Judgment Of Lord Justice Ward Concerning The Family

JUDGEMENT OF LORD JUSTICE WARD CONCERNING THE FAMILY : PT 7

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THE RT. HON. LORD JUSTICE WARD DATED 19TH OCTOBER 1995

W 42 1992 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

FAMILY DIVISION

PRINCIPAL REGISTRY IN THE MATTER OF ST (A MINOR)

AND IN THE MATTER OF THE SUPREME COURT ACT 1991h

Lord Justice Ward

7. The P Family

Because they have been so heavily involved in the media
campaign against The Family, I initially viewed their
evidence with some scepticism. MP was particularly
aggressive in the way she gave evidence. Her language was
deliberately crude and she seemed as determined to paint as
a perverted picture as SF was to view life through rose
coloured spectacles. The truth lies somewhere in between
these two extremes. In fairness to SF, I should not overlook
VP's evidence that SF discouraged her from a close
relationship with a boy aged 13 or 14. In order to put in
perspective a false picture of rampant sexual activity
enjoyed all the time by all the teenagers, I must bear in
mind that VP herself remained aloof from this activity
though she was, of course, a good bit younger than some of
the others. She also made the point that practices varied
from place to place. Mexico, where they went after India,
was "quite loose and people did what they wanted." When she
went to Wantage, about which more later, she was rebuked for
holding hands which she found strange because there was so
much sex around when she was young.

8. A striking confirmation of the fact that The Family's
attitude to child sexuality was very different from "the
system's" came from the evidence of MA who told me very
frankly, and therefore to his credit, that he and his wife
were approached by a couple who had been in Greece (where
even The Family tacitly acknowledged excesses occurred) and
who suggested that their son aged 10 should share with their
daughter of the same age, an invitation which the MA's
rejected, apparently to the other couple's surprise.

9. DR, as fervent a supporter of The Family as one could
find, slipped into her evidence, self righteously, I
thought, that there was an occasion aged 11 when a boy of
the same age wanted to have sexual intercourse with her and
was disconcerted by her refusal. What was unconsciously
revealing of this incident was her adding that he rebuked
her for being selfish, just as Berg denounced all refusals
to give sexual pleasure, the message of "The Girl who
Wouldn't".

CONCLUSION:

Not all children were engaged in sexual activity but far too
many were. That was directly the result of growing up within
the "sexy Family". For those used to that freedom, they had
a considerable difficulty in adjusting to the restrictions
that were imposed upon them in 1988. Some continued to enjoy
the freedom notwithstanding the ban. I am satisfied that
since then The Family have been so concerned to refute the
allegations of child abuse that the children now grow up
sexually more conservative than many of their contemporaries
in the system. I cannot find that S is at any greater risk
of experiencing untimely inappropriate sexual contact with
other children.

CHILD/ADULT SEX

The issues joined between the parties

In her answer designed to clarify the issues in this case,
the defendant pleaded that The Family had never encouraged
sexual activity between adults and children; that the
sentiments expressed in "My Little Fish", though
unacceptable, were written by Sara before the establishment
of The Family and that it did not represent Family policy,
which is to excommunicate any member guilty of sexual abuse
of a child. On attempt being made further to clarify this,
the following admissions were formally made at a hearing for
directions:-

"For the purposes of the Wardship proceedings regarding S,
the senior leadership of The Family acknowledges and admits
that:-

a) Father David taught, and it was and is generally accepted
in The Family, that sex and sexual activity as God
prescribed is a natural God-given aspect of creation and
human make-up.

b) Notwithstanding the existence of a large number of Family
members who would never have tolerated any inappropriate
sexual contact between adults and minors, prior to 1986 -
there was within The Family an over-simplistic and naive
attitude concerning the sexuality of developmentally and
emotionally immature children

c)that there were some instances of children having sexually
inappropriate contact with adults and being exposed to
inappropriate adult sexuality."

2. The Family denies that:

a) Such behaviour was ever institutionalised or

b) Was Family policy or

c) Was representative of the norm within The Family homes

3. It is denied that such inappropriate conduct was either
widespread, encouraged or endemic.

4. In or about 1986 evidence came to the attention of the
senior leadership that there had been instances of
inappropriate sexual conduct between adults and teenagers,
and the leadership took immediate action to prevent any
further abuse by clearly stating that The Family did not
agree with such behaviour and that it was not permitted."

