An interview with Dr Steven Kent was released last week where he spoke how the Children of God were enabled by Sociologists who opposed his concerns about the abuse in the Cult
https://www.youtube.com/live/2EApXU8piHk?t=934 (from 0:15:34 - NSFW)
More on Dr Kent and his work researching Cults
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_A._Kent#Research
https://www.xfamily.org/index.php/Main_Page
https://groups.able2know.org/xfamily/
https://www.reddit.com/r/exchildrenofgod_TFI/