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She's the embodiment of evil. A woman who's terrible deeds have destroyed many lives. For years, Anne Hamilton-Byrne ran a bizarre cult known as The Family. But, this was no ordinary family. Children stolen at birth ... brainwashed ... beaten …even given mind-altering drugs like LSD. The list of abuses at her isolated retreat outside Melbourne goes on. It was a true house of horrors. Throughout it all, Hamilton-Byrne was helped by a group of unquestioning followers, including a sinister inner-circle of women known as the Aunties. To these disciples she was the re-incarnation of Jesus Christ. Her word gospel. Hamilton-Byrne has spent years dodging the truth about what went on inside The Family but, this week, for the first time, she talks to Karl Stefanovic.