Word: deprogramed
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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Civil Action. Patrick exulted after the trial in what he called "a great victory for the nation." Even on the weekend before the verdict, he told TIME Correspondent Richard Ostling, he had been busy in Rhode Island trying to deprogram a young woman member of the Children of God. Now, he said, he might go on a speaking tour to pay his lawyer's fees; when he comes back to deprogramming, he may demand a fee on top of the expenses he has hitherto asked. As for the New Testament Fellowship, whose members now escort each other to avoid...
...Bernard Parmetter, for example, armed with a can of Mace, abducted her son Lee. But authorities, in turn, forced her to release him because he was 21. Dan Voll, who was seized in New York, has filed an assault charge against Patrick; his lawyer, John LeMoult, argues that most deprogram ming raids involve assault and unlaw ful imprisonment. But since parents are involved, federal officials do not in prac tice deem the abductions kidnaping...