THE LITERATURE

"Revolutionary Sex," March 1973.

This had the early assertion that, "All things are lawful
unto us" and the message was that any act done in love was
lawful as far as God was concerned. Berg asked whether
masturbation was not one of the prohibited sexual offences
and referred to his mother slapping their poor little
Mexican maid out of the house when Berg was only 3 years old
when his mother caught the maid putting him to sleep "in
this pleasant fashion" (by oral masturbation) "a common
practice among many other more primitive cultures." He
recounted his earlier attempts at sexual intercourse at the
age of 7 as I have already set out. He then learnt that the
Bible apparently had absolutely nothing to say about
masturbation and evidently nothing against it except the
unusual admonition "to be temperate in all things." He went
on to state that children should be taught that their body
was a beautiful creation of God and that sex was not sinful.
The revolutionary message of the letter was "go ahead and
masturbate and/or fuck with all your might and thank God for
it." It was a letter clearly designed to break down
acknowledged taboos. It was the beginning of the process of
sexualizing children.

Little Girl Dream, October 1976

This showed a drawing of Berg in a bed in church, Maria on
one side and a little girl on the other, her hand on his
penis. In the text of the letter he wrote:-

"This beautiful dark haired little girl of about 10 or 11
came and crawled in bed with me! She lay half on top of me
although on her back and she laid her hand behind right down
on top of my genitals and across my right leg.... I thought
to myself, "Well, how tempting can you get!" She looked like
she really wanted me to make love to her but I certainly
didn't want to do it in front of all these people especially
since she was so young.....I was very concerned about what
they would think. It was bad enough for her to be in bed
with me all naked, all of us naked under the cover without
actually going at it!....Here's this young girl who wants my
love, but I was afraid to give it to her because of what
people, systemite church people obviously, might say. That
is, of course, our greatest risk here, incurring the wrath
of the church and the system in loving this new little
church that is springing up with such fervour and zeal and
witnessing ardour, that is so very much on fire for the Lord
through our FF witnessing here (Tenerife). How are we
winning this new little church? We are winning it with our
love both spiritually and sexually so that is very
significant...It was almost like she was deliberately trying
to get me to make love to her so that she could bear fruit,
which certainly this young church is doing here right now."

Even if this is an allegory for his new church, the
illustration is horridly explicit. The message could,
therefore, just as easily be understood to be that just as
it was permissible for the young church of the Children of
God to defy the conventions of the established churches, so
that it was permissible for a young child to have some
sexual contact in bed with an old man.

"My Childhood Sex" - June 1977

He reminded his readers about his Mexican baby sitter when
he was 3 and he said:-

"I think I was in love with that little Mexican girl, she
was wonderful, she really made me happy! She used to suck me
to sleep for my nap every afternoon. I loved it! But my
mother began to get curious....I wasn't any little angel, I
was just waiting to get sucked! I had orgasms and really
enjoyed it. I always got nice and relaxed and went to sleep
right after. So I got started liking sex at an early age.
But my mother was not very progressive....I don't know what
was naughty about it. I enjoyed it! It worked! Look at me, I
don't think it did me any harm! Of course if you'd ask any
of my enemies, they'd say, "Ah Ha, see! that's what made him
such a sex maniac!"...It just stands to reason that if it
feels good at that age, then the Lord intended for kids to
get used to feeling good with sex. If they can even have an
orgasm at that age, he intended for them to be able to have
an orgasm and enjoy it! Why not? What's evil about an
orgasm?"

This revolutionary policy statement must have caused some
stir when it was published and re-published 14 months later
in August 1978. Berg's daughter, Faithy, wrote her reaction
to it in these terms:-

"Childhood Sex: I like it! It reminded me of how you used to
put me to sleep when I was a little girl, 3 or 4. Wow! Daddy
did it best! Back rubbin' that is, and front rubbin'
too!...Daddy just made me feel good all over and I didn't
know why, but it would really put me to sleep with a sigh!
Praise the Lord! I don't think it perverted me, none at all,
but it sure converted me to his call! So I believe our
parents should try it and help our kids to get the natural
habit! We pray it'll work, then junior won't be a sexual
jerk! It worked for me as you can see, I just do what comes
naturally! Oh I could write a book, but this is just a look
into my childhood sex!"

