Just a tease for you....because I luv ya!
"after that, Seed officials sent for his parents in order to begin one of the more extreme treatments for those who are slow to convert. While the entire staff watched, Pat's father obeyed the supervisors' orders. He tried to whip The Seed's credo of love into his teenage son.
A pinched look comes over Pat's face when he talks about the incident. He can remember fighting with his father and suddenly seeing blood on the man's lip. He can still see his mother standing in a crowd of smiling Seed teenagers. She was crying. Pat's father, who even now tells the story over involuntary tears, says that after the public beating he went to the nearest bathroom and vomited."
Notable that this happened in Ft Lauderdale, not in St Petersburg, where I can personally attest to it occuring there on at least two occasions as well, and yes a girl came back to group with a black eye, and yes a song was ordered to cover up the beating one guy was taking by his father in the Morgan yacht warehouse behind group in the big room right behind. I was there, and I was terrified. After he was beaten by his father at the direction of staff, the entire group was told that it could happen to anyone.