What if?

I was thinking, what if the family stopped all the sexual oriented doctrines, admitted, even truthfully accounted for past incidences, but were still led by an Ultimate authority= Maria under the influence of insanity?
I mean, the Heaven's Gate people abstained to the point of some of the men neutering themselves, but look what happened to them (including that...)What makes the family a cult, and therefore potentially one step away from the Kool-Aid?
Of course, if they truthfully accounted for abuses, I guess leadership would have to continue, like Manson, from behind bars....