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American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children: "Psychosocial Evaluation of Suspected Psychological Maltreatment in Children and Adolescents" - abstract
American Psychiatric Association: "Statement on Repressed Memories of Abuse"
Asser, Seth & Swan, Rita: "Child Fatalities from Religion-Motivated Medical Neglect" - abstract
Baker, Amy, Ph.D.: "The Cult of Parenthood: A Qualitative Study of Parental Alientation" - abstract
Bardin, Livia, M.S.W.: "Child Protection in an Authoritarian Community: culture Clash and Systemic Weakness"
Borgman, Dean: "Social Influences on Youth"
Boyle, Robin A.: "How Children in Cults May Use Emancipation Laws to Free Themselves"
Dhira, Govinda Das: "A Response to the Two Child Abuse Articles" - Hare Krishna
Grandparents' Rights - book review by Robin Boyle, Esq.
Halperin, David, M.D.: "Cults and Children: The Role of the Psychotherapist" - abstract
Help at Any Cost - Book Review by Steve K. D. Eichel, Ph.D.
Justice Denied, What America Must  Do to Protect Its Children - book review by Andrea Moore-Emmett
Kelley, Susan, Ph.D.: "Ritualistic Abuse of Children: Dynamics and Impact" - abstract
Kent, Stephen, Ph.D.: "Education and Reeducation in Ideological Organizations and their Implications for Children" - abstract
Kent, Stephen, Ph.D.: "Generational Revolt by the Adult Children of First-Generation members of the Children of God/The Family" - abstract
Landa_Susan: "Children and Cults: A Practical Guide"
Langone, Michael D., Ph.D.: "Outline: Child Literature"
Lloyd, David, Esq.: "Ritual Child Abuse: Understanding the Controversies" - abstract
Lutz, Alison & Borgman, Dean: "Teenage Spirituality and the Internet"
Muster, Nori: "Authoritarian Culture and Child Abuse in ISKCON" - abstract
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) - link
Nitty Gritty on Cults (ISKCON) - link
Rochford, Burke: "Child Abuse in the Hare Krishna Movement:1971-1986" - (full text 237k)
Rochford, Burke: "Further Reflections on Child Abuse within ISKCON" - Hare Krishna
Shrestha, Bharata das: "ISKCON’s Response to Child Abuse: 1990-98" - Hare Krishna
Stein, Alexandra: "Mothers in Cults: The Influence of Cults on the Relationship of Mothers to Their Children" - abstract
The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog and Other Stories - Book Review by Doni Whitset, Ph.D., LCSW
Whitsett, Doni & Kent, Stephen: "Cults and Families" - abstract
Whitsett, Doni, Ph.D.: "The Psychobiology of Trauma and Child Maltreatment"

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10 years for polygamist sect member in sex assault

100-plus Alamo children missing

12 Jurors, 2 Parents, 1 Dead Child

13,000 abuse claims in juvie centers

2 men sue Mormons, Scouts over abuse

2009s Miss Indonesia Admits to Being Raised in 'Sex Cult'

9 ex-Alamo group members to testify

A Comment on "Cult Conversion, Deprogramming and the Triune Brain"

A Response to the Two Child Abuse Articles

A troubling order for the Catholic Church

About 200,000 children and young people live in sects

Abuse of child 'witches' on rise, aid group says

Abusers were 'dregs of society'

Accusations of Sex Abuse Trail Doctor

Adoptee Allegedly "Brainwashed"

African children at risk of ritual abuse

Alamo could use a prison consultant

Alamo Cult Child Returned

Alamo defender asking to withdraw

Alamo defense asks for mercy, cites evangelist’s ‘good works’

Alamo loses phone usage

Alamo seeks removal of religious language in suit

Alamo tells girl from jail: `I'm still in charge'

Alamo, 75, gets 175 years

Alamo-Member Parents Denied Again

All God's children? Another tragedy

Allen Harrod/Child Abuse: Case Suspended for Psychiatric Exam

Allen Harrod/Child Abuse: Harrod Followers Arrested

Amid a holy war

Angola police say release 29 children from sect

Anne Hamilton-Byrne/The Family: Ex-Follower Ties Drug Use to Membership

Anti-child-abuse bikers roll into Hildale, Colorado City

Apostates fear a resurgence of FLDS tyranny

Archbishop assails Irish orders over child abuse

Are we all capable of violence?

