‘Holy God, I Killed My Own Son’: Former Cult Leader Jacques Robidoux Recalls Realizing Power Of Mind Control

BRIDGEWATER, Mass. (CBS Boston) – Jacques Robidoux walked into the visitors’ halfway astatine the Old Colony Correctional Center with a polite greeting. “How are you doing?” He was hardly recognizable from the past clip the nationalist saw him.

Back then, helium wasn’t an inmate, helium was a cult leader. He defiantly faced a justice successful 2000, accused of starving his lad to death. “He told different members of his cult to disregard Samuel’s pain,” said a authoritative during his arraignment.

It was successful prison, wherever Robidoux says helium yet faced the truth.

“I fundamentally became a compartmentalized sociopath,” helium said. “Once the realization came that ‘Holy God, I killed my ain son. How did this adjacent happen?’ So past everything begins to start. Everything begins to unravel.”

The kid was astir a twelvemonth aged erstwhile different subordinate of the Attleboro-based sect called “The Body” had a vision. In bid to prevention Samuel and different member’s unborn kid from definite hell, Samuel was not to devour immoderate coagulated food, lone breastmilk. That was thing his parent could not nutrient astatine that point.

“It didn’t instrumentality long, you cognize arsenic I was holding him helium was crying. He was crying due to the fact that helium was hungry,” said Robidoux, visibly emotional. “So arsenic I’m holding him and he’s crying and I’m, I’m crying, past of people the thought comes that good successful bid for maine to fulfill this volition of God, I person to beryllium beardown for my family. I person to beryllium beardown for Samuel,” helium said.

Was determination a limit, wherever helium would person stepped successful and said, this is not right?

“In bid to service God, successful bid to prevention my family, successful bid to prevention my lad who fundamentally was dying, and prevention the kid successful the womb, I had to spell done with this,” helium said.

“He knows present that God was not progressive successful that determination astir Samuel. But astatine the clip helium surely believed it,” said counsellor Judy Pardon.

For years, she and her husband, Bob Pardon, ran a attraction halfway successful Lakeville for radical who flight from cults. When investigators unearthed Samuel’s assemblage secretly buried successful Maine on with a relative who had died astatine childbirth, the tribunal appointed the Pardons impermanent guardians of immoderate of the cult’s different children.

The Pardons judge determination are different groups similar The Body that presently beryllium successful society.

“Absolutely,” said Bob Pardon. “Society has go much destabilized via the pandemic.”

Other members of The Body person dispersed. But from down situation walls, Robidoux is focused connected helping others debar the trap helium says his ain caput got tangled up in.

“That large unraveled shot of yarn,” helium said. “It’s taken rather a fewer years to unravel it, but each clip I do, it’s freeing.”

As helium serves a beingness condemnation for the execution of his son, Robidoux present participates successful virtual radical counseling sessions for different erstwhile cult members.