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Education consisted of home schooling and hours-long twice-daily biblical lessons taught by a rambling Koresh. Sometimes he jumped from the chapel stage to paddle young ones who were crying or being disruptive. "You never knew what he was going to be," says Kiri Jewell, 12, who was taken from the compound by her natural father in 1991. "One minute he was nice, and the next he was suddenly nasty." The children also learned songs filled with violent apocalyptic imagery. War and martial-arts films proliferated in the cult's video library. Koresh preached that the world was full...
...converted to the Seventh-Day Adventist Church; she had been brought up a Methodist. She went to Michigan to teach high school, and married a student seven years her junior, David Jewell, who was also a Seventh-Day Adventist. Mosher did not trust David. The couple had a daughter, Kiri, but the marriage was turbulent. Mosher found that out when Sherri asked her to spend a month with them. "She was so sad," Mosher recalls. "Sherri was always a very up person. She was having such a hard time...
Sherri and David split up and finally divorced in 1984. Broke and distraught, Sherri took Kiri back to Hawaii. At a Seventh-Day Adventist church there, she was befriended by Marc Breault, a disciple of Vernon Howell's -- the leader later known as David Koresh. When Sherri was back in California and living with her mother, Breault "would call her at all hours of the night and talk for hours," says Mosher. Sherri was introduced to Koresh, who thrilled her with his preaching. "Are you telling me you think this guy is the Lamb of God? You think...
Once she moved to Waco, Sherri withdrew even more. She was impossible to contact, and she sought to end David's regular visits with Kiri. He grew alarmed when Breault, who had broken with Koresh, warned him and Sherri's mother of the abusive practices going on in the cult. Sherri, Breault said, was one of Koresh's favored wives. The gold pendant worn by Kiri, only 10, was a sign that Koresh planned to take her too as a wife...
...When Kiri went to Michigan just after Christmas in 1991 to visit her father, he won emergency custody of the child. David recalls Sherri's foreboding words to her daughter when they parted for the last time: "Have as much fun as you can in the time you have left." It was Sherri, though, who had only a year to live...