Source: Channel 9 News Children ‘spanked 30 times a day’ in secretive sect, ex-member says By Alison Piotrowski 7:48pm Oct 29, 2019 Eighteen years on from his time inside the Twelve Tribes religious sect, Matthew Klein is still scarred. “They not only control your medical care, they control your food, when you get to see…
Source: Daily Mail Or Mathias claims he was subjected to years of physical and psychological abuse Mr Mathias said his 18 years in the sect have left him permanently traumatised The now 26-year-old alleges child abuse is rampant within the communities Original member Andrew McLeod previously said there is no child abuse present By Brittany Chain…
Source: Daily Telegraph Gillian McNally, The Sunday Telegraph September 7, 2019 9:00pm From the outside, they look like hippies selling wholesome food, preaching peace, communal living and an old-fashioned way of life. But inside, former members of the Twelve Tribes say it’s a work camp that takes advantage of members’ volunteer labour while claiming religious…
Source: Daily Telegraph It was only the second email Twelve Tribes sect member Rose Cruzado sent in her life. But with just four words she found the courage she had spent years searching for. It took two years for Matthew Klein to escape — but it too came at a cost. Gillian McNally, The Sunday…
… INTERACTIVE: INSIDE THE SECT Source: Daily Telegraph Sect accused of using ‘slave labour’ to run cafes ‘I’m not coming back’: Mum’s brave escape Or Mathias’s earliest memory of growing up in the Twelve Tribes is being beaten 15 times on the buttocks with a bamboo stick. He wasn’t allowed to be comforted by his…
SOUTH BEND — New businesses in South Bend are usually met with great enthusiasm, but a recently erected sign announcing a new “Yellow Deli” has caused controversy among some in North Pacific County. A photo of the deli’s swirling yellow logo was posted on Facebook within days of it appearing alongside U.S. Highway 101. The…
WARNING: This article sensationalizes and exagerates even lies about what is actually in the FBI’s vault. But it also reflects the testimonies true, or not of those witnesses who spoke to the FBI. It will stay on this website until a better article summing up the FBI’s records is made public. So the reader is…
Source: Pulpit and Pen by News Division · Published April 13, 2019 · Updated April 14, 2019 Before I told this story, I wanted enough time to pass to de-escalate a highly volatile situation. But, it’s a story that needs to be told. A little more than a year ago, I made contact with a…
Source: Patheos.com April 13, 2019 by David G. McAfee 4 Comments If you can’t imagine what it’s like to be sucked into a religious cult, you should read this new book. The Kindle version of Better Than A Turkish Prison, which gives an inside look into a popular religious cult, is out now by Hypatia…
Source: Women’s Weekly In the Twelve Tribes community, members dance, sing, work hard and bake great cookies. But Beverley Hadgraft meets the former members and investigators who believe the community is a cult that’s also abusing its youngest and most vulnerable members. Oct 18, 2018 8:30am By Beverley Hadgraft Tessa Klein was four when she…
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