Ariel Ben Sherman: Abuse Charges Dropped

Arizona sheriff accused of misconduct

Armageddon in Waco

Arrest of allegedly abusive mother sparks protests

Arrests for Child Abuse Spotlight the Finders

Article on Cultic Child Abuse

Attachment Therapy: Parents Say Controversial therapy Helped

Attacks on Peripheral versus Central Elements of Self and the Impact of Thought Reforming Techniques

Attleboro (The Body): Woman Said to be Cutting Ties to Group

Attorney questions witnesses' expertise on FLDS religion

Attorneys: CPS overruled efforts to end rights for some FLDS parents

Authoritarian Culture and Child Abuse in ISKCON

Authorities say speculations on church investigation ‘hitting the nail on the head’

Ava clearly showed grave illness, pediatrician testifies

B.C. polygamist leader decries child sex abuse

B.C. seized three ailing sextuplets

Battle over legal costs could derail B.C. polygamy case

Behind the Yearning for Zion Gates

Bibliography on Forensic and Custody Issues

Big Brother contestant writes book about cult

Bishops were warned of abusive priests

Blaming gay men for abuse gets us nowhere

Book Review: Lost boy's story of abuse moves from suit to book

Book Review: SIFF: Children of the Revolution: Two New Docs Wrestle With the Old Hippie Idealism

Book Review: Suggestibility of Children's Recollection

Book Review: The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog and Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s

Born or Raised in High-Demand Groups: Developmental Considerations

Bountiful Blight

Bountiful: home of B.C.’s secret sect

Boy chosen by Dalai Lama turns back on Buddhist order

Brainwashing and Re-Indoctrination Programs in the Children of God/The Family

Brazil Supreme Court: Extradite head of child abusing sect

Brethren children 'abused'

Brethren children 'abused'

Care conflict over BC sextuplets sparks bloody row

Cascade Center for Growth: Death by Water Punishment

Chance discovery of abused child reveals bizarre Czech grail cult

Chance discovery of abused child reveals bizarre Czech grail cult

Child Abuse

Child Abuse and Medical Treatment

Child Abuse in the Hare Krishna Movement:1971-1986

Child Abuse, Cults and the Law

Child Abuse: “Alumni” of Canadian Reform Schools Sue

Child Abuse: Child Advocacy Award

Child Abuse: Children Kept in Cells at Islamic School

Child Abuse: Claims Freedom of Religion Allows Marriage to Children

Child Abuse: Guilty Pleas in Neglect Case

Child Abuse: Pastor Faces 30 Years for "Holy Spankings",

Child Abuse: Religious Justification

Child bride offers to settle suit against polygamous church's land trust

Child Custody and Cults

Child Custody Breakthrough with Yahweh Group

CHILD Documents Abuse and Neglect

Child Killer's Penalty to Be Reviewed

Child Protection in an Authoritarian Community: Culture Clash and Systemic Weakness

Child Sexual Abuse in Cults: Can It Be Prevented?

Child’s death renews scrutiny of Remnant Fellowship Church

Child-Abuse Petition in Vermont

Child-bride case fizzles

Child-Custody Deal Favors Escapee of Notorious Cult 'The Family'

Childhood Verbal, Physical, Sexual Victimization, Symptomatology and Family Environments within Coercive Groups and Resultant Treatment Outcomes

Children and Cults

Children and Cults: A Practical Guide

Children and Cults: The Nightmare of Cult Life

Children Barbarized

Children Beaten "Lovingly"

