06-14-2019, 10:26 AM
Survivors who were drugged, abused and bashed as children in the notorious cult The Family are preparing for a legal fight for compensation after the death of its leader Anne Hamilton-Byrne.
Hamilton-Byrne, who considered herself the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, died in a suburban Melbourne nursing home on Thursday aged 97. She had been in palliative care after suffering from dementia since 2007.
Her condition had rendered her unable to face further court action by survivors in the last years of her life. A class action of survivors was listed to proceed to trial in the Supreme Court in August.
Hamilton-Byrne's net worth was estimated at one point to be about $10 million.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victo...51xs7.html
Hamilton-Byrne, who considered herself the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, died in a suburban Melbourne nursing home on Thursday aged 97. She had been in palliative care after suffering from dementia since 2007.
Her condition had rendered her unable to face further court action by survivors in the last years of her life. A class action of survivors was listed to proceed to trial in the Supreme Court in August.
Hamilton-Byrne's net worth was estimated at one point to be about $10 million.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victo...51xs7.html
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.