LILIA Tarawa grew up in a fundamentalist cult where women had to submit to men. But she eventually broke free. The New Zealander grew up in the repressive, fundamentalist cult of Gloriavale Christian ...

A young woman has revealed what it was like to grow up in an oppressive cult run by her sex offender grandfather. Lilia Tarawa, a 26-year-old from New Zealand, was raised in the fundamentalist ...

When New Zealand woman Lilia Tarawa was a teenager, she ran away from home - but this wasn't your ordinary rebellious kid story. Tarawa was running away from a secretive, repressive cult - the ...

A powerful and revealing book detailing life in the repressive Gloriavale commune has been released by the granddaughter of founder Neville "Hopeful Christian" Cooper. Lilia Tarawa has written ...

A WOMAN who fled a cult run by her warped grandad has told how young girls were forced into sexual slavery after marrying older men. Lilia Tarawa, 31, said everyone in the Gloriavale commune in New ...

The second series of dystopian horror story The Handmaid's Tale begins on Channel 4 tonight. But could the fictional Gilead happen in real life? This is the story of one woman who grew up in a ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Lilia Tarawa was born and raised in the Gloriavale Christian community on New Zealand's South Island, a ...

Former Gloriavale member Jeremy Max, who died in a motorcycle crash in Milford, was uninsured and completely cut off from the reclusive religious sect, according to his cousin who is also a former ...