CHILDREN IN CULTS

Children of God (The Family): Child Abuse Linked to Suicides

Children of God/The Family: Second Generation Follower Tells of Abuse

Children of God: Children, Now Grown, Tell of Raid Experience

Children of polygamous sect to be reunited with parents

Children Removed from Alamos

Children: House of Prayer Members, Pastor Indicted in Abuse Case

Christian cult stole our kids, say parents

Church of God (Aylmer): Spanking Probe Widens in Canada

Church of God (Aylmer): The Ideology of Child Spanking

Church of God/Aylmer: Seizure of Children Ruled Constitutional

Church of Scientology facing dissolution in France as members go on trial accused of organised fraud

Church's critics say verdict is a lesson

City Drops "Brain Education" School Program Run By Yoga Cult

Claims of brainwashing, child abuse and a cult-like sex ring to be aired in court

Co-accused in 'cult' abduction pleads guilty

Cobb cop testifies parents feared son, 8

Comment: Scientology cult targets Ghanaian children

Commentary on Borawick v Shay--Hypnosis, Social Influence, Incestuous Child Abuse and Satanic Ritual Abuse

Commentary: No ‘Big Love’ for polygamy laws

Community of Jesus leader implicated in 1990s abuse probe

Conference 2006: Handbook (Denver)

Confidentiality sought in Alamo suit

Convicted child sex abuser Tony Alamo will be sentenced next month

Convicted pastor says he's 'one of the prophets'

Couple charged in son's beating death won't take stand

Couple get life terms for killing their son

Court lets sect kids see dad, but not TV

Court Sets Standards for Consideration of Religious Beliefs in Custody Cases

COURT WATCH: Neglect Conviction Upheld

Courts: 1-Year Term in Fatal Spanking

Courts: 1-Year Term in Fatal Spanking

Courts: Court Limits Ashram Visits

Courts: Father Gets Children in Church Child Abuse Case

Crisis of Faith

Cult Formation

Cult Leader Charged With Child Abuse

Cult leader faces child sex charges

Cult program in NYC schools

Cultism and Child Abuse: Cases of Convergence

Cultism and the Law: Litigating the Cult-Related Child Custody Case

Cults and Children: The Abuse of the Young

Cults and Children: The Abuse of the Young

Cults and Children: The Abuse of the Young* - Part II

Cults and Children: The Role of the Psychotherapist

Cults, Coercion, and Contumely

Cults, Evangelicals, and the Ethics of Social Influence

Cults, Psychological Manipulation, and Society: International Perspectives - An Overview

Curtain rises on W. Texas polygamist sex trial today

Custody case gives startling look inside controversial church

CUSTODY Children return with dad after five years in France

Custody hearing update: Judge retires to chamber to decide custody case

Custody of newborn halts testimony / Late deal by CPS keeps sect girls off witness stand over their alleged abuseCustody of newborn halts testimony

Custody Suit Review Requested

Custody to Ecclesia Leader

Custody to Father

Custody to Non-Witness Spouse

Dad reaches out to sect child

Davis, Henry/Child Abuse: Leader Pleads Guilty to Leading Teen Sex Ring

Death Opens Doors on Group

Death sparks debate on Jehovah's Witness transfusion ban

Denver Archbishop Chaput investigating vast sex-and-money Church scandal

Deprogramming: A Case Study Part I

Deprogramming: A Case Study Part II

DFPS Provides Senate Committee With Eldorado Update

Diocese investigates abuse claims

Doctor raises doubts about marks on boy

Doctors part of God's will, too

Dr. Evil

Dutroux, Marc/ Child Abuse: He Allegedly Brainwashed Children

Education and Reeducation in Ideological Organizations and Their Implications for Children

Elder gets two years probation for molesting 12-year-old girl

Elior Chen interrogated in J'lem

Elizabeth Smart kidnapper shares LeBaron traits, expert says

Ex-follower of Alamos looks back

Expert paid $500,000 for report on Elizabeth Smart kidnapper

Extremist Tide Rises in Pakistan

Faith Healing and Child Abuse

Faith healing or inhuman sacrifice?

