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Flor Edwards grew up in a sex cult - 15 June 2018
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![EXCLUSIVE: Dressed head to toe in black and wielding broomsticks like guns, a band of assailants in helmets burst through the doors shouting and screaming like terrorists. As instructed, 5-year-old Flor Edwards hid under the stairs with the other children before the invaders hunted them down and pretended to shoot them dead. After remaining still for a few minutes, the kids rose, trancelike, from the floor — lifting their arms as they mimed flying up to meet Jesus at heaven’s gates. “[The drill] was to prepare us for the apocalypse,” Edwards, now 36, told The Post. The routine “practice raids” were staged by adults in the notorious Children of God sect, of which her family were members, living in a compound hidden behind an 8-foot-tall fence in remote Thailand. “I was terrified,” she recalled. Now a teacher at a community college, Edwards left the scandal-ridden doomsday cult in her early teens and has written about her unconventional childhood in the memoir “Apocalypse Child: A Life in End Times” (Turner Publishing). 14 Jun 2018 Pictured: Flor Edwards. Photo credit: John Chapple/MEGA TheMegaAgency.com +1 888 505 6342](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I00005v8nSQYHn38/fit=250x250/fill=/g=G0000ZFYoUtMv9qE/I00005v8nSQYHn38.jpg)
![EXCLUSIVE: Dressed head to toe in black and wielding broomsticks like guns, a band of assailants in helmets burst through the doors shouting and screaming like terrorists. As instructed, 5-year-old Flor Edwards hid under the stairs with the other children before the invaders hunted them down and pretended to shoot them dead. After remaining still for a few minutes, the kids rose, trancelike, from the floor — lifting their arms as they mimed flying up to meet Jesus at heaven’s gates. “[The drill] was to prepare us for the apocalypse,” Edwards, now 36, told The Post. The routine “practice raids” were staged by adults in the notorious Children of God sect, of which her family were members, living in a compound hidden behind an 8-foot-tall fence in remote Thailand. “I was terrified,” she recalled. Now a teacher at a community college, Edwards left the scandal-ridden doomsday cult in her early teens and has written about her unconventional childhood in the memoir “Apocalypse Child: A Life in End Times” (Turner Publishing). 14 Jun 2018 Pictured: Flor Edwards. Photo credit: John Chapple/MEGA TheMegaAgency.com +1 888 505 6342](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I00005uCFMEmE66Q/fit=250x250/fill=/g=G0000ZFYoUtMv9qE/I00005uCFMEmE66Q.jpg)
![EXCLUSIVE: Dressed head to toe in black and wielding broomsticks like guns, a band of assailants in helmets burst through the doors shouting and screaming like terrorists. As instructed, 5-year-old Flor Edwards hid under the stairs with the other children before the invaders hunted them down and pretended to shoot them dead. After remaining still for a few minutes, the kids rose, trancelike, from the floor — lifting their arms as they mimed flying up to meet Jesus at heaven’s gates. “[The drill] was to prepare us for the apocalypse,” Edwards, now 36, told The Post. The routine “practice raids” were staged by adults in the notorious Children of God sect, of which her family were members, living in a compound hidden behind an 8-foot-tall fence in remote Thailand. “I was terrified,” she recalled. Now a teacher at a community college, Edwards left the scandal-ridden doomsday cult in her early teens and has written about her unconventional childhood in the memoir “Apocalypse Child: A Life in End Times” (Turner Publishing). 14 Jun 2018 Pictured: Flor Edwards. Photo credit: John Chapple/MEGA TheMegaAgency.com +1 888 505 6342](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000_DTWv8QK6Pw/fit=250x250/fill=/g=G0000ZFYoUtMv9qE/I0000_DTWv8QK6Pw.jpg)
