Source: http://www.oocities.org/realidadebr/rn/seitas/s100401.htmSÉRGIO DÁVILAPublicado no Jornal Folha de São Paulo em 10/04/2001 A empresa Sundance, do ator Robert Redford, dona do festival de cinema de mesmo nome e reconhecida internacionalmente por suas preocupações ambientais e humanitárias, vendia desde 1999 móveis fabricados pelo movimento religioso Doze Tribos, que promove o trabalho infantil gratuito. O grupo religioso isolacionista,…
Scandal NY Post .com Jeane Macintosh April 9, 2001 A bizarre upstate cult that uses kid laborers to churn out products – some in Robert Redford’s catalog – is under scrutiny by state labor officials following a Post report on their practices. In the wake of the Post’s report Sunday on the Twelve Tribes cult’s…
New York Post Jeane Macintosh April 8, 2001 For some children of the Twelve Tribes, the beatings begin in infancy and sometimes don’t stop until they’re old enough to have kids of their own. They start working as young as 2 or 3, and by 13 or 14 are expected to quit home-schooling to work…
NY Post Jeane MacIntosh April 8, 2001 A Robert Redford catalog company unwittingly sold products made from a firm that uses child laborers – all members of a controversial upstate cult – to make some of its products. The children are part of Twelve Tribes, a racist, isolationist Bible-based cult that believes in beating kids…
NYPost.com Andy Geller April 8, 2001 Elbert Eugene Spriggs was working in a carnival in Chattanooga, Tenn., when he says he heard the Lord ask him, “Is this what I created you for?” The year was 1969, and the answer was no. Within three years, the former high-school guidance counselor had created the Twelve Tribes,…
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