Reunited family faces media glare after rescuing children from religious cult

[Ian David]

Les Kennedy
May 4, 2007 - 8:34PM

Found after missing for six weeks in a custody dispute between their parents, the three Yelland-Robertson children touched down in Sydney at 12.40pm to the glare of more media cameras.

"I'm tired," nine-year-old Matilda said in a frail exhausted voice as her mother, Philippa Yelland, ushered her, her sister Bokkie, 10, and her brother Barney, 7, through the domestic terminal of Sydney Airport.

Travelling from Launceston, Tasmania, with them was Sydney-based Reverend David Milliken, a Uniting Church minister. He was instrumental in exposing the fringe religious sect The Family, known as the Children of God, before police broke it up a decade ago.

Reverend Milliken emerged first from the aircraft and declined to answer questions as to why he was with the mother and kids. He has been employed by Channel Seven's Today Tonight program as an authority on cults and on deprogramming former sect members.

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[zanne]

1. Rev. Milliken should speak at the RNC convention....

Maybe he could barricade the exits and keep them all there until they're deprogrammed.