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Between the ages of 14 and 18, influencer Agnes Arabela Marques was a victim of a yoga sect founded by a controversial guru who was arrested in France on November 28. In her three years as a member of the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute (MISA), Marques says she was raped, sexually abused and exploited along with hundreds of other women under the influence Romanian guru Gregorian Bivolaru and his teachings of tantric yoga. Now that Bivolaru is behind bars, Marques pleads that he never be released so that no other woman should have to suffer the same ordeal. "Anybody who supports MISA or the guru supports pornography, paedophilia and sexual exploitation," she tells AFP. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES