UPDATE:: Maoist cult leader jailed for 23 years as 'slave' daughter goes publicA violent Maoist cult leader sexually abused his brainwashed female followers and imprisoned his own daughter in homes across south London for over 30 years, British prosecutors said on Thursday.
But Morgan-Davies says she has forgiven her father and would like to be reconciled with him some day. “Nelson Mandela said: ‘If you leave the prison with hatred and anger and bitterness, then you are still in prison,’” she said.
Her comments came as Judge Deborah Taylor told the India-born communist he was guilty of “grave and serious crimes committed over a long period and you have no remorse whatsoever”.
She revealed he had been diagnosed by a psychiatrist as having a narcissistic personality disorder and had caused significant psychological harm to his daughter.
The judge told Balakrishnan that he had evolved into “a largely housebound demagogue or dictator” who beat and humiliated his followers. “You were ruthless in your exploitation of them,” Taylor said.
His sexual abuse and rape of two women had had profound effects on their lives, Taylor said, praising his rape victims for their great courage in confronting the past by testifying against him.
She said he told his daughter that if she left the collective “she would be killed by fascist death squads or would spontaneously combust”, while in her adulthood “you deprived her of friendship and love”.
Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, used fear, sexual degradation and physical and mental violence to keep the women under his control, turning his commune based on Communist teachings into his own personal cult, London's Southwark Crown Court was told.
Even his own daughter, who was born to one of the women in the collective, was bullied and beaten, barely allowed to leave the house, never permitted to go to school, play with friends or see a doctor, said prosecutor Rosina Cottage.
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"Each woman lived a life of violence, fear, isolation and confinement. They were forced into sexual acts over which they had no choice and were deliberately degrading and humiliating. He seemed to exult in his power over them."
Balakrishnan was the head of a Communist group in the 1970s called the Worker's League in south London, a charismatic and energetic speaker who attracted students and followers with his plan for world revolution and to overthrow what he saw as Britain's fascist state.
Cottage said he made himself its Party Secretary and the collective's members were only allowed to recognise the authority of Balakrishnan, or Bala as he was known, and Chairman Mao Zedong, the founder of modern China.
UK Maoist Cult Leader Raped Followers, Enslaved Daughter, Court Told
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