CCChat-Magazine_Issue-27-Survivors-Speak

that what he was part of was a
destructive extremist radical cult.
I couldn’t believe that this person is
already seeing it and I can’t help but
think this is because of this dialogue
that we’re having and people are
finally seeing that this is not just ‘over
there’ with the crazy religious people,
this is happening all over. It’s not
going to be an easy road but it would
be great to do it federally, you know,
and have the federal law that is around
coercive control and emotional abuse
and expanding on the domestic
violence aspect of the laws that are
already there and really
educating. There's different groups
that we can go into, there's a group
that’s in every city, it’s basically a local
human trafficking task force it’s called
Citizen Academy and it’s government
funded and so I’m hopefully going to
reach out to them and start educating
these government task forces who
don’t really know, who have only seen
human trafficking and these kind of
groups on a small scale or just a
certain subset.
They human traffic children and how
they do it is so subtle and how do these
groups recruit people? That’s where I
think the education really needs to
come in. What does that recruitment
process look like? Who are they
targeting? It’s the same mentally as a
gang mentality, gangs do it too, so they
can learn that this is the recruitment
process and they can put it in every
situation, relationships, cults, gangs,
extremist groups and all of that. At the
end of the day it’s just educating and
continuing the dialogue, especially
with law enforcement. Morgan: Just
tagging on to tearing down that false
narrative that when people get pulled
into these groups it’s because people
are being snatched off the streets, like
this big kind of thing but it’s far more
insidious than that. It’s all about the
gradual process, it’s all about reeling
people in.
Min: Tabby, you’re the founder of
Freedom Train Project, can you tell me
a little bit more about it?
Tabby: I’m still getting it on track but
Freedom Train Project is a victim
advocacy organisation where we help
people, provide resources or connect
them with the resources they need.
Our focus is people who are in a cult
who have not been trafficked or people
in a domestic violence relationship,
because that is a complete hole in our
society. We do have specialists in
domestic violence and trafficking but
nothing in that ‘in-between’ area to
connect them with a social worker,
help get them into housing or get them
clothes. These are all things that might
prevent someone from leaving a cult or
these coercive relationships because
they don’t want to be alone. It’s kind of
just breaking away barriers for reasons
for why they stay.
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