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TORONTO - This is not a match made in heaven.

A Mississauga printing company linked to a cult-like church being investigated by the OPP on allegations of polygamy and underage sex has been doing work for years for the Dufferin-Peel District Catholic School Board, the Toronto Sun has learned.

TriPrint Media is one of 15 current pre-qualified vendors on the board’s list for printing services and has been used in the past as well, confirms spokesman Bruce Campbell. But he stopped short of saying that the Catholic school board will no longer be using the company.

“We recently became aware of the controversy related to the company. We are, of course, not obligated to use any one vendor on the pre-qualified list,†he said.

A member of the printing industry who has done business with TriPrint Media for years said colleagues were horrified when they read the Toronto Sun story Friday and watched a W5 documentary about the Church of Jesus Christ Restored and their printing company run by Joe King, brother of the church’s self-proclaimed Prophet, Fred.

“As a collective group we’re shocked and horrified,†said the print broker, who requested anonymity. “The school board is their biggest account. We anonymously mailed them a copy of the W5 video last week. I don’t think the Catholic District School Board wants to be associated with these people. As a taxpayer, I certainly don’t.â€

The woman now blowing the whistle on the church couldn’t agree more. “I don’t think anybody should be doing business with them,†said former “church-wife†Carol Christie, 59.

The OPP are in the initial stages of investigating claims she and other former members have made about physical and sexual abuse committed by the church and its leader. Several attempts to reach TriPrint Media and the Kings for comment were not returned.

In 1969, the church broke away from the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints in Owen Sound after Stan King became dissatisfied with how it was straying from fundamentalist Mormon teachings. The married charismatic leader installed himself as the Prophet and at 18, Christie was told by her mother that she would be one of his “church wives†— even though he was 24 years older.

At about the same time, the secretive Mormon sect, based at a former bankrupt ski lodge outside Owen Sound, established a printing business in Mississauga known then as Resto Graphics where many members were expected to work.

Christie would have two sons with King, who took more wives, some as young as 10, and ordered them to participate in group sex. When he died in 1986, Christie thought she was free. Instead, she was simply passed to his successor, his legitimate son, Fred, who she claims had the same taste for child brides but ran the church with a far more brutal hand.

She finally fled in 2008 and two years later launched a lawsuit against the church, Resto Graphics, as well as owners Fred and Joe King. “Resto and the church were inextricably entwined in the minds and lives of the members of the church,†Christie claimed in her lawsuit. “The plural wives of Stanley and Fred were taught by such persons and by Joe that the work performed to benefit Resto was in turn intended to benefit, build up and edify the Church and its assets and material interests.â€

As one of Fred’s seven wives, she alleged she was subject to “coercive and abusive sexual relations†and “forcible confinementâ€, assaults, threats and emotional abuse.

While the Kings denied all her allegations in their statement of defence, the lawsuit was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. So, too, were five others launched by former members of the church.

A short time later, Resto Graphics changed its name to TriPrint Media. Among their employees is Christie’s youngest son who refused to come with her when she finally broke free of the church after almost 40 years under its control.

“You’re blackmailed that if you leave, you go to hell,†she explained. “Fear is a very powerful thing that keeps you there. You’re taught the world is an evil place.â€

When the true evil may be what’s going on inside.

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TORONTO - In the heart of pastoral Ontario, Carol Christie lived a nightmare that she insists exists to this day. And finally the OPP are looking into her bombshell allegations of a church cult that condones polygamy, underage sex, physical abuse and brainwashing.

Now 59, Christie once dreamed of being a nurse. Instead, her mother groomed her to be the sex slave of Stan King, a charismatic, self-proclaimed “Prophet†of a fundamentalist Mormon sect who decreed he could have as many wives as he wanted.

Including girls as young as 10-years-old.

When Christie was 18, she says she was beaten and drugged by a fellow member of the Church of Jesus Christ Restored, and then taken to live with King and his other wives at his farmhouse in Sauble Beach. He was 24 years her senior.

Eventually the church would buy a bankrupt ski resort outside of Owen Sound and set up residence. She soon won his favour because she bore him two sons. “I belonged to the Prophet. He owned you and you danced to his rules and you did whatever would make him happy,†Christie recalled bitterly.

Even if that included group sex.

When King died in 1986, Christie dared to dream again, that perhaps she and her children would soon be free of the church that ruled their every thought and movement. Instead, King’s son Fred by his legal wife took over both his title and his possessions. And so she was passed from father to son.

“He said whatever belonged to the first Prophet was now his,†she recalls.

Like his father before him, she says he, too, filled his bed with underage girls. One of his seven “church wives†was a child bride of 10 or 11, she says.

But unlike the first Prophet, Christie claims the second harboured a deep streak of cruelty and violence.

“I finally left because I thought he was going to kill me,†she says. “It wasn’t just me he was beating, it was other members of the church as well. He said chastisement was the will of God so we could become free of all our evil.â€

After years of abuse and humiliation, her oldest son escaped in 2007. Meanwhile, the rage and physical violence she endured at King’s church services began to intensify. She’d go to bed each night, praying God would take her in her sleep. “There was nothing more to live for except more beatings and being told you were evil and mental.â€

For eight years, she was kept under “house arrest†in a Guelph apartment where she had to care for the children of other “church wives.†Her youngest son and other members of the sect had to work at the church-owned printing business in Mississauga.

Christie finally decided to leave after she was slapped and kicked at an Easter Sunday service in 2008, but her son refused to join her. He told her he was afraid he’d go to hell if he left, just as the Prophet had threatened. “The brainwashing goes so deep,†she sighs. “It is truly the worst chapter of my life because I had to leave him behind.â€

After much counselling, she slowly rebuilt her life. She met her husband, an Owen Sound broadcaster and former city councillor, when she took a cleaning job at the local radio station. They married in 2009.

He was the first person to whom she told her harrowing story. The second was her lawyer.

In 2010, Christie filed a lawsuit against King, now 53, and the church, alleging she was involved in polygamous “coercive and abusive sexual relations†and was subject to “forcible confinementâ€, assaults, threats and emotional abuse.

King and the church filed a statement of defence denying all her allegations. But they quickly settled her lawsuit and five others for “a lot of money.†A request for comment left at the church’s printing business was not returned.

Christie is now determined to go public and see the 40-member church shuttered. Her story aired on CTV’s W5 two weeks ago and the OPP have confirmed that they’re now investigating. “We’re still in the very early stages,†said Sgt. Dave Rektor.

Helping in her crusade is John Knisley, Fred’s half-brother and son of the church’s founder, Stan King. He got away in 1998 but his mother and sister still remain there. “I am working with officials and others to help close down and end this cult that is still holding my family captive,†says Knisley, who also settled his lawsuit against the church. “I want to see my mother again. I haven’t seen her for 14 years.â€

Christie may be free, but she remains tortured by those still trapped inside: Not only her son, but the young girls being groomed to be King’s brides. “It rips the heart out of me,†she says softly. “That’s why I’m trying so hard to get it shut down and get them a chance at life.â€

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