Source: Metafilter“I was robbed of my childhood” September 2, 2015 6:33 PM Children are defenseless against abuse. They don’t vote. They don’t organize. They don’t have money to hire lobbyists or spin media campaigns to protect their interests. They don’t have a voice. They rely on adults for protection—and sometimes it’s those same adults who…
Source: New York Times Published: June 19, 2000 ISLAND POND, Vt., June 18— Sixteen years after a swarm of Vermont troopers rousted 112 children from their beds in an effort to examine them for signs of abuse, some of those same children, now adults, returned today to this community to swear that they had felt…
This excellent, well researched article was published by Pacific Standard, a National Magazine, Award-winning, bimonthly based out of California. The whole article can be seen on Pacific Standard’s online magazine: here The following are the first paragraphs: Shuah Jones, 15, stuffed clothes under her bed blankets in the shape of a body, grabbed her diary…
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Source: psmag.com 26 aug 2015 Despite media exposés over the years, members who have left the controversial religious sect known as the Twelve Tribes claim that the group continues to beat children, exploit them as free workers, and deny them access to education and modern medicine. When do religious protections protect too much? Pacific Standard…
EL tells the story of her involvement with the Twelve Tribes into which she followed her husband from Togo to Canada. I am an African woman and I grew up in a 7th day Adventist family. I have survived my experience with the 12 tribes and I married a Canadian man in Africa in 2010….
Source: ValerieTarico.com Valerie Tarico, AlterNet 18 Aug 2015 at 23:57 ET On the surface, valuing embryonic life and abusing children are at odds, but with a biblical view of childhood, these positions can go hand in hand. Why do the same people who fight against abortion argue that parents should have the right to hit their…
Source: The Daily Telegraph – 5th August 2015 OSCAR-WINNER Cate Blanchett‘s debut as director will tell the story of a woman who flees a cult only to fall into a nightmare of imprisonment and government detention. Screen Australia says the actor will direct Stateless, a television series based on the story of German-Australian woman and…
Source: Sudouest – 9 July 2015 Just over two weeks after the impressive gendarmerie raid on the sectarian community an open house was held on Sunday. The community of the Twelve Tribes, otherwise known as Tabitha’s Place, organized its open house last Sunday, a little over two weeks after the impressive police operation which led…
Following is the Google translation of and link to the ungoing petition====>CLICK HERE TO GO TO PETITION Petitioning Attn: Office of Children of San Sebastian Ministry of Education Basque Government The Spanish authorities should enforce minimum standards of protection and education of children in the sect of “The Twelve Tribes” Sectarian Redune-Prevention Network…