The Family International Blamed For Boy's Suicide

In January 2005, Ricky Rodriguez stabbed a woman to death and then fled the scene of the crime, finally shooting himself in the California desert.

According to the report published in CNN the suicide of a young man Ricky Rodriguez and the murder he committed before he killed himself are being blamed on a cult led by his mother Karen Zerby and called The Family International.

Elsevier writes that "Rodriguez was a high-profile ex-member of the Children of God, also called the Family, a controversial hippie cult of the 1970s that had spiraled into aberrant sexual behaviors and other disconcerting practices. Rodriguez was seeking revenge for the sexual abuse that his murder victim and others had committed against him when he was a child (the cult had gone so far as to record its crimes in a bizarre book that glibly described—and provided photographic evidence of—sexual relations between adults and children)."

The Family International is a religious cult with many questionable aspects. The disturbing fact is also the thing that Karen Zerby had sex with his son, writes CNN.

The Family International describes David Berg in the following way: In 1941 he nearly died of pneumonia, shortly after being drafted into the U.S. Army. After determining to rededicate his life to Christian service, he experienced a miraculous healing.

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