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00:00My perception of the outside world was that it was a very dangerous, destitute, evil place.
00:12In Gloriaville, it's protected.
00:17We are the chosen ones.
00:19We are the people of God.
00:24We were told, this is what we're protecting you from.
00:27What you're taking out of this evil, wicked world.
00:32Cross this bridge and you've lost your soul.
00:35And that's the psychological prison.
00:39You don't join a cult.
00:43You get recruited.
00:46You have to see the New Zealand West Coast to believe it.
00:49Dense bush, steep, steep mountains.
00:53No one for bloody miles.
00:56This would be one of the worst ages for sin.
01:05The women are there to serve the men.
01:07Work, have babies.
01:09Looking back, knowing what I know, yes, we were slaves.
01:15If you control the wife, you control the husband.
01:17If you control both of them, then you've got the whole family.
01:20The physical abuse, the psychological, sexual, the emotional, the spiritual abuse.
01:26I don't want those sort of things happening to my kids.
01:29She's not safe here.
01:36This is the opportunity in history to get it right.
01:40I'm gonna pack and cheer. Let's go to foreign. Stay safe.
01:43Let's go. Let's go.
01:46You gotta go down fighting.
01:48You don't have a family anymore!
01:50These are people coming out like refugees.
01:53All this abuse, there's just so much of it makes me feel sad.
01:56Come here. Come here.
01:57Hide the camera now.
01:59If no one does anything, these people aren't ever gonna get free.
02:02Remember those kids and go and do the right thing.
02:11To actually escape physically just feels impossible,
02:16but to escape psychologically, it actually is impossible.