She managed to escape 14 years before her dad died.
A trans woman spoke for the first time about how she escaped from a sinister cult led by her father that kidnapped and raped other members.
This is written by nypost.com.
42 year old Yaya DeCloud was born male on December 14, 1981. She was forced to live in a compound of 30 people known as the “DeCloud family”, who rarely went outside.
Her father, 73-year-old Nelson DeCloud, was a former police officer and spiritual leader of a group he used to satisfy his own sexual needs. He died at Southeast Correctional Center in Missouri in 2014 while serving a 220-year sentence for kidnapping, false imprisonment, rape and forcible sodomy. Yaya claims her father used the “Bible to manipulate society” and even did so behind bars until she escaped in December 2000.
Yaya, from Chicago, Illinois, USA, spoke for the first time about living in a cult where she experienced physical and emotional abuse: “There were 30 of us living in a commune and we never went outside the community. We had our own church service, and we never left the territory. My father controlled everything, we considered him an interpreter from God, everything he said or did came from God. My dad was a very temperamental person, he was very stern. I am sure that he loved us. , but if we did something wrong, it could explode.”
< p>Yaya said life in the commune was “hard” and “harsh” but that was all she and her family knew. She said: “My dad always wanted 'The Family' to look perfect. I heard a lot of terrible things that my dad may have done. He was controlling and used the Bible to manipulate and control us. But here's the thing, I really I think he believed what he said. He grew up Southern Baptist, and my grandfather was a preacher in Kansas City.”
Yaya and her siblings attended school in the commune and studied mathematics and English like any other child: “We had a curriculum, we went to school during the day, and my sisters were teachers. We studied the regular curriculum – mathematics, English and science.”
After Nelson was jailed in 1993 for kidnapping, false imprisonment, rape and forcible sodomy, Yaya claims he still controlled the family from prison, sending letters and talking on the phone to her mother and grandmother.
“My dad made a code letter for pagers so we could communicate with each other and warn of danger. We didn't have cell phones back then, and dad could communicate with grandma in a way that no one else could track us. We hid until I ran away in 2000, this was another main reason why we left, we were not allowed to have friends,” the woman recalled.
In December 2000, Yaya and her two sisters collected $40 from their $5 weekly allowance and left the family camp: “My sister asked one of her friends in California to find us a hotel in Jefferson City, Missouri. Everyone at camp slept and we wrote letters to our family members to tell them that we were very sorry and that we had to leave. I remember that night very well, the roads were slippery and we kept slipping and falling. There was a taxi waiting for us to take us to. hotel”.
When her father died in 2014, Yaya was able to visit him in prison to say goodbye and tell him that she still loved him. She said: “When it came down to it, he was my dad and I still loved him. All his children were there except one. When we all got there, we said goodbye, stood in a circle and prayed for him one last time.” . We all went to eat, and then went in different directions.”
After the death of her father and the breakdown of her marriage, Yaya came out as transgender in 2019 and is now living a happy life: “I didn’t start living as a woman until 2019, it was something that was always in me . I realized that I was transgender when I was 13-14 years old, but it was something that I never realized.
Recall that the surviving victim of the perverted cult “Children of God” talked about mass orgies and pedophilia It is believed that about 15,000 people were. “Children of God” during the heyday of the cult, which exerted influence throughout the world and attracted people under the guise of love and Jesus.
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