27 - Children of God/The Family Part Two: ( Heeeelp. The End.)

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Let's Get Dark

Religion & Spirituality, Unsolved Mystery, Conspiracies, Spirituality, Creepy, Cover-up, Comedy, True Crime, Murder, Cold Case, Mystery, Government Projects, Disappearances, Crime, Paranormal

4.6 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2018

⏱️ 86 minutes

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In our conclusion of our coverage of the Children of God/The Family/The Family International/whatever name they use to rebrand their horrible cult this year, we discuss the tenets of the cult as it evolved, the last years of leader David Berg's life, his wife Karen Zerby's rise to prophet after his death, and some of the extremely disturbing abuse that was commonplace within the cult. We will also talk about Zerby's son, Ricky Rodriguez, or Davidito, as he was known within the cult, who was...

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0:00.0	I practice what I preach, and I preach sex boys and girls. Hallelujah! When I say, fuck, you know what I'm talking about, don't you? Every one of you know! So maybe some of the children. And our kids are so smart, they even know what that. We don't think there's anything evil about. We don't think there's anything about. I'm The Creep it real is a weekly podcast where we present our theories of the subjects we cover based on our interest and research.
0:53.8	Some material may be graphic and
0:55.5	disturbing, so proceed with caution.
0:58.0	Hey guys, it's Ashley. I know we have our usual warning of disturbing content, but today's
1:02.8	episode details child abuse and further sexual abuse that if you have any sort of history with this or these are our triggers for you,
1:14.5	we wanted to give you another warning. So this is it. Proceed with caution. Okay. Here we go. I'm just
1:24.3	like deep breath preparing for this.
1:28.8	Like I think I almost feel like today is worse because it's like more about the kids that were more so.
1:37.5	Yeah.
1:37.8	The kids that were raised in the cult and it's like, oh my gosh, they had no choice whatsoever.
1:43.2	Okay.
1:44.1	Hey, everybody. Hey. It's Ashley. And my gosh, they had no choice whatsoever. Okay. Hey, hey everybody.
1:45.4	Hey, it's Ashley.
1:47.2	And shy.
1:47.9	We're here.
1:48.4	It's creeper real.
1:49.5	We are coming at the close of Children of God, the second part of our coverage, the last part of our coverage.
1:57.9	Thank goodness.
1:59.0	I don't think I could handle handle much more of it, honestly.
2:02.7	Yeah. It's kind of, I mean, geez, I feel traumatized from reading about it. So let's think about
2:11.2	those poor children that were in the cult by no means of their own. Okay. So let's just get into it because I'm just
2:19.2	like, let's get this over. I'm trying to prepare myself to try to resist from just bawling my
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