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Outlook: Exposing Nxivm: Bringing down a destructive cult, part 2

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04/07/2023 GMT

Exposing Nxivm: Bringing down a destructive cult, part 2

BBC World Service - Outlook, Exposing Nxivm: Bringing down a destructive cult, part 2

Catherine and India Oxenberg face Nxivm cult leader Keith Raniere in court

Catherine and India Oxenberg face Nxivm cult leader Keith Raniere in court; and how a car salesman became a cult expert – the perilous world of cult deprogrammer Rick Alan Ross.

After years of grooming and indoctrination in the dangerous cult Nxivm, India Oxenberg slowly begins to heal. Eventually she and her mother Catherine face the cult leader Keith Raniere in court. 

And, how a car salesman became a cult expert. Rick Alan Ross was working in a car salvage yard when his grandmother’s Jewish nursing home was secretly infiltrated by a Christian group that tried to convert her. Rick started investigating, which lead him to a career as a world-renowned cult intervention specialist, or cult deprogrammer. Now, he helps people leave controversial groups or destructive cults like Nxivm. It’s work that can be demanding, problematic and perilous – especially if interventions don't go to plan.

A version of these interviews was first broadcast in June 2021.

Presenter: Saskia Edwards
Producer: Maryam Maruf
Sound design: Joel Cox

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(Photo: Catherine and India Oxenberg. Credit: Getty Images)

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