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Offered-up to a cult leader by her own parents when she was just a child a local woman who escaped that nightmare is talking to FOX 29. The Camden County woman is also ready to talk in court against the very man who she says raped her and many others.
As FOX 29’s Jeff Cole reports that self-proclaimed pastor was on the U.S. Marshals Most Wanted List and they tracked him to a beach in Brazil just days ago. Victor Barnard sits in a jail in Brazil awaiting his return to the United States. When he hits U.S. soil, he’ll face dozen of counts of child molestation.
“I started to cry immediately. I felt like I was going to faint,” Lindsay Tornambe said.
The news nearly floored 28-year-old Lindsay Tornambe. Living in Harleysville, Pa. as a young girl, she moved to Minnesota with her parents to become followers of Barnard’s church–River Road Fellowship. She says the 53-year-old cult leader convinced her parents and others to give their first-born females to the church.
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