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They are also to receive treatment and counselling.

The two women and one man, who cannot be identified under a publication ban, earlier pleaded guilty to unlawful confinement.

One of the women, the only one dressed at the time of the kidnapping, also pleaded guilty to dangerous driving. Her teenage daughters were also arrested but not charged.

Court heard the group, who are Jehovah’s Witnesses, had gathered at a home near Leduc on Nov. 2, 2017. The mother, who was then 35, had taken her daughters there to visit her 27-year-old nephew and his 30-year-old wife.

Strange things then happened over the next few days.

The group didn’t leave the house and barely ate any food as they participated in muscle testing, an alternative medical technique used to find problems in the body.

Some heard noises. Some hid from demons.

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And when it was Nov. 6, they day they thought was Armageddon, they rushed off to find safety and save their neighbours.

Four people in the group were naked and didn’t have time to put clothes on, said Crown prosecutor Katrina Stewart Lund.

They were also in such a rush that they drove their BMW SUV through a garage door and through a gate at the neighbour’s home.

They then forced the neighbours — a man, his adult daughter and her six-week-old son — out of their house. The woman and her baby were put in the back seat of the SUV and the man was put in the trunk.

He was ordered to chant “Jehovah” ten times and the group also chanted “Jehovah” as the vehicle sped down roads and through a red light on the way to nearby Nisku, Stewart Lund said.