Season 4, Episode 14: The Family (Throwback Episode)

It's a Throwback Wednesday! Let's revisit "The Family" from Season 3! 

One of the few cults led by a female was known as “The Family” founded by Anne Hamilton-Byrne in 1963 in Melbourne, Australia. "The Family" combined Christian, Hindu, and New Age ideas with the use of psychedelic drugs and the belief that doomsday was near. Anne and her followers raised children they felt would be leaders in the next world. She acquired 28 children, about half of them stolen from psychiatric hospitals and raised them in such a spine tingling way. Was justice served? Where are these children today? Stay tuned...

Sources: 
https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/famous-female-cult-leaders-the-family-anne-hamilton-byrne-sheela-uriel-012426184.html
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343363185_Anne_Hamilton-Byrne_and_the_Family/link/5f2f4b56a6fdcccc43b869fe/download
https://www.mamamia.com.au/the-family-cult-anne-hamilton-byrne/
https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/news/death-of-sick-victorian-cult-leader-does-not-end-suffering-for-victims/news-story/a7e5df99f30b05414acec766293439aa
https://steemit.com/wikileaks/@steemtruth/deconstructing-julian-assange-and-wikileaks-his-childhood-in-a-cult
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/20/growing-up-with-the-family-inside-anne-hamilton-byrnes-sinister-cult

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