Faith in God Christian Deliverance Church: Raid to Investigate Child Abuse

Faith Tabernacle Congregation: Child’s Death Allegedly Due to Faith Healing Belief

Faith Walk or Death March?

Families' suit charges state with child abuse

Family (COG) Second Generation Needs Healing

Family Leaders Plead Guilty; Children Tell of Cult Life

Father cannot introduce new evidence in Bethany Hughes case, court rules

Father Gets Custody from "Cult"

Father loses access to his Brethren children

Father Wins Custody from Commune

Fathers Seek Custody of Children in Bruderhof

Fears of child abuse as pope urges priests to love the young

Federal Review Looms in Boot Camp Death

FLDS adults not suspected of abusing boys

FLDS appeals trust rulings to Utah Supreme Court

FLDS exile to offer tour of polygamist communities

FLDS exile to offer tour of polygamist communities

FLDS lawyers accuse Rangers of misleading judge

FLDS leader Jeffs starving himself, jail authorities say

FLDS man to be sentenced for sexual assault

FLDS ranch leader to give deposition in child custody case

FLDS trust settlement talks begin Wednesday

FLDS trust's fiduciary files complaint against former child bride's family

FLDS: Jeffs awaits Arizona trial

FLDS: Keate guilty of child sex assault

FLDS: Polygamous sect defendants have no right to challenge search, Texas A.G. says

FLDS: Texas judge orders psych exam for polygamous sect teen mom

Followers offer a peek into Alamo compound

Force-feeding ends as jailed polygamous leader Jeffs resumes eating

Former FLDS member to describe polygamy, abuse

Former MLA to defend Bountiful polygamy accused in court.

Former pastor charged with child rape

Former Sect Member Reunited with Daughter

Former Vatican No. 2 Becomes Unlikely Cheerleader

Foster Mother Charged in Boy's Death

Four Winds/Lucille Poulin: Nun Accused of Leading Destructive Cult

Four Winds: Commune Leader Convicted of Assault

France declares war on Sect influence in the United Nations

France: Raid on "Horus" Sect

French woman convicted of abducting children from Canada freed

FROM THE COURTS: California Ritualistic Child Abuse Law

FROM THE COURTS: Faith Healer Sentenced, Grandparents' Visitation Law

Full publication of clerical child sex abuse report may take years

Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints/Child Abuse: Eviction for Opposing Underage Marriage

Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints/Child Abuse: Underground Railway for Child Brides

Fundraiser for father

Further Reflections on Child Abuse within ISKCON

General Assembly and Church of the Firstborn: Parents Charged in Faith Healing Death

Girl 'married' at 8 says sex started in 3rd grade

Global: Canada - Children Returned to Cultic Group After Raid to Arrest Alleged Abusers

GLOBAL: Philippines - Child Abuse in Group

God’s Creation Outreach Ministry: Child Abuse Charges

God’s Creation Outreach Ministry: Mother Pleads Guilty in Death of Son

God’s Creation Outreach Ministry: Women Guilty of Child Abuse

Government says no need for new Alamo trial

Government to Protect Children

Grandparents’ Rights

Growing up J.W.

Hare Krishna Boarding Schools Sued in Child-Abuse Case

Hare Krishnas Confront Child Abuse

Help for children being abandoned in Colorado City

Helping others avoid cultists

Hilary Clinton Favors Court Actions in Faith Healing Case

Historic case: Law should protect women and children from abuse

House of Prayer: Child Abuse Charges Dropped against Some

House of Prayer: Children Returned to Parents

House of Prayer: Group Sues State for Custodial Child Abuse

House of Prayer: Leader Arrested

House of Prayer: Pastor and Members Sentenced for Whipping

How Can Young People Protect Themselves Against Cults?

