FBI's sexual abuse investigation into Christian sect reaches SA

"Living with the shame and the double shame of the church and it all being hidden is life-shattering. There have been so many victims and I feel their pain.

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The survivor was sexually abused at the age of nine when Worker A was in his mid-20s and a brother in the sect. The man had “groomed me over time, calling me his little lamb, his helper, and twirling my hair”.

At a church convention in Durban in 1983, Worker A lured the child to the edge of the grounds near a stream, where the alleged sexual assault took place. Afterwards, Worker A had threatened that “God would punish me if I told anyone”. A day later, he offered the child “pink musk sweets”, which he described as their “quiet sweets”.