The Independent September 29, 2013 Jamie Merrill The NSPCC has called for an investigation into the practises of a controversial Christian sect after an Independent investigation revealed allegations of physical child abuse. The children’s charity is calling on Devon County Council and Devon and Cornwall Police to examine the activities of the Twelve Tribes…
An investigative journalist infiltrates the group and finds evidence of child abuse. This will lead to the raid early September 2013 where 40 children were taken into state custody.
The Twelve Tribes movement has been rocked by a child abuse scandal in Germany. But is the sect simply misunderstood? The Independent, UK/September 16, 2013 Jamie Merrill Tucked away down a quiet lane eight miles north of Honiton, the tea room and farm at Stentwood seem like just another tranquil spot on the east Devon…
http://guardianlv.com/2013/09/40-kids-rescued-from-christian-sect-that-abuses-in-gods-name/#gbZAtLWG1s82M2Bu.99 Bavaria, Germany. Police have swooped in to rescue forty children from a Christian sect, following allegations that the children were being physically abused. The sect, known as “Twelve Tribes,” that has bases globally and promotes hitting children with rods as God’s word, was subject to a dawn raid, involving one hundred police officers, at…
Source: PrinceGeorge Citizen newspaper Peter JAMES / Staff writer July 3, 2013 01:00 AM In a case Crown prosecutor Geoffrey McDonald called “comical” and defence lawyer Keith Jones termed “bizarre,” a former Prince George resident was handed a 45-day jail sentence Tuesday for possessing child pornography. Ross Haynes Sandwell, 42, pled guilty to one charge…
Translated from the German Süddeutsche May 22, 2012 Von Stefan Mayr In the middle of Bavaria in a state-approved school racists educate children and young people. Several former members accuse the Twelve Tribes sect of just that. In addition, infants were chastised with safety pins and willow sticks. The Augsburg prosecutor now checks whether…
Clara Rose Thornton June 11, 2009 An African American woman sets out to learn organic farming and gets more than she bargains for Bellows Falls – From a balcony overlooking the pristine flow of water at the base of rolling Fall Mountain, I observe a swirl of colors and register a happy cacophony of sounds….
SCRIBA – During the mid- 1980s, newspapers from coast to coast carried reports on court actions taken against the Northeast Community Church for the alleged beating of children as well as truancy. Ex-church members were coming forward with detailed accounts of how church children were being punished; stripped naked, boys and girls, from toddlers…
The first part of this French Report on Cults in France aired in 1997 introduces us to the subject of children in cults and takes us to Tabitha’s Place, the French branch of the 12 Tribes. We get to see their children and hear from them and their parents.
Twelve Tribes in the news on US TV, mid 90′s 12 Tribes US TV News 1/3 by exttmetoo Twelve Tribes on CBC Canada 12 Tribes US TV News 2/3 by exttmetoo 12 Tribes US TV News 3/3 by exttmetoo