The pseudo-religious organization 'The Baby Garden' filed an application for a provisional injunction to ban broadcasting against the Netflix documentary 'In the Name of God: A Holy Betrayal'

The pseudo-religious organization 'The Baby Garden' filed an application for a provisional injunction against the Netflix documentary 'In the Name of God: A Holy Betrayal' to ban broadcasting. Baby Garden is the second organization that filed an application for a provisional injunction against the documentary, following the Christian Gospel Mission (JMS).

According to March 13 legal documents, Kim Ki Soon (83), the head of 'Baby Garden,' filed an application for a provisional injunction against the corporation Netflix Korea, MBC, and the documentary producer Jo Sung Hyun with the Seoul Central District Court on March 8. The organization asked the court to ban the streaming and airing of the 5th and 6th episodes titled 'The Baby Garden, On the Way to the Heaven' and ‘The Baby Garden of Death,’ respectively.

The religious leader Kim Ki Soon's side said, "Episodes 5 and 6 of 'In the Name of God: A Holy Betrayal' contain false information about Baby Garden and Kim Ki Soon" and demanded that Netflix Korea pay 'The Baby Garden' 10 million KRW (~7,711 USD) every day that the episodes continue to stream.

In 2001, Baby Garden also applied for a provisional injunction to ban broadcasting against SBS 'Unanswered Questions - 5 years after the Baby Garden.' At the time, the Southern District Court of the Seoul District Court accepted this, and SBS urgently produced a special documentary instead of the episode '5 Years after the Baby Garden,' which was scheduled to be aired.

However, it seems unlikely that the court will accept the request for an injunction this time. Previously, the JMS also applied for an injunction, but it was dismissed on March 2. At the time, the court said, “It seems that MBC and Netflix collected a considerable amount of objective and subjective data and organized the program based on this.”

The Baby Garden is a collective village-type religious organization founded by Kim Ki Soon in 1982. This organization once reverted the private property of believers to the common property of the church, and in December 1982, it established Synnara Records, a record distribution company in Yongdu-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul.

In December 1996, Kim Ki Soon appeared before the prosecution after being suspected of murdering and burying believers. She was found guilty of six charges, including tax evasion, embezzlement, and assault, and was sentenced to four years in prison and a fine of 5.6 billion KRW (~4.3 million USD), but was later acquitted and released on bail.