Stern show guest Davida Children of God Princess

Not sure if I am a johnny come lately on this one but I was watching a show about cults yesterday and who do I see being interviewed but one of my favorite Stern show guest, Davida. I knew Davida was a stripper but her being so involved in The Family cult got by me if it was mentioned during her appearances.
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RSS Though that notion infuriates most evangelicals, Lattin points to Berg's own mother, Virginia Brandt Berg, who was one of the first famous radio evangelists. Berg failed in the pulpit early on, spending years on the road as an itinerant minister. But when the tumultuous 1960s rolled in, Berg finally found his voice.

Ricky Rodriguez and Davida Kelley were part of the "second generation" of the Children of God religious sect, now known as The Family International.
(Courtesy Davida Kelley.)"There were these two very strong social forces going on," said Lattin. "There was the countercultural, the youth movement. All these people living on the street, in the road with backpacks, lot of drugs. And there was the beginnings of this evangelical revival in the country."

By the 1970s, Berg's following grew into the tens of thousands. His so-called "law of love" urged young women to win converts to the group by prostituting themselves, something he called "flirty fishing."

Ricky Rodriguez's mother was Karen Zerby, a close confidante of Berg's, and together they anointed Rodriguez "Davidito" -- the future prophet of the sect.


The Second Generation
Other children in the inner circle were given their own roles, including ex-member Davida Kelley, who became the princess to Rodriguez' prince.

"We were both raised and nurtured to be the future leaders of the Family or the End Time prophets, so to speak," Kelley said. "We were programmed to believe that."

"Going way back, I think we could refer to my generation as the second generation and … I would say we were experimental, test-tube kind of babies so to speak," she said.

Kelley says Berg was "obviously very inspired, very possessed and very fanatical, but he was also a pedophile." In fact, provocative adult-child photos and stories lace the pages of group's manual, entitled "The Book of Davidito." And according to Kelley, sexual interaction between adults and children was not just an expectation, it was a commandment.


"At that time, myself or other young girls who were in the Unit at the time as apprentices, so to speak, would be required to crawl into bed and interact with David Berg," said Kelley. "I lived with David Berg from the time I was born till age 13."

When asked if she ever witnessed Ricky being sexually abused, Kelley said "Oh yes, of course … [by] all the adult women. Most of them, at least, in the Unit."

Kelley says she even witnessed Karen Zerby, Rodriguez' mother, abusing him.

In 1986, after a series of official investigations and lawsuits, the Family International officially renounced sexual contact between adults and children.


'A Time Bomb Waiting to Go Off'
In 1994 Berg died, and Zerby took over as leader, and as the second generation grew up, critics says the years in The Family left many scarred.

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