Woman exposed nightmare being sexually abused by cult in the name of God

These 'Children of God' have been trained to be  'Hookers for Jesus' and suffered all kinds of abuses sexually and emotionally.

‘As you learned to brush your teeth as children, we learned to have sex.’ A Brazilian woman exposed her terrible experience growing up in notorious international sex cult 'The Children of God'.

Dawn Watson, like thousands of other children, has taken a long time to realize what the 'uncles' did were all abuses. ‘We learnt God is love and the way to express God’s love is through sexuality. I never knew anything different from that.’

She said she experienced abuse ‘in all forms. Abused sexually, abused emotionally and abused spiritually’.

This notorious cult was established by a twisted man named David Brandt Berg. He had a history of child abuse and used to be kicked out of the church but he created an image as 'Father David' among innocent women who didn't know what happened to their children. 

Dawn recalled her nightmare in a sober way. As a child, she was exposed to images of naked women nailed to crucifixes and posters captioned ‘Hookers for Jesus’. Women and children were encouraged to have alone time with uncles and showed their love to 'God' in sexual ways.

The cult tried all ways to brainwashed Dawn and other children, preventing them from getting any information that would challenge their power.  finally escaped from the cult at 13 and lived in other escapers' home. However, she was raped at 15, which pushed her to a desperate situation.

Dawn revealed she tried to commit suicide until she contacted her mom who finally got the strength to leave the cult. Dawn thought she was able to come home and started again. Now Dawn has begun a new life and trying to help others with her experience.

She set up charity Dawn Watson’s Institute to help other victims to rebuild their lives. 'Now I talk about it as “this is me and I am not ashamed of. This is where I came from.'

MADRID (AP) — Spain on Tuesday approved a plan aimed at making reparation and economic compensation for victims of sex abuse committed by people connected to the Catholic Church.

It also announced the future celebration of a public act of recognition for those affected and their families.

The Minister of the Presidency and Justice, Félix Bolaños, said the plan was based on recommendations in a report by Spain's Ombudsman last year. From that report, he said it was concluded that some 440,000 adults may have suffered sex abuse in Spain by people linked to the church and that roughly half of those cases were committed by clergy.

Bolaños said the compensation would be financed by the church.

But in a statement Tuesday, Spain’s Bishops Conference rejected the plan, saying it discriminated against victims outside of church circles.

No details of how much or when financial compensation would be paid were released. Neither was a date set for any public act of recognition.

Bolaños said the plan aimed to “settle a debt with those victims who for decades were forgotten by everyone and now our democracy aims to repair” that, and make it a central part of government policy.

After years of virtually ignoring the issue, Spain’s bishops apologized for the abuses committed by church members following the Ombudsman's report but disputed the number of victims involving the church as exaggerated. That report accused the church of widespread negligence.

Bolaños said the government hoped to carry out the plan over the next four years in collaboration with the church.

The project will include free legal assistance for all victims of sexual abuse and it will reinforce the prevention supervision in schools.

Only a handful of countries have had government-initiated or parliamentary inquiries into clergy sex abuse, although some independent groups have carried out their own investigations.

FILE - A woman prays at the San Ramon Nonato church after an Easter Holy Week procession was cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, April 9, 2020. Spain has approved a plan aimed at making reparation and economic compensation for victims of sex abuses committed by people connected to the Catholic Church. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)