How Children In Cults May Use Emancipation Laws

Hundreds of Irish Catholic priests 'to be implicated in child abuse report'

I was her guardian'

In favour of faith

In his own words: Winston Blackmore

In the Community: One Child Dead, Others Removed from "Cult-like" Ecclesia; Abuse and Manslaughter Charged

In the Courts: Brainwashing without Physical Bonds, Scientology, 7th Day Adventist Death

IN THE COURTS: Charismatic Church Pastor Accused of Sexual Assault, C-O 11-9 & 10 1994

IN THE COURTS: Children's Testimony of Satanic Abuse "Derailing" Molestation Cases

In the Courts: Conversion Not Impediment to Custody

In the Courts: Couple Accused in Child's Death May Have Belonged to Shoresh Yishai Cult

In the Courts: Custody Ruling Upheld

IN THE COURTS: CUT Member Loses Custody of Children

IN THE COURTS: Fathers Get Custody in Alamo Commune Case

IN THE COURTS: Grandparents' Visitation Law

In the Courts: Pediatricians Urge Exemption Repeal

IN THE COURTS: Ritualistic Child Abuse

Inside Chile's Colony of Terror

Interesting Times

Interfaith Coalition Concerned About Cults’ Abuse of Women, Children

Interference threatens landmark custody arrangement

INTERNATIONAL: Germany-Seminar in the East

INTERNATIONAL: Scotland-Abuse at School in Scotland

Ireland braces itself for another report on clerical child abuse

Ireland's Christian Brothers in U-turn on compensation

Irish Court May Censor Next Catholic Abuse Report

ISKCON’s Response to Child Abuse: 1990-98

Israel issues international warrant against sect leader suspected of child abuse

Its 'Mother' dead, doomsday sect's future in doubt

Jeffs' appeal hearing moved back to Salt Lake City

Jeffs' appeal hearing moved back to Salt Lake City

Jeffs loses bid to re-interview officials about raid

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Court Refuses to Allow Teen to Determine Medical Treatment; Father Alleges “Brianwashing” by Church Group

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Enticing Children with Candy Alleged

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Not Found Liable in Child Abuse Case

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Sentencing Postponed in Infant Murder

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Story of “Shunning”

Jehovah's witnesses face increased risk of death during childbirth

John Kolbek

Judge delays start of evangelist Alamo's trial

Judge grants transfusion for baby

Judge Orders $500K for Each of Preacher's Victims

Judge upholds taking of Alamo church kids

Judge: Pastor convicted of child abuse shouldn't get new trial [House of Prayer]

Judge: Sever Alamo ties to regain children

Jurors weigh case against parents accused of beating their 8-year-old son to death

Jury begins deliberations in parents' murder trial

Kabalarian Society: Girl’s Diary Can Be Used in Abuse Case

Keep suit, custody actions separate, state asks

Kidnap-charge pastor up for extradition

Killer, son of sect's leader, blamed cult for childhood abuse

Kitsap Co. pastor pleads guilty to child rape

Kitsap pastor pleads guilty to raping girls in congregation

Krishna Children Found Dead in Refrigerator – Activist Comments

Ku Klux Klan calling cards dropped off at Davie restaurant

Kyirebentua Faith Church: Children of Faith Healers Inoculated

Last child in TX raid freed from foster care

Latter-day Church of God/The Order: Alleged Child Abuse in Polygamous Clan Detailed

Law enforcement recordings in Jeffs case to be kept secret

Law Student Advocates Religious Defense

Lawmaker not fazed by FLDS ire

Leaked video of Alamo ministry child on Internet

Lee Ann Kinkade: Growing up in a commune

Legionaries' future in the balance

Limits Exposure of Child to Way

Litigating Child Custody with Religious Cults

Litigating the Cult-Related Child Custody Case

Litigating the Cult-Related Child Custody Case

'Little Pebble' faces teen sex assault charges

Live from the FLDS hearing in Austin

Lord Krishna is still all-time favourite on TV, movies

Low Priority for Child Welfare

Lucille Poulin: Alberta “Failed” The Children in Poulin’s Group in 1995

Maine bishop calls attention to clergy abuse

Maine woman avoids prison in killing of white supremacist husband after years of abuse

Man sues sect leader, alleging child abuse

Measure would assist 'Lost Boys'

Meeting a "Monster"

