Source:Le Parisien November 24, 2006 Jean-Marc Ducos Translated from the French (Cheryl – web mistress of Twelve Tribes-ex.com) A family of five children, who lived for five years at Tabitha’s Place community in Sus, France, filed a complaint stating the cult abused them when they were at their weakest. They lived a real ordeal before…
Le monde.fr November 22, 2006 Translated from the French (Cheryl – web mistress) ***Certain liberties were taken with the original French text in describing the Twelve Tribes and Elbert Eugene Spriggs. Several members of the Parliamentary Commission on sects visited Tabitha’s Place, a community based in Sus, near Pau (Pyrenees Atlantic) to investigate with the…
Source: Burlington Free Press Friday October 13, 2006 ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Supreme Court has ruled that a former Vermont woman must pay child support despite her religious beliefs. In a split decision, the court said the state can revoke the driver’s license of Joyce Stanzione, a member of Twelve Tribes Messianic…
New York Daily News Ernie Naspreto Daily News Police Bureau August 22, 2006 The family that robs together, gets caught together. A brother – and sister bank – robbery team was busted yesterday after cops staked out a West Side methadone clinic, where the male half of the team was getting treatment, police said. Joe…
Source: Time Argus, September 05,2005 MONTPELIER — The Vermont Supreme Court will decide whether a former Vermont woman can avoid paying child support because of her religious beliefs. The Vermont Office of Child Support in 2003 received a court order allowing it to suspend the driver’s license of Joyce Stanzione, a former Vermont resident who…
Boy Came Forward To Church Elders In 1997 TheChamplainChannel.com/February 11, 2005 Island Pond, Vt. — Police charged a former member of the Twelve Tribes Church in Island Pond with molesting a young boy. John Thomas, 32, is accused of sexually abusing at least one of the children at the church in the Northeast Kingdom. Church…
Source: The Caledonian-Record/February 10, 2005 By James Jardine St. Johnsbury Vermont — John W. Thomas of Savoy, Mass., is scheduled to be arraigned in Caledonia District Court on one count of sexual assault on a minor and three counts of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child. The state alleges Thomas sexually abused four children,…
Brattleboro Reformer/April 17, 2004 By Mike Kalil Brattleboro — The husband of a woman arrested this week on a 16-year-old charge of keeping her daughter away from her biological father said Friday he was surprised by his wife’s arrest. And so was the former Windham County Sheriff’s Department chief deputy, who headed the investigation back…
Source: Cult News ,30 October 2002 An excellent editorial appeared in the Edmonton Journal written by Paula Simons regarding the background history of a Canadian “cult” child abuse case. Lucille Poulin, the leader of the “Four Winds Commune” was convicted on five counts of assault for beating children within her group. Her defense was essentially…
Boston Herald/September 7, 2001 By Dave Wedge A former Twelve Tribes member who didn’t want his child raised in the controversial cult fled the country with the boy five years ago and is still being sought by Boston police, records show. “He was afraid that if they got into a drawn-out court battle, then the…