Down the Rabbit Hole, once...

Some people may never know their children are being used by a cult member.  If you are a parent, you child WILL be afraid to tell you.

Cult people use very strong threats against the families of the children they have abused.  They may also expose them to a murder in person to prove their point.

They are likely to tell the child that if they say anything that's not nice about the person they will kill their relatives, and they'll kill a pet if the child has one.  After the pet is dead, they'll keep a trinket.

The collar of the dog that got hit by a car, or a missing animal's paw.  They'll show it to your child when you're not looking and tell them, you don't want this to be them do you?  Children are unusually obedient when their parents are threatened.

In this way they can stand right next to you and you are completely unaware.  Many cults will steal your children if they can, and make something new of them.

Cult people tend to expose children to extremely unusual experiences.  Think of the rabbit's foot, a sign of good luck for regular kids.  They might have a live pet rabbit they share with your children. They'll let your children name it, and consider it their own pet.

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Once the child has developed an attachment to the animal, and comes to visit it on their own, it has become a friend.  Then they'll kill the animal and offer it to the child as food.  They may even force the child to participate in the process of preparing the creature as food, or they may offer it raw.

"Here, have his foot.  You can love that instead.  It's the same thing, plus now we have dinner.  You don't want us to starve to death do you?"


After an event like this, the cult member will introduce your child to other adults.  In the child's mind every adult he meets who is friendly with the cult member obviously agrees with their behavior. The cult member would definitely encourage this type of thinking. The world can become very frightening very quickly.

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At this point they'd probably introduce the child to a few of their actual cult friends.  The child is even more likely then to think that every person they meet is also part of their inner circle.

If they were caught by a non-affiliated adult they would probably just say, "I was just trying to make them a little tougher."  Beyond that, as an adult, you would have no idea what else they had done and said with and to your child.