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00:00 I don't even know where to start.
00:01 Today is my sister's birthday.
00:03 We're not allowed to contact her,
00:05 and we're blocked on absolutely everything.
00:07 We have two daughters.
00:09 We don't just have one.
00:10 All the dancers that she danced with,
00:13 someone else is controlling their lives.
00:15 I don't want to say I was in a cult.
00:17 How did I let myself get sucked into something like that?
00:20 Miranda and I knew that we always wanted dance
00:23 to be a part of our lives.
00:24 California and dancing, it was their big dream.
00:27 Men and women travel to LA with their big dream
00:30 of being on stage and just get wrapped up
00:33 in a lot of things that aren't fair for them.
00:35 7M, an entertainment company founded by Robert Shin,
00:38 who's also the pastor of LA-based Shekinah Church.
00:41 This is a church, but they're also a management company.
00:45 I just felt a little funny about that.
00:47 When he found the dancers, he saw all this opportunity
00:51 to be like a world-famous social media talent manager.
00:55 Social media, it was new, like, man,
00:57 I can do this and get money for my art.
00:59 I want to do this.
01:01 He would always share whenever someone would get a deal.
01:04 All this money, it's all going to Robert.
01:06 It started out fairly innocuous,
01:08 but the control slowly grew.
01:12 I could be in an unsafe environment.
01:14 This is a cult.
01:16 They would say, like, cut off your family
01:17 because you need to work on yourself.
01:19 You have to die to your family in order to save them.
01:21 As a man of God, I wasn't thinking that he would ever
01:24 do anything wrong to me or someone.
01:27 When you raise somebody and all of a sudden
01:29 to see a shell of your daughter,
01:33 I don't know who this person is.
01:35 There were these sleuth accounts popping up.
01:37 Former members were saying people suffered
01:40 in his church for decades.
01:42 I felt so betrayed.
01:44 It was awful.
01:45 I want Robert to never be able to do this ever again.
01:51 Whatever you sow, you're going to reap.
01:54 It's what he teaches, right?
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