Unable to Leave

Description:

Cults that prevent members from leaving.

Cults:

Adidam (Adi Da) - A New Age sect that practiced sexual experimentation and received several allegations of abuse (1972 - present)
Agape Ministries - A doomsday cult which planned to trap members on an island and reportedly intended to kill disobedient followers (1980s - 2010s)
Art of Living Foundation
The Brethren (Jim Roberts Group) - A very secretive sect of nomadic Christians, who eat out of dumpsters and forbid laughing and playing (1971 - present)
Christian Assemblies International cult - A fundamentalist church that was caught running a secret homosexual sex ring
Christian Gospel Mission (Providence) - An international cult that has tricked several hundred women into having sex with the leader in exchange for salvation (1980 - present)
The Family - An Australian sect that illegally took 14 children and severely abused them for several years (1964 - present)
Hannah Frisby
Knights of the Crystal Blade
New Light of God (Nueva Luz de Dios)
Plymouth Brethren Christian Church (Exclusive Brethren)
Twelve Tribes Communities
The Way International
Word of Faith Fellowship - A church in which the leader controls every aspect of member's lives and members are ritualistically abused as a form of exorcism (1979 - present)
The Work (Brother Julius) - A wealthy cult that chopped the leader into pieces, believing it was the will of God