The family - also called the Santiniketan Park Association and the Great White Brotherhood - is controversial in Australia's New Age group formed in the mid-1960s under the leadership of Anne Hamilton-Byrne (born in 1921). Sect Australian and apparently one of the most cruel - Hamilton-Byrne a great secret almost total over two decades. Hidden in the Melbourne countryside, the motto of the family was "Unseen, unknown, unheard of." The police, acting on the information of two escapees of the child, attacked the cult in 1987. It became apparent that during the years Hamilton-Byrne had gathered 28 children by the adoption of forgeries and "gifts" of Disciples, dress them in identical clothes and whiten their hair platinum. To keep her strange brood under her control, they say she subjected them to vicious blows, starvation and emotional torture. Preaching a hodgepodge of Christianity, Oriental mysticism and apocalyptic prophecy, she would have been forced disciples, including children, to take dangerous amounts of LSD and other hallucinogens as part of the prolonged initiation rites. Once they had presented, she would dictate all aspects of their lives. "There was only one rule: do absolutely everything she said," said David Whitaker, a former survivor of the child. "That included what to think, what to wear, what to eat, total obedience. The children were initiated with enormous doses of relentless LSD 'in journeys that lasted for days. The children were kept in solitary confinement and attended school at Kai Lama, a rural property commonly known as "Uptop", at Taylor Bay on Eildon Lake near the town of Eildon, Victoria. They were told that Anne Hamilton-Byrne was their biological mother, and knew the other adults in the group as "Aunties" and "Uncles." They were denied almost all access to the outside world, and subjected to a discipline that often included severe beatings - often for little or no reason - and starvation diets. Children were often dosed with psychiatric drugs Anatensol, Diazepam, haloperidol, Largactil, Mogadon, Serepax, Stelazine, Tegretol or Tofranil. When they reached adolescence, they were forced to undergo an initiation involving LSD: under the influence of the drug that the child would be left in a dark room, alone. In the 1980s, the police estimated that the fortune of Hamilton-Byrne could be up to $ 50 million. Anne Hamilton-Byrne the mother who headed the Australian sect creeps known as the family, thought she was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Take in children's parents has washed the brain over nearly twenty years. And despite apparently servile on these innocent children, allegations of beatings, starvation and even drugging young boys and girls with the powerful LSD in the 1970s and 80s are still commonplace. These accusations are laid bare in documentary entitled The Family, which even includes the cooling accounts of Hamilton-Byrne itself. And when confronted why she imprisoned 28 children over her twenty-year reign, she simply says, "I love children." - Documentary The Family : 
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