(My emphasis yet again to point out (1) that Family
literature for which the leadership is entirely responsible
here exhorts The Family to try "front rubbin', which can
only mean masturbation, and (2) that the example they are
urged to follow is that of their beloved leader touching his
3 or 4 year old daughter in a way ordinary good parents know
they find utterly repellent. What should it tell them about
David Berg? What responsibility does this now cast on Maria
and Peter Amsterdam to "pow-wow" these questions?

At the same date as Childhood Sex, The Family published
"Uncircumcision". In what might have been a helpful
discussion on the subject of whether or not to circumcise
boys, Berg could resist adding sexual comment such as his
advice to the men to wash their penis "if you want the girls
to play with it, especially if you want them to suck it!"

He gave this advice for dealing with young children:

"Try putting a little baby oil or vaseline on it to
lubricate it real good before pulling the foreskin down. The
mucus of your mouth is a good lubricant too! And he'll love
it!....It's so much better to gradually stretch it by slowly
working it down by hand in love and patience - and lots of
fun...knowing my mother's attitude towards sex, I don't
presume that appealed to her much, but I began to enjoy the
treatment as it loosened up! Hallelujah!"

The Davidito Book

This was first printed in a series of letters from about
1975 to 1981 and then reprinted in 1982. In the letter "The
Advantages of Having Children" May 1978, Berg explained how
when Maria became pregnant, they discovered there was no
childcare ministry and so they obtained whatever literature
they needed and decided they did not like it "because it was
not the way we believed in rearing kids!" It seems that
Davidito had started the childcare revolution. Berg wrote:-

"You can throw a lot of that old stuff out! We're writing a
whole new childcare series called The Davidito Series. Maria
was wondering why she had to get pregnant and have a baby.
She couldn't see any good reason for it at all, but look
what happened! God knew why! Amen? PLT! Davidito was to
become an example to the world and inspire" lots of
childcare material! Thank God!"

Berg was, in my judgment, quite clear giving his approval to
whatever was being written and he was assuming
responsibility for it. It is naive of The Family to seek to
distance the leadership from this book and cast the sole
blame upon Sara. In their original answer filed in this
case, that is exactly what they sought to do.

The book contained these passages:-

a) Learning fun at 20 months, October '76.

"Sex! he gets quite excited when I wash his bottom and his
penie gets real big and hard. I kiss it all over till he
gets so excited he bursts into laughter and spreads his legs
open for more. I wonder what it's going to be like when he
begins to talk and asks me for more? When playing on the
floor he's often times spread his legs open for me to kiss
his penis (what we call his penie). He got to where he liked
it so much he'd pull people by the hand down onto the floor
and would spread his legs apart for "the treatment" so we
had to explain to him that there are a lot more important
things in life than just sex, and for a time and place for
everything!" (I note that this chapter appeared at the same
time as "Little Girl Dream.")

b) At the age of 2 years and 3 months Davidito is taken
to a brothel and in the early hours one of the girls "gave a
special little show for Davidito with her gyrations and
heavy breathing, running her hands over her body, really
turning everybody on".

c) In Bed Bugs, May 1977 with Davidito 2 years 4 months.
Sara wrote:-

"Sex! Now if I share with you some of Davidito's sexy
experiences, will you try prayerfully and cautiously to
benefit from the lessons learned and follow the Lord's
leadings in possibly sharing the same kind of gentle love
and fun, without stumbling our little sheep? Sex is a
beautiful God-given wonderful part of life we enjoy together
and we would love to share it with you as long as you don't
use it as "an occasion to the flesh" and in some way that
could actually harm or confuse the children. It is often
times the little ones who suffer through our big people
mistakes." (In other words, provided you do it in love, the
child will not suffer harm or confusion - a thesis that Dr.
Heller, NT's own expert, roundly deprecates.) "So we'll
attempt to share a few of our experiences with you, not so
that you will try to do exactly what we do," ( then why on
earth tell them this sordid little encounter? ) "but because
it's part of little David's life story, praise the Lord. On
28th April after nap time Alfred, Davidito and I were all
three loving up, when Dito looked at me with those big
dreamy canary black eyes and said, "Sarah I yub you". He
pulled me down to kiss him, then pushed my head down to kiss
some more! It all developed so gently and lovingly that he
was really affectionate, eyes closed, so guess what
happened? For a bouncing climax (ha), he spoke out in
excited foreign tongues! He sounded so very
happy....afterwards he lay still in my arms to rest....now
often when we lay on the bed together....he'll put his arm
around me and say, "Sarah, love me up big".

