'For over a decade I’ve had an obsessive interest in alternative-living groups. 'Then I made a disturbing discovery – I had been a member of several myself. No surprise, perhaps, given the extremist precedent my family had set before me'
It was billed as a women’s-only self-help group; a means of adding some much-needed joy into participants’ lives. Yet tomorrow, as Keith Raniere, the alleged ringleader of NXIVM – a group found to have coerced 70 women into forced labour and sex, where members were “blackmailed, beaten and branded” – goes on trial, the disturbing truth about cults has again been forced into the spotlight.
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