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 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…
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: 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…
Source: Ausburger Allgemeine 06/07/2018 Bei den Zwölf Stämmen in Klosterzimmern ist es immer wieder zu Gewalt gegen Kinder gekommen, wie in diversen Gerichtsverfahren festgestellt wurde. Foto: Jan Kandzora Ein Mann soll zwei Buben teils mehrfach nach den Vorstellungen der Zwölf Stämme gezüchtigt haben. Der Verteidiger bezweifelt, dass deren Aussagen glaubwürdig sind. Von Verena Mörzl Es…
Source: France TV Info.fr Par CL Publié le 10/05/2018 à 15:54 Info-Sectes lance une alerte à Toulouse concernant les « 12 tribus » appelée aussi « Tabitha’s Place ». L’organisation s’implante dans la ville rose. Elle ferait du prosélytisme pour attirer des jeunes. La secte a été dissoute en Allemagne en 2013 en raison de maltraitances sur…
Source: Parcast, series of podcasts on cults, May 2018 To go to Part 1 and Part 2 of this very special podcast on the Twelve Tribes and their founder Elbert Eugene Spriggs click on the image above and it will take you straight to the audio and start listening. To go to the page of…
This initial video begins to explore a few issues related to the Twelve Tribes and their business fronts Yellow Deli and farmer’s market booth, which are used to recruit and fundraise in Nelson, BC Canada. The main topics that are featured here are “child discipline” trans/homo-phobia and the structure of the organization behind the Twelve…
Source: CASE OF TLAPAK AND OTHERS v. GERMANY DOWLOAD CASE OF TLAPAK AND OTHERS v. GERMANY FIFTH SECTION CASE OF TLAPAK AND OTHERS v. GERMANY (Applications nos. 11308/16 and 11344/16) JUDGMENT STRASBOURG 22 March 2018 This judgment will become final in the circumstances set out in Article 44 § 2 of the Convention. It may…
