José Pezoa, 20, Brazil.
(Second-generation member of the Family International.)

My name is José Pezoa, I’m 20 years old, I’m married and have a 1-year-old son. I’m currently living in Brazil where we have wonderful ministries and feel fulfilled and supported.

Well, to start, I was born and raised in “The Family.” As remembering my childhood all I can think about is my parent’s giving me the best school, friends, moral support, all the help I could have and everything I needed, they were there for me. What could I want more than a Heavenly Home?

When I was about 7 my dad and I moved to Rosario-Argentina, and not long after our home was raided by cops and authorities of the city.

They turned everything upside-down and stayed at our house 24/7 for the next week, coming and going whenever they wanted. We had reporters at our doorstep all the time, we couldn’t even go outside our house in peace without having all those reporters taking pictures, asking questions etc. We didn’t have any privacy!

Talk about abuse! Sometimes you had to strip in the middle of the night to have someone check you to see if you were abused, if any that was more abused than anything I received in my life!

A short while later my mom’s home in Buenos Aires was raided too, where my brother and sister, along with the rest of the kids of the home were put into a juvenile detention center for “cons,” and all the adults into jail (the worst jail in B.A).

The funny thing was that the detractors were saying that the Family was abusing their kids, emotionally, physically, blah, blah, blah, then they get us, kids, and put us in a place that’s just for juvenile convicts. Coming from a sweet, loving home, where everybody cares for you , and going to a institution, full of criminals who just love to bully Christian kids… and they say it’s cause they care? BULL… If they really cared about abuse kids, look at your own society! It’s full of kids that are actually being abused the way they say Family kids are.

It’s kind of stupid to take kids from homes that were proven a safe place for a kid to be raised. So why don’t you move on and open some sort of organization and help the kids that really need help, and stop bothering us with that same old line, cause it’s old school, outdated. You have no proof! And if you say Ricky is your proof, you’re wrong! Cause violence and killing is against our religion and he was brought up and taught all his life to love and care for his neighbors, not kill them. When Ricky got in contact with you guys, he became aggressive, violent and threatening, until he actually murdered an innocent person. And guess who was supporting him, giving him all this “excellent” counsel? You guys! The ones who accuse us of these very things! So that makes you wonder, is it us, or you??? In the Family he was loving, sweet, and a gentleman, as some people said. Now around you… saying all this junk, he became an assassin! That’s pretty bad, and the worst is that you guys were promoting it, and when he did, you cheered him for it! How can you be so cold and heartless to go on saying all these things. And I think some of them are starting to see what their words did and the effect they had on Ricky that they were trying to blame on us. Yeah right!

So you see, if they did this to him, imagine all the kids they’re trying to get out of the Family, what are they going to offer? Violence, promoting crime, and hate?

I wouldn’t trade what I have for anything in the world, and wouldn’t want my son to be in their hands!

Who are the real abusers, the ones who do everything they say we do, the hypocrites and full of BULL…?

Their true identity is coming out and if you don’t watch out you’re going to get caught in your own web of lies!

So, MOVE ON! Get a hobby! And if you want to help poor, innocent, victim kids, go for it! Just find the ones who really need help somewhere else! Cause you won’t find them here, and never will!!!