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Anonymous said…
Hi Jeremy ! merry Christmas !!.My question is if someone who was born into a religious cult had suffered lenghtly emotional and psychological abuse and even sexual abuse which had been hidden with the right qualified counciling services not being provided .And this cults practices had severly effected the persons ability to get a decent education etc and infact had almost a total detrimental effect on the outcome of many aspects of this persons whole life .

Would it be possible that there is a case to answer ?? .And if so would it only be over the sexual abuse ? .
Seriousfraud said…
If the person had been detained against their will there might be a case of kidnapping or even slavery.There would certainly be a case if any of the sexual abuse constituted a crime under the Crimes Act.Other than criminal matters there may have been torts or civil wrongs committed against that person such as trespass to the person or false imprisonment.It would depend very much on the nature of the abuse towards the person
Anonymous said…
Jeremy thanks for the reply and most of all thanks for the kindness of giving advice .

Being born into one of these cults , im not sure that being held against ones will could be claimed before the legal age that one can make the choice to leave .But for many it most certainly was/is not out of choice , it arises from situation of birth . Excommunication from family and emotional and psychological abuse is a very common outcome both before and after leaving this cult effecting many often throughout their whole life .

For interest sake i will post a link of a forum of a group effected should you wish to look further into it . http://peebs.net/ http://peebs.net/forum/

Once again thanks so much for your time and for this blog !!

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