so this just happened … This was the cult that JA was https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-48632887in …
Australian cult leader Anne Hamilton-Byrne has died in Melbourne at the age of 98.
Her cult, The Family, was accused of imprisoning and brainwashing children in the 1970s and 80s.
Hamilton-Byrne thought she was a reincarnation of Jesus Christ and blended drug-taking with mysticism and Christianity.
For most of the accusations against her she never faced trial and suffered from dementia in her later years.