That letter cannot be interpreted otherwise than Sara
kissing the boys penis and the boy later simulating sexual
intercourse with her as is shown in one of the pictures. To
that Berg added this comment, again an indication of his
participation in the writing of this book and his approval
of it:

"God made children able to enjoy sex so he must have
expected them to. I did! All my life! Thank God! I love it!
And it didn't hurt me any! Nearly all kids to anyhow despite
prohibitions! And the only reason the system frowns on it is
that the churches have taught sex as evil! Which is contrary
to the Bible! How could God have created sexual enjoyment to
be a sin? The system is really screwed up! God help us!
They're the ones not normal! But let not your good be evil
spoken of! So take it easy!"

(d) At 2 yrs 7 months Sara wrote:-

"Dito and I loved up together after our bath! Ha! What a
revolutionary life we do lead!".

The photograph below that passage showed the two of them
naked on the bed with Sara fondling the boys penis.

(e) There were some words of caution. In December 1977:-

"And please remember dear Family, that we do not share
Davidito's own experiences or lessons with you expecting you
to always do the very same thing with your own children. Dad
and Maria are hoping to prepare themselves for a very
special God appointed mission in life. He is a royal
prince...he has matured and grown very fast, much like Dad
himself, always ahead of us, who his followers learn from as
an example. Of course all our Family children are very
special and we have an extremely important mission to fulfil
in these latter days we do hope you can apply what lessons
you may have learnt from this story in their disciple
training. What a wonderful opportunity and blessing that we
can all take part in helping to teach God's little children
who are so chosen in new fresh vessels the way the truth and
the life of Jesus Christ and our shepherd and king David."

As I read that it is more encouraging than discouraging.

(f) In August 1979 the now notorious "My Little Fish"
chapter was published. There were citations from
Revolutionary Sex and accompanying photographs. They showed,
for example, Davidito kissing Sara's breasts and squeezing
her nipples, they showed them together naked in bed hugging
each other under the caption "Enjoy yourself in what God has
given you to enjoy" and in another photograph under a
caption "When two shall lie together they shall have heat."
The original also had the photograph of Sara sucking the
boy's penis above a caption "It's a wonderful relaxation, a
satisfaction created by the Lord". At the time it was
published, My Childhood Sex, itself published four months
earlier, might have been fresh in everyone's mind. That it
was outrageously inappropriate seems to be conceded silently
by that omission of that photograph when the book was
published in 1982.

(g) In March 1978 at aged 3 years 2 months Davidito
wandered around watching the copulating couples at the
"come-union":

"So next he wanted his turn and as soon as I got into bed he
jumped on me and said "Sarah love me". He specifically asked
for several swigs of wine, got happy real quick so we really
had a good time! Alf, Tim and Mommy were outside the door
listening to him. "Sara now kiss it!" and then he began to
laugh and laugh. "Oh it flopped in your nose!"...he kept
asking for more and more love....We were all really
surprised that he took everything so well, since he didn't
have a playmate too and is usually very jealous about
"sharing" but he waited his turn and was a real good boy."

(h) In April 1978 at 3 years 3 months Sara wrote:

"Sex - (do you find yourself looking for this part to read
first? Ha!) Several times while I was gone to Egypt, David
mentioned he'd wished I'd hurry home to bed. The day upon my
return we had a nice picnic lunch with Alf right by the
riverside near our house. David wanted to bring a blanket
and a scented candle so that we could make love, but there
were too many people around so we didn't quite get to the
climax, Ha. But it was a real cute idea. He's so precious!
One night when Alf and the cook were kissing and cuddling in
the living room on the living room couch, David came into
the bedroom and offered me a glass of wine then suggested
that we go together into the living room to be with Alf. We
sat down and he said, "Have some apply juice," because he's
only a little boy and once served then we began to love up
too. We got undressed and he got real affectionate, trying
to do just what Alf did."

What can this be other than that this 3 year old boy was
participating in sexual shenanigans with his nanny?

