A woman who was born into a sex cult and given up as a wife to the leader when she was only three years old has opened up about the horrifying acts she witnessed
. Serena Kelley, now 40, was a poster child when she was just a toddler for 'the Children of God', a religious organisation founded by David Berg that has widely been denounced as a cult.
"Shortly after my mother moved to his compound, she was pregnant with me. He decided he was going to document my entire life from before I was born. They wrote publications documenting my mother's pregnancy and he named me Serena and Mary-Dear, which became my cult name. Founded by David Berg in 1968, the popular cult grew and the height of it's success, it had 13,000 members in 130 communities across the world. One of the key foundations of the Children of God 'family' was sex.
"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.
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'. She recalls that one of the most awful things was the 'terrible' smell about him which she later learned was alcohol. "They would put music on and make us dance. Of course, me being three or four, I had no idea what the hell was going on. So I'd see my older sister, who is seven years older than me, by the time I was four she was 10 or 11-years-old already, so she was used to this treatment.
Ricky was handed over to Berg and cared for by a team of nannies who were told to 'raise him for sex almost from birth' Evil Berg died in 1994 but his title was filled immediately by his lover, Karen Zerby. She said: "I was considered secret because I was in the cult publications and raised with Berg, and my mother was a top leader, so I was treated differently to other kids. In Japan, I didn't mind because the commune was 300 people, and we just appeared there in the middle of the night.
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