News - Find related news items in AI's News Database. Overview A strict, pseudo-Christian cult in Attleboro, Massachusets.
Members loosely refer to the group as ''The Body''.
Heavily influenced by Carol Balizet , the group's members reject doctors, schools, and outsiders. The ''Attleboro cult'' gained public attention after the group was named in Boston Globe news reports regarding a baby who died of malnutrition, and the disappearance of another child, believed to also have been buried by the group's members. But philosophical differences caused a rift, and one small faction went on its own to become a tiny self-sufficient church unwilling to recognize laws made or enforced by a secular society. The group of several extended families lived together in a duplex here, following Old Testament scripture and advocating faith healing over modern medicine, viewing themselves as a bastion of biblical faith in an evil world. R.I. Back then, Weeks said, Roland Robidoux and his wife, Georgette, were community-oriented and ''great role models'' and parents to Jacques and their other children.