The surviving victim of a perverted cult that worshiped with mass orgies spoke about the horror of pedophilia and what life was like there.
The Sun writes about it.
Daniella Mestianek Young, 36, is doing her best to shed light on the horrors she faced in the "Children of God" sect and its sexually oriented leaders.
She was the daughter of one such high-ranking member of the sect, but managed to escape when she was 15 years old.
She now lives in Washington, but her grandfather still manages the sect's finances, which she says are in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
She said in an interview: "It became known as a sex cult."
Daniella Young / Photo: Instagram/@daniellamyoung_
Daniella is the author of the book "Uncultured" - a memoir in which she talked about her time in this terrible organization, where she was physically and sexually abused by members of the group.
The group was founded in 1968 as Teens for Christ, which former priest David Berg branded as an attraction for outcasts and hippies.
Around 15,000 people were believed to be part of this organization at its peak, with 130 colonies scattered around the world, but according to Daniella, she taught her followers that the outside world was evil.
She cited cases of corporal punishment programming and medical negligence.
She agreed with the testimony of a couple of British survivors in 2018 who called the place "hell on earth."
David Berg / Photo: mirror.co.uk
Daniella's mother, she said, was forced to marry a 39-year-old man when she was just 13, noting that it "was all about child labor and trafficking."
In 1974, the New York State Attorney's Office identified the organization as a cult, and the FBI and other US authorities investigated allegations of child abuse.
Daniella claims she was sexually abused at the age of five: "I went through a very bad sexual abuse and I thought if this is God's love, I don't want anything to do with it. They watched me being dragged by a pedophile.. . And I was gone for 10 hours. And no one asked any questions."
Daniella Young / Photo: Instagram/@daniellamyoung_
Her mother later helped her escape by helping her get to Texas with only her passport.
"I had to run away before I was 16 because at 16 you're expected to have sex with whoever asks you and not use birth control because of course the cult wants you to be pregnant." she said.
Daniella, who is now raising a daughter, spends most of her time teaching others about cult psychology and the dynamics of group behavior.
It will be recalled that earlier another member of the "Children of God" sect
was shocked when her three-year-old daughter was married off
to the 67-year-old leader of the cult.
She talked about her ceremony.