The book ended with a cartoon of Berg holding Davidito and
saying, "Davidito do you know what you're doing? You're
teaching the whole world how to take care of babies!"

The leadership must have known and intended that this book
be acted upon by The Family. In July 1978 they published in
Family News a letter from one of the members who wrote with
reference to her new child that she wondered now how these
letters were going to become a reality in his life. Had she
not been perverted by them?

The Devil Hates Sex. May 1980.

This letter was not produced by he Family despite it being
called for. Dr Melton had to make it available. It contained
these passages:-

(a) "Of course the worst of all sexual sins is with
children. "How could you besmirch and defile and violate
your own child? An under-aged minor!". I don't know what the
hell age has got to do with it when God made'm able to enjoy
it practically from time they are born! But though God
didn't want them as under-age to have sexual feelings and
sexual responses and sexual nerves and sexual organs from
the time they are born, the system prohibits them from
having them until they are 18-21 years of age....I mean to
teach sexual freedom and sexual liberty as downright
dangerous! Look at how the newspapers of Britain have
reacted to some of our simple little instructions about how
to get the foreskin of your little boy down so that you can
wash him! They call that child sex...and I'll tell you it's
dangerous because the system sure hates it, and the system's
laws and everything are geared against sexual activity of
all kinds and types, particularly having anything to do with
children! Who don't even have to be a child, just a
minor...there's nothing in the world at all wrong with sex
as long as its practised in love, whatever it is, or whoever
its with, no matter who, or at what age or what relative or
in what manner," (I have added the emphasis)" and you don't
hardly dare even say these words in private. If the law ever
got a hold of this, they'd try to string me up! They'd
probably lynch me before I got to the jail."

It is impossible to read that without being certain that
Berg had well in mind that his advocating sex with someone
at no matter what age, was to advocate sex with children and
he rightly appreciated the condemnation that would be heaped
upon him when his views became known outside The Family.

He went on :-

"I'm talking about natural normal Godly love as manifested
in sex, as far as I am concerned for whomever! There are no
relationship restrictions or age limitations in his law of
love. But the system and laws make it all against the
law...The system really stinks. It is.... fiendish
propaganda against the laws of God and the love of God and
the sex of God." (Again my emphasis)

It must have been known to the leadership how the Law of
Love was being applied within The Family for he wrote:-

"We are free in our hearts now, we are free in privacy, and
that's about all and we mightn't be free if they discovered
what we do in private."

Other pieces of evidence of the leadership's knowledge
emerge from some of the papers before me.

a) Some time in about 1980 Shuly wrote to World Services.
In the letter "Growing Up in the Lord" she referred to her
fears of growing up. She wrote:

"I had seen quite a few examples of 'lust', not 'love' like
in your letters, so that just about rooted my fear. For 5
long years I had the trial that I'd have to start "sharing"
as soon as I was old enough and the devil painted me
pictures of horrible hairy guys making a line at the door."

She asked:

"Do you think other teenage girls are going through the
trials I was about sharing? It would be interesting to
know".

She was just 16.

In another letter, "Sex should be fun", she wrote about
being

"sad and upset when I read what another teenage girl said
about "going thru it" in the area of sexual sharing. It
really struck me, because more kids in the family are
becoming teenagers and it would be a shame if they had to
"go thru it" too. Here's part of a letter I received from a
13 year old girl, a friend of mine, in The Family:

"Well I went thru it at first because it was kind of hard
relating to older brothers at about 30 years old when I had
just turned 13. And when I started maturing and started to
look beautiful the guys they would go around pinching and
slapping my butt, squeezing my tits etc., and for me this
was a real turn off. It's sort of different when you "share"
with someone your own age, you're just having fun and it's
easier to relate to each other and open up but with someone
twice your age you feel funny with them and you take it more
seriously. And sometimes when my parents shared or fell in
love with someone, I felt like I was deserted and left along
with the kids and this really turned me off sharing and sex.
So they thought I wasn't quite as "free" as they were, so
they decided to break my hang ups".

