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Sarah Moore, formerly known as Sarah Hamilton-Byrne (born 8 July 1969) is an Australian writer who spent her childhood in The Family, a new religious movement run by Anne Hamilton-Byrne, her adoptive mother. She was instrumental in getting the group investigated by the police in Victoria, Australia and later wrote a book about her experiences in The Family. ==Early life and education== Moore's biological mother was an unmarried teenager who put her daughter up for adoption in 1969. Moore was adopted by Anne Hamilton-Byrne, a charismatic yoga teacher who gathered a number of followers around her who believed that she was the incarnation of Christ. Moore was meant to be the "inheritors of the earth" after a holocaust took place.〔Unseen Unheard Unknown, Sarah Hamilton-Byrne (Penguin) 1995, p.1〕 Anne Hamilton-Byrne had many followers who worked in the medical and nursing professions, and who manipulated the adoption process so that fourteen children were adopted by her. These children—including Moore—were told that Anne Hamilton-Byrne was their biological mother. Along with the other adopted children, Moore was brought up in houses that were owned by Anne Hamilton-Byrne, who had several properties in various countries (Moore later estimated that Anne Hamilton-Byrne might have been worth $150 million). Moore spent the first 4–5 years of her life at a house called Winberra, in the Dandenong Ranges, east of Melbourne, Victoria. After that, she was moved to Kai Lama, a group house at Lake Eildon, also in Victoria. Life for the children at Kai Lama was unremittingly strict and even brutal. Anne Hamilton-Byrne herself was usually not there, so the children were supervised by women from The Family who were known as Aunties. These women disciplined the children by inflicting severe beatings for the most trivial reasons or no reason at all.〔Unseen Unheard Unknown, pp.46–64〕 Another common disciplinary measure was food deprivation. The children lived in fear and were deprived of all love and affection. Despite this, they always hoped for some show of affection from Anne Hamilton-Byrne, who they believed was their mother, and who visited Kai Lama from time to time. They were also led to believe that the world outside was an evil and dangerous place, and that they would end up in the gutter (or worse) if they ever left The Family. Another common form of discipline was the administration of prescription drugs that were obtained by the followers in the medical and nursing professions. These drugs were routinely used to pacify the children. When they were older, they could also be forced to take the hallucinogenic drug LSD as a kind of religious ritual. This was known as "going-through", and was supposed to promote self-awareness, helping the person to let go of blocks. Moore was forced to "go-through" in 1984, when she was 15. The experience took place at a property owned by The Family in England, and went on for some days because she was given repeated doses of the drug. She found it a traumatic experience and was later convinced that she had suffered lasting damage from the drug.〔Unseen Unheard Unknown, pp.139–150〕 As Moore grew up, she became more assertive and began arguing with those who supervised the children, including Hamilton-Byrne herself. After arguing once too often, she was expelled from The Family in 1987, at the age of 17. She was then taken in by a family she had met. After a time, she was introduced to a private investigator, known only as Helen D, who had been investigating The Family for several years. From Helen D, Moore learnt that Anne Hamilton-Byrne was a fraud and that she herself was not Hamilton-Byrne's daughter at all; she had in fact been adopted.〔Unseen Unheard Unknown, pp.168–169〕 Helen D introduced Moore to two policewomen who won her confidence; this eventually led to a police raid on Kai Lama on Friday 14 August 1987. A number of children were taken into custody, then placed in care, along with Moore. A number of Aunties faced criminal charges and were eventually convicted of fraudulently obtaining money from the Department of Social Security. In 1990, former group solicitor Peter Kibby started co-operating with police and confessed to forging birth records on orders from Hamilton-Byrne. Former auntie Patricia McFarlane gave information to police about adoption scams. Hamilton-Byrne and her husband Bill were overseas at the time; they were extradited from the United States in 1993 and faced criminal charges, but were only convicted of making false statements in regard to the adoption of Moore and other children. They were each fined $5,000. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sarah Moore (The Family)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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