Transcripts for CNN Escape From Jonestown 20150628 01:16:00

CNN Escape From Jonestown June 28, 2015 01:16:00

with the church, then you would be in trouble for that. >> trouble at jim jones' wednesday night meetings. he called them catharsis, the purging of evil. >> so i was scared to do anything wrong because i was scared i was going to be called up and be beaten. >> leslie wilson was 13 when she first encountered the peoples temple and the hold it had on members. >> what happened in catharsis? >> if you were doing something incorrectly, which nine times out of ten someone would find something you did incorrectly, you would be called to the floor and disciplined. >> how? >> either by a paddle or being spanked. >> you were hit? >> uh-huh. >> in front of the whole church? >> oh, yes. >> grown people? >> oh, yes. >> spanked? >> yes. >> who did the spanking? >> whoever he deemed to do it. >> her mother joined the peoples temple as a haven where leslie's sister michelle on the right could get help for her drug problem.

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