Cult Member Trained to Obey, Punished for Complying | Profiling Evil

The story of Moretta Johnson raises a difficult question: Can someone be both a victim and a perpetrator? Johnson, a child bride of FLDS cult leader Samuel Bateman, was sentenced for her role in the abduction of children from state custody. But at just 19, was she truly responsible for her actions—or was she simply following the only reality she had ever known? This case forces us to examine the disturbing ways cults shape their followers, turning the abused into abusers. How should the justi...