For Ricky Rodriguez, the book was both a record of his childhood and a prison from which he could never fully escape. His attempted revenge and subsequent suicide demonstrate the long-term psychological devastation that such abuse can cause.
In the mid-1970s, Berg’s second wife and eventual successor, Karen Zerby (known within the group as “Maria”), was on a Flirty Fishing mission in Tenerife, one of Spain’s Canary Islands. There, she seduced a local hotel employee and became pregnant. The child was born on January 25, 1975, and was named David Moses Zerby. He was later known legally as Richard Peter Rodriguez. The Story Of Davidito Book