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AIRED: 3/30/05

Police and prosecutors go after a fanatical cult leader who encourages sex with children among her followers.

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definitely ripped from the headlines. its about a cult where the children are made to have sex with each other and the adults. The mother ends up on trial for the son's suicide.moreless

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By ashakitty, Jun 06, 2010

If you want to understand this episode, The Cult in RL continues to exist and is called "Children of God". hard to watch. there is nothing fictional here.

MSNBC did a special on the suicides that are "attributed" to having been in this cult...INCLUDING RIVER PHOENIX. i had no idea that he was raised in this cult. HOW can they still have a live functioning website UP on the web???

I don't get it. If this is such a well know problem cult, why have they not been stopped. why is it so out there that anyone can still find them on the web and hook up with them...

http://www.thefamily.org/about/

In real life, the son did kill himself. It's so weird when tv and reality get so closely entwined.moreless
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S. Epatha Merkerson	Lt. Anita Van Buren
Sam Waterston	Exec. A.D.A. Jack McCoy
Jesse L. Martin	Det. Ed Green
Dennis Farina	Det. Joe Fontana
Annie Parisse	A.D.A. Alexandra Borgia
Fred Dalton Thompson	D.A. Arthur Branch

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Austin Lysy	Richard Ranson	Guest Star
David Thornton	Defense Attorney Lionel Granger	Guest Star
Marisa Ryan	Stacey Ranson	Guest Star
Fran Lebowitz	(Arraignment) Judge Janice Goldberg	Recurring Role
Connie Winston	Judge Shirley Taylor	Recurring Role
Selenis Leyva	Det. Rivera	Recurring Role

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TRIVIA (1)
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- When A.D.A Borgia is talking to the Children of the Divine's lawyer, he pays for some items at a stall and walks off without taking his change.
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QUOTES (4)
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- (During arraignment.)
  Judge Goldberg: You've convinced me, Miss Borgia.
  Alexandra Borgia: Thank you, Your Honor.
  Judge Goldberg: Bail is set at two million dollars.
  Alexandra Borgia: Your Honor...
  Judge Goldberg: (interrupts) Defendant will surrender her passport.
  Lionel Granger: Your Honor!
  Judge Goldberg: Happy? No? Good. (hits the gavel)
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- (Discussing Sunshine's sex allegations.)
  Lorraine Shelby: My daughter is a very disturbed young woman.
  Alex Borgia: And your son is a murder and a would-be suicide.
  Lorraine Shelby: Your point?
  Alex Borgia: Your revolutionary parenting techniques seem to have fallen a little short of the mark.
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- Richard Ranson: Do you know how many suicides there have been among the children who grew up in this abomination? How many drug overdoses? And that's not even counting the alcoholics, the addicts . . . the walking wounded and the living dead.
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- Joe Fontana "Sunshine"? This whole thing is starting to sound like a bad acid flashback from the sixties.
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- Alexandra Borgia: Mother Shelby. What a performance.
  Jack McCoy: Smile, and smile, and be a villain.
  This is a reference to Shakespeare's play Hamlet. It is spoken by Hamlet to his father's ghost about how his murderer pretends to be innocent. The actual quote is:
  O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
  My tables, my tables,-meet it is I set it down!
  That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain!
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- This episode appears to be ripped from the headlines of the case involving Ricky "Davidito" Rodriguez and the Children of God.
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