Roch Theriault was born on May 16th, 1947 in Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. He was raised in Thetford Mines. In the early 1970’s, Theriault used his charisma to start convincing a group of people to leave their jobs and homes behind to join him in a religious movement. His goal was to form a group where people could listen to his speeches, live in equality, sell baked goods, and be free of sin. On paper, this seems like a good idea, but we all know what happens in cults when people get too much power. Shortly after the cult’s formation, Theriault began to move away from a motivational leader and started to be an outright totalitarian leader. The Ant Hill Kids ended up becoming a place on a mountainside where people had legs broken with sledgehammers, amateur and unnecessary surgeries were performed, and children were nailed to trees and had rocks thrown at them. Oh, they also sold baked goods. 

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