Shuly then described her affair with Berg's grandson when
she was 13. She wrote:-

"Although I am 16 I still don't feel mature enough to have
anything to do with a grown man. Maybe it's hard for you to
understand but sometimes a grown man can overpower a young
girl and dominate her. Having a relationship with Junior
cured me of the loathing of sex and a terror of older men
due to the effect of an unwise older brother in our
home....I think Child Brides is a wonderful letter because
some (not all) teenagers really need to have fun with
someone their own age group first....Many guys think that
just because a young girl had an "experience" that she is
"available". If a girl goes thru' it as far as sex it's
probably because she's being pressured into it, not wanting
to appear to be A Girl Who Wouldn't but she just isn't ready
for any experience with older brethren or the particular
ones in question. Although I've had an experience I would go
through trials if I was pressured into sharing with an older
guy...I think it's a shame to have to go through trials when
sex should be something beautiful. I write because a sad
experience could put some people off the wonderful love
shared in the family. May God bless and keep you Dad. Your
daughter in Jesus. Shuly."

To that Berg replied:

"Praise the Lord! God bless you! Amen! We heartily agree!
And real love lasts!"

That was an opportunity for Berg to appreciate that young
teenagers, as young as 13, were being forced to have sexual
relations with older men. It was the opportunity for him to
stamp out that practice had he deprecated it. He did not
take that opportunity. By his silence he condoned it. His
sanctimonious agreement was a reassertion of the principal
that if it was done in love it was permissible. He totally
failed to take on board that this young girl was pointing
out the imbalance of power and the pressure older men by
virtue of age alone exerted upon children. He was prescient
enough to have recognised in the Law of Love that the
freedom was capable of being abused. Here was the evidence
that it was being abused. He did nothing to control it. This
was a lamentable failure to stamp out the wrong doing which
he had instigated. His failure to act was indefensible.

(b) On the same page as that letter was another dealing with
the sexual activity of Reuben aged 6 and another child Jonas
both having their little lovers among other little sisters
who sometimes visited them. It referred to 3 year old
Emanual who "loves Mommy up", an activity described as "so
sweet".

(c) In the "Blessings of Older Children", a couple wrote
that their 9 year old son "was so in love with one sister
and really went through trials when he knew a particular
older brother was sleeping with her."

(d) In about 1981 a video was made for Berg and it showed
a man Appeles and his wife Sally and his young son J1. Sally
referred to sharing with J1 and H1, Berg's grandson. Both
boys were aged about 10.

e) In April 1983 a television programme "TV Eye" was
broadcast and Dennis Tuohy extracted allegations of a 3 year
old girl having oral sex with her step father and a man
having sexual relations with his 9 year old daughter. A Mr
Geoff Whitcher, then a member of The Family, took part in
that programme. I find it incredible to believe it was not
reported back to World Service. Although this aspect was not
investigated, there must be every likelihood that the matter
of child sex was already a matter of public concern. The
Family could not have been unaware of it. Whether they were
or not, there is abundant evidence from The Family's own
records to satisfy me that the leadership were aware of the
problem well before the disclosure was made to the Teen
Training Camp in Mexico in 1986. To assert that that was the
first knowledge that came to the attention of the senior
leadership and that the senior leadership "took immediate
action to prevent any further abuse" is disingenuous.

f. In 1985 Berg was still fuelling these flames. In a
chapter of "Heaven's Children", Grandpa went down to Earth.
The story involved Berg making love to teenaged Techi. The
drawing shows him in bed with Maria on one side and Techi on
the other. There can be no artistic, literary or theological
justification for such dangerously irresponsible material
which could only tend to inflame and could never defuse
improper passions. He returned to that refrain later in
Heaven's Girl published in April 1987 and possibly published
in chapter form earlier than that. This allegorical tale
concerned Marie, pictorially a mixture of Techi and MB and
among her many exploits, one is a fairly crude and explicit
multiple rape of the girl by brutal soldiers. Another is a
description of Marie "beginning to undulate and pulsate in
beautiful sexual rhythm as she loves and makes love to her
loving prophet, Dad". This book is standard reading for the
children in the family but one has to doubt whether the
English Literature class could ever have learnt anything -
except perhaps to hone their skills in literary criticism -
from passages on Marie's "explosive and ecstatic moment of a
powerful orgasm, her cries of ecstasy and moans of pleasure"
or her "heavily panting gorgeous young body settling down in
sheer ecstasy and utmost satisfaction having thoroughly
enjoyed her thrilling love-making encounter with her beloved
David" . By any standards it is nauseating material to place
before young children.

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