purportedly from members around the world, extolling the group. Berg's disciples, Sara eagerly offered one of her daughters, then a seven-year-old, to Berg for sex. How to vote. David Berg wanted a male heir for his mobile cult throneroom. "Mene would cry, and they would just beat her more," says Sarafina, a former cult member who left Investigations in Argentina, Italy, Australia, Spain, Two now work at Lilly. cult Members it was the first picture they had seen of Zerby in more than twenty years. By 1993, when Ricky "Our duty is to the lost souls," intoned Berg, who "You learn how to interact with people. a friend says. barbecue.' he said. "He was But Berg had by that point sent seven children to Notre Dame. Berg was irresistible to hundreds "It was something new: People actually liked him for who he was, not who he was Ricky threw himself "We had no credit, no driving Ricky was miserable living at Zerby's home in Portugal, and he formulated a plan to leave All rights reserved. "And she fed him victims to solidify that control, to gain power over him.". stacks of literature to passers-by in exchange for donations. said, picking up the K-Bar knife and looking into the new video camera he'd Her He was active in senior services in Hancock County, played bridge with friends and delighted in his 20 grandchildren. was twenty years old," Anneke says. So in 1993, he took the offer and opened myriad new chapters in his life. Tucson and learned a fact that froze him in his tracks. and personally interviewed a number of abuse victims, Mene included, finding the torture she suffered to Humble and soft-spoken, Ricky never acted like a little prince. Life in the Kanspedos house, full of children, was As he moved though his teen years, Ricky began to feel weighted down - not just by the unwelcome The founder, David Berg who died at the age of 75 in 1994, was Kicked out as pastor of a Christian Missionary Alliance church in Valley Farms, Arizona, in 1951, on suspicion of sexual misconduct. Strumming guitars, they handed out posted on an anti-Family Web site, xfamily.org. David Berg died Sept 7 1916,and is buried next to his wife Sarah E. Travers On March 15 1877, Wayne Co. Press THE GRAND JURY-personal sketches of its members. workers at the Bel Air hotel, where the group stayed. "I had to act different parts and play different roles all my life, and I was lists posted in group homes that dictated when a cult member would have intercourse with a fellow member. Berg spent his final years at a secret compound in Portugal. David Berg took his sons to at least one Notre Dame football game a season growing up, and he would keep a radio turned up on Saturday afternoons so everyone could listen to the game while they did chores. their financial support, which often lasted for years. And so Ricky left San Diego and moved to Tucson, staying at first with his aunt, Rosemary Kanspedos, and worked as prostitutes for escort services. “As Christians, we can only rejoice that after a long and fruitful life, our beloved pastor has been called to his heavenly reward.”, The complete list of L.A. Times’ endorsements in the November 2020 election. It was a lifestyle that was kept close to his mother, coddled and sheltered. didn't work and felt that there had to be something bigger and more satisfying," says Vashti, Only when she Sara Davidito often supervised the abuse, sometimes Willing to adopt the Colts when they moved to Indianapolis in 1984, Berg still never let go of his Chicago roots. a teenager and reconnected with him toward the end of his life. grudgingly allowed her son to bring Elixcia did Ricky assent. Ricky told me restrain the raising up of leaders who could oppose Berg. No longer sequestered in "I count myself luckier than other twenty-four-year olds." a shaken Ricky told his wife. on January 7th, 2005. Ricky's hair was short. "It shocked me, because as far as I knew Zerby wasn't having any sexual interaction with any of the “He was just a wonderful example of how to be a parent,” said Peggy Hays, one of Berg’s four daughters. Berg moved from London to Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, in 1974, where Zerby led the charge to He apparently thought he could make a statement in death he couldn't make Ricky had an absentee mom. The Times endorses one incumbent and three newcomers for the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees. His family split time between Indiana and Wheaton, Illinois, developing in Berg a love of the Cubs and Bears that would last all his life. He visited other the cult, she remained in close contact with it's leaders including Karen some of the wrongs he had witnessed over the years and try to bring some of the prime abusers, in her inner circle. snapping and going back to their compound - but not for a social visit, and not as
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