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Duggar 'cult' encouraged abuse, ex-members say:
'We were taught our bodies don't belong to us'
the fundamentalist sect was responsible for "a lot of abuse."
arrested last month on child pornography charges, years after allegations of molesting his sisters and another girl when he was a teenager, but
others involved in the faith-based Advanced Training Ins ute say they're not surprised,
the whole environment set him up for success in his disgustingness."
​ a staffer sexually assaulted her at one of the centers, which were set up by organization founder Bill Gothard, when she was 17 years old.
"We were taught our bodies don't belong to us," said Smith, now 35.
"They belong to God, and so in that realm, anything that happens, God wants it to happen."
"If we had been assaulted, we had to confess what we did that brought the assault on us,"
leaders to place responsibility for sexual assault on victims for "defrauding" their abuser through "immodest dress, indecent exposure, being out from protection of our parents,
The group taught children that disobeying their parents carried lifelong risks, which made every decision crippling.
"Every decision we encounter in life was basically a heaven-or- decision,"
"My sense of bodily autonomy is still really messed up," Smith said.
"To this day, there's people like me who aren't totally convinced we were abused. But we were."
https://www.rawstory.com/duggar-advanced-training-ins ute
