On Friday, after serving 33 years for sex crimes against children, George Feigley, 68, will exit prison and reenter society.

Feigley, who used aliases such as “G.G. Stoctay Ph.D.” and “the Angel of Light,” has long maintained that his Neo American Church was never a cult. But he had a group of devoted followers who risked life and limb for him.

The tenets of Feigley’s Neo American Church, not to be confused with a church of the same name founded by Timothy Leary in the 1960s, included an emphasis on achieving mystical experiences through orgasm. It also included a sinister point of view on the sexuality of children and how they should be used for pleasure.

She lived in a world where parents willingly gave up their children to a man who declared himself “The Light of the World.”

A world where children were beaten for letting anyone but fellow cult members see them, and their genitals were pierced with a lock to be controlled by this so-called prophet. It was a world unimaginable to most people, but it was her reality for seven years, from the time she was 5 until her mother broke free of George Feigley’s grip.

This friday the cult leader will be released from prison.