children of God Cult Returns as The Family — 1993-10-10
- Houston Chronicle: Elusive "father' of cult has held a following for 25 years — 1993-10-10
- Philadelphia Inquirer: Church declines to aid sect accused of abusing children — 1993-10-19
- Christianity Today: Sex Abuse Charges Disputed — 1993-10-25
- Noticias a Fondo: ¿Quien Ampara a la secta Niños de Dios? — 1993-11
- Sydney Morning Herald: The Family's Planning — 1993-11-06
- Página 12: Reclamos por La Familia — 1993-11-13
- Cronica: "Niños de Dios": Padres Reclaman — 1993-11-30
- The Age: Push For Family Dispute Settlement — 1993-12-07
- La Nacion: Los Ninos de Dios, exegeta con vertientes sexuales — 1993-12-09
- Hamilton Spectator: Cult leader fears AIDS scare at jail — 1993-12-11
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The Family: Hippie throwback or dangerous, abusive cult — 1993-12-12
- Hamilton Spectator: Burlington woman free in Argentina cult case — 1993-12-14
- Toronto Star: Argentine court frees Canadians in sex case — 1993-12-14
- La Nacion: Quarracino cuestiono por TV la liberacion de miembros de una secta — 1993-12-19
- Protagonistas de Mercedes: Informe especial sobre libertad — 1993-12-20
- Protagonistas de Mercedes: Llego hasta Mercedes el consul de E.E.U.U. — 1993-12-27
[edit] Television coverage
- CBS News: Dozens of American children picked up during police raid on Argentinian branch of international cult — 1993-09-03
- CNN Headline News: Religious Sect Accused of Child Abuse and Pornography — 1993-09-03
- CNN Larry King Live: 'The Family' - Preachers or Pornographers? — 1993-10-20
- NBC Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric — 1993-09-08
- American Journal with Nancy Glass — 1993-09
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