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Employing Trafficking Laws to Capture Elusive Leaders of Destructive Cults Paper Number 15-0030, November 9, 2015 Robin Boyle-Laisure E-mail Comments to: boyler@stjohns.edu St. John’s University School of Law Queens, NY 11439 This paper can be downloaded without charge from The Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2690453. Electronic copy available at: 

 Employing Trafficking Laws to Capture Elusive Leaders of Destructive Cults I. Cults−An Overview ....................................................... 209 A. The Case of Elissa Wall Against FLDS ................. 210 B. Four Processes of Indoctrination ............................ 213 1. Thought Control CULTIC STUD.J. 1−14 (2000); Carmen Almendros et al., Former Members’ Perceptions of Cult Involvement 6 CULTIC STUD. REV. 1−20 (2007); Stephen A. Kent, House of Judah, the Northeast Kingdom Community, and the Jonestown Problem: Downplaying Child Physical Abuses and Ignoring Serious Evidence 1 INT’L J. CULTIC STUD. 27−48 (2010); Carmen Almendros et al., Reasons for Leaving: Psychological Abuse and Distress Reported by Former Members of Cultic Groups 8 CULTIC STUD. REV. 111−38 (2009). 8 Landa, supra note 5, at 591. 9 See generally id.