Word: koresh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...asked me," says Isabel of Kathy. "She said, 'Mother, do you think I should go to Texas?' " Fatta had introduced Kathy to David Koresh, and Koresh had invited her to Waco for Davidian Passover in 1991. "I said, 'No, you don't know what you're getting into, and it's another state.' " Kathy went anyway. Isabel actually manages a smile: "She was stubborn." She and Fatta talked about marriage, but then broke up; Koresh had prohibited relationships...
Shortly after meeting Fatta, Kathy stopped wearing jewelry. Now, back from Waco, she said she had learned about the seven seals. She made plans to go again, saying she would stay only five weeks. But once there she talked more and more of Koresh. And she never returned...
After a while, her younger sister moved to be with her. Isabel didn't understand why. Only later did she hear that Kathy had been pregnant -- by Koresh. "That was the worst thing that ever happened in our lives," says Guillermo. Isabel glares at him. "Well, at the time," he adds emptily. "Now it's nothing...
Isabel visited the sisters in Waco in 1991. Now she knew more about cults and was trying to get them out. They did not mention the child Chanel, and she didn't either. Her daughters looked thin but healthy. Not brainwashed, despite Koresh's endless preaching...
...cult expert told her to keep going down, keep gaining trust. That was last January. Things had changed. "Kathy was deteriorating," says Isabel. Koresh still preached, but now the sermons Isabel audited contained profanities. She returned again in February. Kathy stared straight ahead and recited Koreshian dogma for 15 minutes running. Isabel talked with a friend about kidnapping the girls but decided against it. Instead she began calling every week, every week, trying to lure them from Koresh's grip...