204: Wrath - Anne Hamilton-Byrne & "The Family"

Seven Deadly Sinners

Rachael O'Brien | Morbid Network | Wondery

True Crime, Exhibit C, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Family, also known as the Santiniketan Park Association or the Great White Brotherhood, was an Australian New Age group formed in the mid 1960s under the leadership of Anne Hamilton-Byrne. The group taught a hodgepodge of Western and Eastern religious doctrines, with Hamilton-Byrne claiming to have been a reincarnation of Jesus. Classic cult move, Anne....

The group became the centre of controversy when its compound in Olinda, Victoria, was raided by police in August 1987 amid allegations of child abuse. All children were removed from the premises, and were discovered to have been adopted through illegal means. Hamilton-Byrne and her husband were eventually arrested in 1993 and charged with conspiracy to defraud and to commit perjury in relation to the adoption scams, but those charges were eventually dropped and they fled on the lamb to the Catskill Mountains of New York.

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0:37.0	Of all the crimes that I investigated, she is the most evil person that I've ever met. it. I think every day there were beatings.
1:08.1	Some of the beatings were very vicious, I'm quite surprised that people survived them.
1:15.0	She had me under LST for days.
1:18.0	She'd just come in like every 12 hours or so and give me another piece because I wasn't working hard enough. These are some of the 28
1:25.3	children collected by cult leader Ann Hamilton Byrne. She wanted us to be the new race of children, these perfect children who would save the world.
1:36.5	I had to start it. That was the divine vision.
1:41.1	That was a clip from New York's CBS Channel 2. Just a hint of what we would be covering in this episode.
1:47.0	We have heard of colds using psychedelic drugs in the past,
1:51.0	but this one involves LSD being used on children.
1:55.0	And when children are involved, that's a whole different level of abuse.
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