Source: Burlington Free Press Sam Hemingway, Free Press Staff Writer 12:13 p.m. EDT April 23, 2014 A Vermont jury has ordered Scott Isaacson, 56, of Hyannis, Mass., to pay $35 million in damages to a 24-year-old woman he is accused of repeatedly molesting in Vermont and elsewhere when she was a young girl. The decision…
Source: San Diego reader By Edward Sifuentes | 6:07 a.m. March 9, 2013 A dispute brewing for more than two years between the state and a North County religious organization may have been quietly resolved late last year. The conflict began in June 2010 when inspectors for the state Division of Labor Standards visited the…
Source : San Diego reader 2013 January 3 2013 Dorian Hargrove Not only are roads unneeded, there is no need for cars or personal possessions. All the Twelve Tribes require for the journey is a community that shares – love, friendship, earthly possessions – everything in exchange for peace and salvation. The Twelve Tribes is…
source: Cult Information and Family Support, Australia To download pdf: Fenech-Australia-2011 CIFS Conference: Address: Georges FENECH CANBERRA, Parliament House CIFS (Translation from French) November 2 2011Conference Report and Video National Cult Information and Family Support (CIFS) Conference “Cults in Australia: Facing the Realities” Speech by Georges FENECH, President of MIVILUDES Honourable Senators, President of CIFS…
Source: Brattleboro Reformer Howard Weiss- Tisman July 10, 2010 Westminister, Vt – The state is alleging that members of the Twelve Tribes violated Vermont air pollution control regulations when they burned the remnants of the former Oonas restaurant on their farm in Westminister. The religious group was also cited for illegally operating a solid waste…
Island Pond, Vermont – July 16, 2009 Featured Videos The Island Pond Raid: 25 Years Later, Part 2 Police lead Jeremiah Whitten out of his Island Pond home in 1984. Jeremiah Whitten – Today Island Pond, Vermont – July 16, 2009 Jeremiah Whitten remembers like it was yesterday the morning he awoke to…
Source: WCAX.com-2009-Vermont Featured Videos The Island Pond Raid: 25 Years Later, Part 1 Island Pond, Vermont – July 15, 2009 Island Pond is a small village within the town of Brighton; a quiet area where moose seem to outnumber people. But in the late 1970s, Island Pond’s population began to grow quickly when a community…
William Hinchcliffe, member of the Twelve Tribes WDEF News 12 May 22, 2008 A News 12 update now on Wednesday’s fatal crash on Highway 60 near the Hamilton-Bradley County line. The Tennessee Highway patrol says alcohol played a role in the crash that claimed the life of 20 year old amber Brown of Cleveland. Troopers…
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald/March 25, 2008 By Paul Bibby The general manager of the Royal Easter Show said he would not be surprised if a cafe run at the event by a Christian sect was inspected by the state’s workplace watchdog after revelations its workers were not being paid. Michael Collins said officers from…
By Dave Gram Source: Boston Globe September 25, 2007 (through Bishop accountability.org) GUILDHALL, Vt. — Molested as a child, a 23-year-old man wept in court Monday as he confronted the former church teacher who abused him when he was 11, telling him: “Don’t you ever do it to anyone else.” John W. Thomas, 37, of…