[greyfoxx39]

I did read about that account of the family that were serial murderers - one of the women said her daughters were killed because they were handicapped. I would have to find out more about that, but I don’t think that’s the norm.

Unfortunately, we don't KNOW what the norm is for a situation in which one man excercises absolute and total control over a group and there is no one to gainsay him. The closest comparisons I can thing of are the Jonestown suicides and the Waco deaths.

[Judith Anne]

Children of the sect born with fumarase deficiency disease may have died in relatively large numbers. The disease can be severe, or mild, the victims sometimes die early, sometimes later. I would wonder how many died from this genetic disease at that location. Even newborns can be severely affected; or it may not do its damage until the child is older. As far as I know, there is no treatment and it is always fatal, plus it causes severe retardation.

So, who knows?