You might be confronted with the statue of limitations if this all happened 17 years ago,
not to make any excuses for the borg, I too think that there might be an opening for people that have suffered this kind of treatment
thats been orchestrated by an organization such as the WTS religion or not.
I would focus on two points one being that public humiliation implemented by those particular leaders and
two the deliberate instigation of destroying your person relationship with your immediate family members.
You might also want to state that you had no personal choice in joining since you were brought up in it as a child.
There many other people that got brought up in a religion ( cults ) from birth that were mistreated and had their civil rights taken away.
Something to think about anyways .......good luck