Member of Alamo church faces sentencing

Mennonite abuse survivor speaks out against church

Mexico tightens jail terms for child abuse

Michigan Court Rules Against Grandparents

Mind Control and the Battering of Women

Minister's marriage to 10-year-old Que. girl hidden from mother, court hears

Miss Indonesia's links to religious cult

Missed chances of ending 20 years of cruelty

Missouri church leaders charged with child sex abuse leave state

Mom allowed to communicate with kids

More the merrier for Christian movement

Most Catholics loyal despite sex abuse scandal

Mothers in Cults: The Influence of Cults on the Relationship of Mothers to Their Children

Mothers Seek Children

MOVE: Man in Custody Battle Murdered

MOVE: MOVE Members Fortify House

Mrs. Alamo Loses Custody Bid

Murder and Suicide Reviving Claims of Child Abuse in Cult

My mom drives out demons

Nazi who led cult like a god is jailed for child sex abuse

Nearly seven years prison for child abuser guru Oliver Shanti

New lawyer signals new strategy in Alamo case

New Life Tabernacle: Ariel Ben Sherman Accused of Child Abuse

New site eyed for building in Colorado City

New Studies in Cult Membership: Child Abuse

New York State Committee Hears Child Abuse Testimony

No easy solutions in polygamous church land fight

No Evidence of Satanic Child Abuse

North Carolina Enforces Spanking Ban

North Idaho polygamist sect drawing new scrutiny

Not Without My Sister: The True Story of Three Girls Violated and Betrayed by Those They Trusted

Nuwaubian leader jailed, but the sect carries on

Nuwaubian leader jailed, but the sect carries on

Nuwaubians: Leader Sued for Alleged Child Abuse

Nuwaubians: Nuwaubian Leader Held on Child Sexual Abuse Charges

NYC Child Killer Must Pay $15M to Mother

OKC Bombing & Waco Anniversaries Sunday

On Resisting Social Influence

On the Outside Looking In: Growing Up in the Moonies

One Woman's Account of Abuse Leads to Rape Charges for SK Pastor

Order of St. Charbel: “Pope”-To-Be Charged with Sex Offenses

Order of St. Charbel: “Pope”-To-Be Charged with Sex Offenses

Orthodox end silence on sex abuse

Our Gifted Teens and the Cults

Overcoming the Bondage of Revictimization: response to Passantino

Owens signs faith-healing bill

Papers detail sect's plans

Papers detail sect's plans

Pare Alamo Ties to Get Kids Back, Parents Told

Parental rights cut for some followers

Parents charged in child’s death go on trial Monday

Parents guilty in child murder case that prompted Brentwood church raid

Pastor accused of child rape ruled with an iron hand

Pastor guilty of child abuse

Patience Pays Off for Boy Fleeing The WAY

Personality, Belief in the Paranormal, and Involvement with Satanic Practices Among Young Adult Males

Persuasive Techniques in Contemporary Cults

Photos show birthing center at sect's Texas ranch

Police fear for children abused by religious sects

Politicians unite against forced teenage weddings

Polygamist church's late payment rejected in Utah

Polygamist predicts opponents will be 'damned'

Polygamist Sect Leader Convicted of Sexual Assault

Polygamist seeks taxpayer $$ for defense

Polygamy harms the women and children involved, say opponents

Polygamy/Child Abuse: Bill to Criminalize Bigamy

Polygamy/Child Abuse: Issue for Hmong Refugees

Polygamy: Conviction for Child Rape

Polygamy: Custody Fight Raises Cult Issues

Polygamy: Green Admits Guilt

Pope attacks gays to deflect child abuse accusations

Pope faked child abuse investigation

Pope must act now to stop Legionaries of Christ 'train wreck' going off the cliff

Portos: Commune Leaders Sentenced on Firearms and Whipping charges

Prayer mom falls ill at trial

Preacher in court over child kidnapping charges

Preacher’s parental advice raises abuse questions

Professional Profile: Dr. Paul Martin

Prophet Without Honor

Prosecutor blasts expert who claimed 8-year-old boy died from infection

Prosecutor, defense lawyer give different versions of child's death

Protesters offer different opinions on FLDS trial

Psychosocial Evaluation of Suspected Psychological Maltreatment in Children and Adolescents

