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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...
Girls were singled out early as Koresh's sex-partners-to-be. Some as young as 11 wore a plastic Star of David around their neck, while others wore a thin gold band on their finger. Koresh spoke openly about the details of sex to prepare them for intercourse. "Sexual themes were associated with pleasing Koresh," says Perry, "and procreating ((to fill)) the earth with his glorious seed...
...four of the 21 surviving children have been placed with parents and relatives. Yet Koresh still looms as an ambivalent shadow, a daunting memory. In their drawings the compound is both riddled with bullet holes and depicted as the kingdom of heaven. In other drawings, they surrounded the words I LOVE DAVID with hearts. "They learned to substitute the word love for fear," Perry told the New York Times. Living a normal life will not be easy. "We were all waiting for the end to happen," says Kiri Jewell. It has -- and now life must...
...Waco, embattled FBI Director William Sessions, after touring the charred compound, received a standing ovation from the locals. The big news was the discovery that the heads of many of the Waco corpses had bullet holes in them; including leader David Koresh's. A girl selling T shirts nearby didn't believe it: "I think ((Koresh)) got out somehow . . . I think he'll show up in two or three years...
...Koresh or someone like him. (See related story on page...