A woman who survived a cult has spoken out about the toxic culture inside the group - saying that babies were taken from their mothers and forced into marriage as children.
Serena Kelley, 40, was born into the Children of God - a religious organisation founded by David Berg that has widely been denounced as a cult.
Her mother, Sara, was a senior leader in the group and Serena herself was given up as a wife to the leader when she was just three - and at his side she witnessed countless horrors.
Serena was raised by strangers and given a cult name, Mary Dear. Comics were even made by the organisation about her childhood, and she became a quasi-celebrity amongst the followers of the Children of God.
But Serena recognised the group for what it was and as soon as she was old enough, she ran away and started a new life.
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The Children of God, which at one stage had bases all over the world including the Philippines and Japan, encouraged promiscuity between members and believed that children became adults of the age at 12.
Serena was given as a wife to David Berg - aka Father David - by her mother, Sara, who was a leading member of the organisation.
This, she says, isolated her from the other children but not from the adults - who took part in mass orgies and would walk around in the nude in front of her when she was just a small child.
Aged just three, Serena was taken from her mother to be raised by other high-profile members of the cult while her mum went on to become one of the organisation's top leaders.
Serena from Austin, Texas, continued: "I think the most famous story from my very early childhood with Berg was when I was given to him as a child bride by my mother, so she brought me to him after I turned three - just after my third birthday.
"She put me on his lap and he kissed me and he gave a whole speech about how I'm going to be his forever and we're having a union. Things that don't make sense to a three-year-old.
"Then he gave me a ring and the ring was quite big, but what he had done was wrapped tape around the band to make it thick enough to fit on my finger and he told me to always wear the ring and take tape off as I got older so the ring would always fit me.
"It's pretty sick he thought that far ahead into the future.
"He had already been married to multiple other teenage girls, I happened to be the youngest at three. There were other girls aged 12 to 15 who had been given the ring, it's a heart with two hands holding it."
Even though women had always been objects of sex within the cult, initially children were considered to be off-limits but that changed with the Law of Love.
Serena alleged: "In Berg's house I was subjected to a lot of sexual abuse, both for myself and what I witnessed. There were orgies in Berg's house all the time, many times I'd be left alone to wander the house by myself because there'd be drunken orgies in the living room.
"I'd be swimming in the pool and there would be orgies at the other end of the pool. There was nakedness and sexuality all around me.
"We were in the Philippines and the women would walk around naked or topless, and the men would walk around in boxers."
She told how Berg lived in a separate house but would come over for play sessions in which they'd have to call him 'Grandpa'.
What struck her most was the 'terrible' smell about him, which she later recognised to be alcohol.
Relieving those awful sessions, she said: "It was mostly kissing and cuddling in the bed, very inappropriate things.
"There were other kids including his own daughter and his granddaughter, my older sister, there were a lot of girls that were subjected to this.
"Berg believed that we should follow bible rules, so in the bible they believe that a child becomes an adult at 12.
"Berg literally said when you're 12 you're an adult now so you're going to start having sex with adults, and start living like an adult so working, having adult responsibilities. The 12-year-old girls would look after me.
"They were considered old enough to do that, and they would have to have sex with adults."
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