Queen Shahmia: Husband Wants Custody

Questions and Answers about Memories of Childhood Abuse

Rainbow Tribe Linked with Child Abuse

Rajneesh/Osho/Orange People: Accused of Luring Children

Reactions to Child Abuse Expose

Reflections on Child Custody and Cults

Reflections on Marriage and Children After the Cult

Reforming Krishnas Admit Past Child Abuse

Religion Joins Custody Cases, to Judges’ Unease

Religions Rooted In Delusions

Religious Pluralism, Dialogue, and the Ethics of Social Influence

Report on House Education and Labor Committee Hearing on Private Therapeutic Residential Facilities for Adolescents and Children

Repressed Memory Murder Case Dropped

Repressed memory: Issue still argued

Resolution on Missionaries and Deprogramming

Restraint Therapy: Bills Introduced

Ritual Child Abuse: Understanding the Controversies

Ritualistic Abuse of Children--Dynamics and Impact

Saakashvili Weighs in on Jehovah’s Witness Baby Treatment Case

Sadistic foster mother’s 19-year reign of terror

Safety Net gets new roadmap for helping youth

Sai Baba visit puts Chavan on the mat

Salva Me Pater Omnis Oculos Meus: Judge Returns Children to Parents

Salva Me: Children Returned with Warning, Conditions

Satanist pimped out daughter

Scientology in the News

Searching for Missing Children

Second trial begins for polygamist charged with sexual assault of a child

Secretive Catholic Order Founded by Accused Pedophile Under Fire

Secretive worldwide sect battles Vermonter in court

Secrets of Pedophilia in the Jehovah’s Witnesses

Sect leader indicted for child abuse

Sect's small schools given $2m in federal grants

Sects’ Immunity from Child-Abuse Laws Eroding?

Seeks Custody of Son from U.C.

SK Pastor in Custody; Five Make Sex Abuse Allegations

Skyline Journey: Homicide Charges in Therapy Camp Death

Sleep Deprivation

Social Influence: Ethical Considerations

Some Sacramento-area faithful turn backs on pastors, 'spiritual abuse'

Spanking Approved

SPLC’s Intelligence Report: Tony Alamo Faces New Underage Sex Charges

Stairway to Heaven

State Custody in Child Abuse

State Department Establishes Bureau on Children Abducted and Taken Abroad

Stonegate Child Abuse Tests Resume

Study Reveals Impact Of Commune Life On Children

Talk of 'celestial wives,' long-term effects of assault

Teen defends evangelist Alamo in leaked Web video

Teen loses fight to refuse blood transfusions

Teen testifies she heard father hit son

Temple man quits over beating scandal

Texas AG: Polygamist sect man skirted bank laws

Texas Reports Added Signs of Abuse at Sect’s Ranch

Texas seeks volunteer lawyers to handle FLDS kids' cases

The 12 Tribes at a glance

The Appeal of the Impossible and the Efflorescence of the Unbelievable: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Cults and Occultism

The Body (Attleboro Sect): Expert Says Karen Robidoux Was “Mind Controlled”

The Body (Attleboro Sect): Karen Robidoux Murder Trial Cancelled — “Brainwashing” Claimed

The Body (Attleboro Sect): Mother to Use “Battered Woman’s Defense” in Child’s Death

The Body (Attleboro): Corneau Child Welfare Case Dismissed

The Body/Attleboro: Children Aid Investigation

The Body/Attleboro: No Charge Against Couple for "Lost Baby"

The Body/Attleboro: Vision That Led to Death Allegedly Arose from Jealousy

The Cult That Wants My Kids

The Family (Winifred Wright): “Brainwashing” Alleged

The Family: Guilty of Child Endangerment

The High Price of Religious Defection

The Historical Dimension of Cultic Techniques of Persuasion and Control

The Island Pond Raid: 25 Years Later, Part 1

The knock at the door that turned my parents into brainwashed fanatics - and nearly cost my life

