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<div style="padding: 1em; margin: 10px; border: 2px dotted green;"> ==Murder-suicide blamed on mother's cult== [[:Category:Press|Press]] &raquo; [[:Category:Press:UPI|UPI]] &raquo; [[2007]]-12-04 TUCSON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The [[Ricky Rodriguez's death|suicide]] of a young man and the [[Angela Smith's death|murder]] he allegedly committed earlier in Arizona are being blamed on a [[cult]] led by his mother, [[CNN Anderson Cooper 360: Twisted Cult|a report]] says. Former members of the sect known as "[[The Family International]]" told [[:Category:Press:CNN|CNN]] that they witnessed [[Ricky Rodriguez]] having sex with his mother, [[Karen Zerby]], the cult leader. Rodriguez in [[2005]] allegedly stabbed a woman to death in his Tucson, Ariz. apartment and then fled to the California desert where he shot himself. The Family International was founded in California in the [[1960s]] by [[David Berg]], who referred to himself as "Mo," short for Moses. The sect's activities and history are detailed in a newly released book, "[[Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge|Jesus Freaks]]." Former sect members also told CNN that cult founder David Berg encouraged [[:Category:Pedophilia|adult-child sex]], frequently with Rodriguez, the son of Karen Zerby, whom Berg called his queen. "Jesus Freaks" author [[Don Lattin]] says Berg "wanted his child to embrace [[:Category:Sexuality|sexuality]], to be a sexual being as an infant and growing up." Since Berg's death, The Family International now says all "questionable [[:Category:Family Publications|publications]] were [[Purge|officially renounced and expunged]] between the late [[1980s]] and early [[1990s]]." </div> [[Category:Press:UPI]]

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