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The Cult Dossier · No. 180 · Second Generation / Born In
The Manufactured Family
Anne Hamilton-Byrne's children; the Lake Eildon children
1968 – 1987 · Lake Eildon, Victoria, Australia
XVIII. THE SECOND GENERATION — THE ONES WHO NEVER CHOSE
A syncretic New Age teaching in which Hamilton-Byrne was held to be the reincarnation of Jesus. See 060.
### Who led it
### What it worshipped and taught
### Who was in it
### How it ended, or where it stands
### The dead
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 1968–1975 The group, formed around Hamilton-Byrne in Melbourne in the 1960s, acquires FOURTEEN infants and young children.
- 1970s–1980s THE CHILDREN ARE RAISED AT THE PROPERTY AS THE HAMILTON-BYRNES’ OWN, SEVERAL OF THEM ON FALSIFIED BIRTH REGISTRATIONS. Accounts describe beatings, starvation as punishment, and heavy sedation.
- adolescence LSD IS ADMINISTERED TO SOME OF THE CHILDREN in a ceremony framed as an initiation.
- 14 AUGUST 1987 VICTORIAN AND FEDERAL POLICE RAID THE LAKE EILDON PROPERTY AND REMOVE THE SIX CHILDREN STILL LIVING THERE, AGED BETWEEN TWELVE AND SEVENTEEN. The raid followed a complaint from SARAH, then seventeen, who had left. It is how the outside world learns the group exists.
- JUNE 1993 Hamilton-Byrne and her husband are arrested by the FBI at HURLEYVILLE in the Catskills, New York, and extradited to Australia. They are charged with CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD and CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT PERJURY, over falsely registering three unrelated children as their own triplets.
- 1994 THE CONSPIRACY AND PERJURY CHARGES ARE DROPPED. IN THE COUNTY COURT SHE AND BILL PLEAD GUILTY TO MAKING A FALSE DECLARATION AND ARE FINED $5,000 EACH. That is the entire criminal consequence. NO CONVICTION IS EVER RECORDED AGAINST HER FOR ANYTHING DONE TO THE CHILDREN THEMSELVES.
- 13 JUNE 2019 She dies aged 97 in a Melbourne nursing home, having spent her last years with dementia. Some reports gave her age as 98; she was born on 30 December 1921.
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