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In Reply to: Re: Check Out How Great Cult Minds Think Alike posted by Candy on March 31, 2004 at 23:25:54:
Moon's version of "royal family" dysfunction is an interesting parallel, too. Seems they have a Deborah who's about to publish an expose of the "true family."
http://www.petermaass.com/core.cfm?p=1&mag=48&magtype=1
"Former church insiders have spoken of financial excesses at the heart of the "true family," as Moon's family is called. At least two of the thirteen children Moon had with his current wife (he has a son from an earlier marriage that ended in divorce) reportedly rebelled against him.
The most damaging scandal involves Hyo Jin, Moon's eldest son by his current wife and onetime heir apparent. In 1995, Hyo Jin's wife, Nansook Hong, fled the family compound in Irvington, New York, taking her five children, and subsequently filed for divorce and for a restraining order against Hyo Jin. In affidavits, she outlined a tale of drug use and spousal abuse by Hyo Jin, accusing him of "secreting himself in the master bedroom, sometimes for hours, sometimes for days, drinking alcohol, using cocaine and watching pornographic films." She said he beat her repeatedly, even when she was pregnant. Hyo Jin, through his lawyer, denies Nansook's accusations. Hyo Jin was jailed for a few months after failing to obey a court order to pay sixty-five thousand dollars toward Hong's legal fees.
At the end of 1997, Hyo Jin and Nansook reached a divorce agreement, in which she was granted full custody of their children. Nansook Hong has written a tell-all memoir, "In the Shadow of the Moons," which is being published this month byLittle, Brown, and she is scheduled to appear this Sunday on "60 Minutes." Yet despite such problems, Moon, who is seventy-eight, is beginning what may be his most ambitious campaign to eliminate evil from the world."