The madness of MOVE continues

The Meaning of Music in a German Sect in Chile: Colonia Dignidad

The Psychobiology of Trauma and Child Maltreatment

The Psychological Consequences Of Being Raised In And Leaving High Demand Groups: The Case Of The Exclusive Brethren

The Relation of Group Philosophy to Different Types of Dangerous Conduct in Cultic Groups

The Rescue of Children from the FLDS Compound in Texas: Why the Arguments Claiming Due Process Violations

The son who survived Jonestown

The truth rundown

The United States Senate Judiciary Committee Holds Hearings on Polygamy Crimes

The Word of Faith Fellowship: Mother Says Children’s Custody Given Under “Great Duress”

Thin Line Between Religions and Cults

Thousands of children missing in Uganda

Tokyo stations commemorate 14th anniversary of AUM sarin attack

Tooky Amirault walks free after 18 years

Transcript of interview with girl, 17, from Alamo compound

Trial date set in case of alleged teen bride

Trial delayed for Swinton

Trial of accused cult members delayed again

Two members in Alamo case released from jail

Two more accused of child sex abuse at religious home

Two More Victims Come Forward as SK Pastor Appears on Sex Charges

Two Years After Raid, Polygamist Sect Leaders Are 'Nervous'

U.S. FAILS TO PRESS CHILE ON BORIS WEISFEILER CASE

U.S. Supreme Court urged to deny polygamist's appeal

Undue Influence and Written Documents: Psychological Aspects

Unwitting high-schoolers lured to forum run by Scientologists

Update on Cults in Britain: Custody Law Applied to Krishnas

Utah attorney general responds to polygamist's U.S. Supreme Court appeal

VALLEY CENTER: Followers find fulfillment without possessions at Twelve Tribes

VALLEY CENTER: Twelve Tribes Christian community lives as an example of its faith

Vatican Faces Widening Sex Abuse Scandals

Verbal fireworks erupt in child death case

Vivre son enfance au sein d’une secte religieuse – Comprendre pour mieux intervenir

Warning About Cultism to Health Professionals, Institutions

Warrants Served on Polygamous Towns in Utah, Ariz.

Warren Jeffs

Warren Jeffs' Former Home May House 'Lost Boys'

Warren Jeffs still in jail awaiting trial as turmoil continues

Was Nancy Garrido a victim or accomplice?

West Texas polygamist sect members search for normalcy on, off compound

Whatever happened to ... ‘Community’ members move on

Where sect takes precedence over everything else

White supremacist set to be executed for 1994 murder

Will followers still obey evangelist from prison?

Willard man charged with bigamy, rape

Winifred Wright/Child Abuse: Judge Allows Bail for “Deprogramming” Time

Winifred Wright/Child Abuse: Prison Term for Starvation Death

Wis. dad of dead girl says he trusted God to heal

Witch child abuse spreads in Britain

Witchcraft/Exorcism: Suspected Child Abuse

Witness for the family

Witness: Accused cult leaders had her committed to keep quiet

Witness: Alamo described sex abuse

Witness: Boy in beating death case was covered with bruises

Witnesses talk of Mitchell's religion, past during competency hearing

Wives galore

Woman incorrectly IDs pastor at sex-crimes trial

Woman 'married' to pastor at age 8 to retake stand

Woman pleads guilty to murder in drowning, beheading of daughter in Washington

Woman who escaped from polygamist cult spoke of her ordeal

Word of Faith Fellowship: Abuse Detailed

Word of Faith Fellowship: Concerns about Day Care Children

Word of Faith Fellowship: Members Give Up Custody

Word of Faith Fellowship: Mother Gets Visits with A No-Deprogramming Stipulation

Year after Alamo raid, questions remain

Yearning for Truth: Oprah's Visit to the FLDS Compound

York's sect at it again

Youth for Western Civilization group at Vanderbilt stirs furor

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