The Family, also called the Great White Brotherhood, was an Australian cult that imprisoned 14 children from 1972 until 1987, when the children were freed in a police raid, according to The Sydney Morning Herald. Per The Guardian, the children were reportedly stolen or adopted from brainwashed parents, and they reported being drugged with LSD, beaten, and starved during their time with The Family.

Cult leader Anne Hamilton-Byrne and her husband, co-founder Bill Hamilton-Byrne, were charged $5,000 fines for falsifying a statutory declaration, but that was the only punishment investigators were able to impose on the couple.

“She left a trail of broken lives, ruined people and the one good thing I’ve seen is that the former children who were victims of some horrible things have moved on with their lives and they’re good people,” former Victoria Police detective Lex De Man told The Guardian after Anne died in 2019 at 98 years old.