Sarah Moore

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Sarah Moore, formerly known as Sarah Hamilton-Byrne, was a female medical doctor and writer who spent her childhood in The Family, Anne Hamilton-Byrne's latest religious movement led by Anne Hamilton-Byrne, her adoptive mother.

She was instrumental in the investigation of the group by the police in Victoria, Australia.

She later wrote a book about her time in The Family.

Early life and education

In 1969, Moore's biological mother became an unmarried teen who put her daughter up for adoption. Moore was adopted by Anne Hamilton-Byrne, a charismatic yoga instructor who attracted a number of followers around her who believed she was the incarnation of Christ. After a holocaust took place, Moore was supposed to be one of the "inheritors of the earth." Hamilton-Byrne had many followers who worked in medical and nursing fields, as well as one who manipulated the adoption process so that 14 children were adopted by her. These children, including Moore, were told that Hamilton-Byrne was their biological mother.

Moore and the other adopted children were escorted in homes that were owned by Hamilton-Byrne, who owned several properties in various countries (Moore later estimated that Hamilton-Byrne was worth $150 million). Moore lived in the Dandenong Ranges east of Melbourne, Victoria, for the first four to five years of her life. She was then transferred to "Kai Lama," a group house at Lake Eildon also in Victoria.

The children at "Kai Lama" were unashamedly draconian and even brutal. The children were usually not present, so they were supervised by women from The Family who were referred to as "aunties" in Hamilton-Byrne. These women punished the children by inflicting severe beatings for the most trivial reasons or no reason at all. Food deprivation was another common discipline treatment. The children lived in fear and were deprived of all love and affection. Despite this, the two girls always wished for some show of affection from Hamilton-Byrne, who they wished to be their mother and who visited "Kai Lama" from time to time. They were also led to believe that the outside world was an evil and dangerous place, and that they would end up in the gutter or worse if they ever left The Family.

The administration of prescription drugs that were obtained by the followers in the medical and nursing professions was another common type of discipline. The children were normally calmed by these medications. When they were older, they might have been required to take the hallucinogenic drug LSD as a kind of holy ritual. This was marketed as "going through" and was supposed to increase self-awareness by encouraging the individual to remove blocks from their computer. Moore was coerced to "go-through" in 1984, when she was just 15. The event took place at a family owned by The Family in England, and it lasted for several days because she was offered repeated doses of the drug. She found it traumatic and was later found that she had suffered with long-term damage from the drug.

Moore became more assertive and started arguing with those who supervised the children, including Hamilton-Byrne herself. She was banned from The Family in 1987 at the age of 17. She was then taken in by a family she hadn't known. After a time, she was introduced to a private investigator identified only as "Helen D" who had been investigating The Family for many years. Anne Hamilton-Byrne was a fraud, and she herself was not Hamilton-Byrne's daughter at all; she had not been adopted, not Hamilton-Byrne.

Helen D introduced Moore to two policewomen who regained her confidence; this culminated in a police raid on "Kai Lama" on August 14, 1987. A number of children were taken into custody and then placed in care, as well as Moore. A number of the "aunties" were convicted of unlawfully receiving funds from the Department of Social Security, and they were eventually found guilty. Peter Kibby, a former group solicitor, started cooperating with police in 1990 and confessed to forging birth records on Hamilton-Byrne orders. Patricia McFarlane, a former auntie, gave police alert of a baby abuse scam. Hamilton-Byrne and her partner Bill were living in the United States at the time; they were extradited from the United States in 1993 and face felony charges, but only for making inaccurate representations in relation to Moore's adoption. They were each fined $5,000.

Personal life

Moore was in hospital and lost her left leg as a result of what she felt to be mistreatment by hospital workers following a suicide attempt in December 2008. The remainder of her life, she used a wheelchair.

Moore had an emotional reunion with Hamilton-Byrne in August 2009, which was chronicled by the Herald Sun newspaper. After being reunited with her "favourite daughter," Hamilton-Byrne, who was then 87 years old, said she was now "ready to die." At Olinda, Victoria, Hamilton-Byrne's sprawling complex took place. People who accused her of mistreating the children, according to Hamilton-Byrne, are "lying bastards" and she would like to "put them right" but she couldn't. She said she could have sued her opponents but she refused to pursue them but decided against it. Moore said she loved Hamilton-Byrne but had mixed feelings about her, although she remained blamed for the children's abuses. The Aunties were blamed by Hamilton-Byrne. Moore said that this was as far as Hamilton-Byrne would admit to any wrongdoing; otherwise, she was unrepentant. Hamilton-Byrne referred to her as a virtuous and charismatic individual, who believed she had a hand in establishing the faith and collecting the children. Hamilton-Byrne's reward and "delusional reconstruction" for her own childhood were marred by an absent father and a psychotic mother, she thought. Moore said in a 2009 blog post that she had returned to Hamilton-Byrne after going through a process of therapy referred to as the Hoffman Process, after which she felt it was important to forgive.

Moore converted to Buddhism after a meeting with a Buddhist lama who led her to the belief system of Buddhism. This brought her such relief and joy, as well as the understanding that she was no longer burdened by her burden. She found that she now had the support of a teacher/guru (the Buddha), the Dharma (a term often translated as "righteousness"), and the Buddhist community (the right or spiritual path). This new belief system made sense of her life and gave her a sense of what had been missing, particularly where she had gone wrong by taking on too much, both physically and emotionally. She felt that she had regained the psychological and spiritual support she had lost since being thrown out of The Family, by a guru for whom no one could blame.

Moore died of heart disease in May 2016. Fellow survivors from The Family's funeral spoke out on her behalf at her Buddhist-themed funeral.

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Career

Moore wrote Unknown Unheard Unknown, a memoir about her time in The Family; it was published by Penguin in 1995.

She went on to study medicine and became a licensed doctor and spent time in a variety of Melbourne hospitals. She did extensive volunteer service in India and Thailand (where she worked with Karen refugees on the Thai-Burma border), but she also returned to Australia, where she continued her medical work in the Dandenong Ranges.

Moore was charged with fabricating pethidine prescriptions for herself. She escaped a prison term at Ringwood Magistrate's Court in Victoria in July 2005. She was allowed to stay free as long as she demonstrated good conduct for four years and served in public service for four years. Between November 2004 and April 2005, she had pleaded guilty to obtaining pethidine from forged prescriptions. Moore was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Moore later founded Barefoot Basics, a charity that aims to provide health care to indigenous and displaced people in countries such as India. The charity was not allowed to operate for tax-deductible purposes. If she could afford to fly, she did humanitarian work in the United Kingdom.

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