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Children of The Finders cult, what was it like? (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just finished listening to the latest Behind the Bastards episodes, and was quite surprised to find this was one of the least bastardly subjects in the history of the podcast. In it, Robert Evans mentioned that none of the children have come forward with allegations of sexual abuse (or with any allegations at all).

So, how was it living with Marion Pettie and his utopian experiment?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Reading the background, it was part of the whole satanic panic thing. They were weird, like sacrificing goats and stuff, but most rural kids see animal slaughter at a young age and it's not an issue, and the kids were mostly removed anyway.