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The victims pursuing the case against 75-year-old Aravindan Balakrishnan have accused him of physically and sexually abusing them at the south London commune over a period of some 30 years. The accused faces 16 offences including rape, indecent assault, actual bodily harm, cruelty to a person under 16 and false imprisonment. However, Mr. Balakrishnan denies all the aforementioned charges.
During the court proceedings at the second day of trial, prosecutor Rosina Cottage highlighted that the defendant controlled all aspects of his daughter’s life from birth and that she was hidden from the world. Ms Cottage alleged that they were not allowed to go to school, make friends, and go to a doctor or a dentist. She told the court that “it doesn’t have to be by lock and key. It doesn’t have to be ‘chained up’,” adding that “over time, the psychological and mental control was so strong over her that she could not exercise any independent choice at all.” In addition to that, Ms Cottage claimed that Mr Balakrishnan declared he was an “all-powerful and all-seeing” leader, acting on behalf of the international proletariat in the fight against what he called the “fascist bourgeoisie”.
The two women, who claim to have managed to “escape”the “cult,” have accused Mr Balakrishnan of beating them, rape, sexual assault and of sexual deprivation. According to Ms Cottage, “they stayed in the collective too frightened to leave and hating to stay,” adding that “they were forced into sexual acts over which they had no choice and which were deliberately degrading and humiliating. He seemed to exult in his power over them.”
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