CBC Child and Family Services says it’s looking into allegations children might be abused A Winnipeg religious group called Twelve Tribes is defending the way it physically disciplines children, using a type of stick. Manitoba’s child welfare authorities said they are looking into the group after CBC’s story earlier this week. Twelve Tribes, a Christian…
Note: Some liberties were taken with the text. For example – where the original author calls the Twelve Tribes “a community of faith,” I call it a Bible -based cult. That’s really what they are! The German/English translator (Cheryl) Von Philipp/earthlink August 11, 2014 Translated from the German In September 2013 RTL -Reporter Wolfram Kuhnigk…
Augburger Allgemeine June 5, 2014 Translated from the German Several parents and their children of the controversial sect “Twelve Tribes” seem to have left Germany. At the end of April five teenagers moved with their parents to Austria said the Donau-Ries District Office on Wednesday. The young people were brought in September 2013 along with…
Source: North Devon Journal Published 30 May 2014 AN investigation into the possibility that children were beaten with canes at a religious community has ended due to “insufficient evidence”. Police officers and Devon County Council began a “thorough review” of information received about the about the Twelve Tribes community, which runs the Common Loaf Bakery…
Source: Express and Echo By Exeter Express and Echo | Posted: May 29, 2014 Stentwood Farm near Honiton, Devon where the Twelve Tribes sect is based A DEVON County Council and police probe into whether children have been beaten with canes at a religious community near Honiton has concluded due to “insufficient evidence”. In October…
Source: Cape Cod Times Amy Anthony April 26, 2014 A man recently ordered by a Vermont jury to pay $35 million in damages to a woman he was convicted of sexually assaulting years ago joined the Twelve Tribes religious community in Hyannis to avoid paying the victim, the victim’s attorney alleges. On April 18, after…
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…
Translated from the German Children should be with their parents at Pentecost. The Twelve Tribes want to celebrate the feast of Pentecost because it is so important for them and their children. Therefore, they have requested that children who are currently in foster homes must now go home. Twelve Tribes in Klosterzimmern Seven families went…
Translated from the German The District Court of Ansbach has confirmed that some of the Twelve Tribes children continue to remain in foster care. In Nördlingen the courts have failed to render a decision. As far as the custody battle for the Twelve Tribes sect children, the district court Ansbach has decided that the children…
Source: Spiegel Online / Schulspiegel Original title: Leben nach der Sekte: “Ich habe keine Wurzeln und keine Kraft zu fliegen” Published: Monday 27 January 2014 Link: http://www.spiegel.de/schulspiegel/leben/zwoelf-staemme-wie-eine-aussteigerin-versucht-ins-leben-zu-finden-a-944962.html Pdf: No roots and no wings to fly After leaving the sect: no roots and no wings to fly She was born into a sect and whipped…