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May 30, 2024 · May 30, 2024 - 12:40PM. An Australian has shared a heartbreaking plea after revealing they were “one of the last Anne Hamilton-Byrne child survivors” — a reference to the notorious doomsday cult that operated outside Melbourne between 1963 and 1989.
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Eventually police raided the property, at Lake Eildon in Victoria's alpine region, in 1987 and the children were rescued. Ms Hamilton-Byrne was arrested in the US with the help of the FBI in 1993, but was only prosecuted for minor offences in Australia. She was never charged with abuse, but fined $5,000 for falsifying the documents of three of the ...
After receiving news of the death, Mr de Man spoke to some of those who grew up in the cult. He said it was a day of mixed emotions for many. "I feel for those who are no longer with us, who suffered at the hands of Anne and her cult, for the police who were on the taskforce and who are no longer with us," he said. "The survivors, they need to be c...
Ms Hamilton-Byrne had been suffering from dementia before she died aged 98. The cult was the subject of an ABC documentary called The Cult of The Family. Rosie Jones, who directed another documentary on the cult, said Ms Hamilton-Byrne lured many of her victims in with her charm and good looks. "She was basically Jesus Christ reincarnated in the vi...
Anne Hamilton-Byrne, who claimed to be Jesus Christ reincarnated, led a doomsday sect that abused children for decades. She died in 2019, after being arrested and fined for falsifying adoption documents.
Mar 8, 2023 · In the mid-1960s, Australian yoga teacher Anne Hamilton-Byrne founded the Family Cult and convinced her followers she was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.
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Aug 19, 2019 · Up to that moment in August 1987, his world had been shaped by Anne Hamilton-Byrne, a glamorous and charismatic yoga instructor who, in the late 1960s, had persuaded her followers to join a...
Jun 14, 2019 · Australian cult leader Anne Hamilton-Byrne has died in Melbourne at the age of 98. Her cult, The Family, was accused of imprisoning and brainwashing children in the 1970s and 80s....
Jun 16, 2019 · Anne Hamilton-Byrne, who was the founder of The Family cult and convinced people she was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, died on Friday. She was 98. In an interview with Weekend Today, former detective Lex De Man said the question that he would live with for the rest of his life was why Hamilton-Byrne was never jailed for her crimes.
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Feb 25, 2018 · To some, Anne Hamilton-Byrne was a yoga teacher with a penchant for plastic surgery. To others, she was the evil leader of The Family -- an apocalyptic cult with about 500...
