Swiss Victor Camp

The Swiss Victor Program took place in Elgg, Switzerland. It was a copycat program of the likes run in Japan, the details of which had been published in Family GNs and FSMs. Ten JETTs were singled out because of their alleged spiritual problems of pride, self-righteousness, independence and being silly. The Victors were isolated from their peers in an attic room that had been converted into a classroom. At night, they slept on foam mattresses on the attic floor.

The ten children were placed on permanent silence restriction, were excluded from regular Home activities and performed all household chores in the Home.

The 32-day camp was run by Stefan Seibel. He administered punishment in the form of public and private beatings with a 4-foot plastic rod, hard manual labor, painful physical exercises and public humiliation.

A demerit system was implemented in which all offences—such as not being yielded to the Lord, not paying attention during the lengthy indoctrination classes, or talking—were noted. A child who received three or more demerits in a single day received a beating. On one occasion Seibel beat an 11-year-old boy in front of the other Victors. Two teens forcefully held the boy down as he screamed.

The camp ended abruptly when the Home was featured in a local newspaper article that identified its residents as cult members. Most of the Home's populace, including the Victors, was quickly evacuated in the early hours of the morning.

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