The Buffalo News Janet Gramza April 27, 1997 When the phone call finally came, Laurie Johnson’s heart soared. After an eight year search for her two sons, authorities had found them in a small town in Florida. But the moment she had prayed for held little joy. When she finally met them, her sons refused…
Source: Buffalo Evening News Gene Warner 1996 The South Towns woman summed up her frustration in one short sentence: “Ive already lost my daughter.” The woman’s daughter, who is in her 30’s, is a member of the Community, a town of Hamburg group of about 40 people who live together, dress in modest clothes, shun…
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Dorchester Community News Sean Cahill May 10, 1996 The Bible-based cult which runs the popular Common Ground restaurant in Lower Mills has in recent weeks leafletted several Dorchester neighborhoods with virulently anti-gay literature, which could easily be construed as encouraging violence against lesbians, gays and transgender residents. The cult, whose members dress in old fashioned…
Cultists protest raid The Winnipeg Sun Mike McIntyre April 11, 1996 Police search for kids actually ‘witch-hunt’ Angry members of a local religious cult say there were ulterior motives behind raids more than 70 police officers conducted yesterday in a search for two kidnapped kids. Cops hit four homes and two businesses just before 6…
Copied from Twelve Tribes-ex.com, original publication date sometime after 1984 This is a place where reality wobbles like a table with one short leg. Here, some say Walt Disney characters are evil and the world is satanic. Here – in the name of God children are often beaten, denied medical care, held out of school…
The Twelve Tribes appear on the Jerry Springer Show. People looking to reunite with their loved ones members of this cult are on the show asking for help. Members defend their position. Show aired in March 1994. Video graciously provided by Brian Birmingham
September 1993 The state seeks to have Eugene Hunt held in contempt for failure to pay child support. The issue revolves around Hunt’s “ability to pay” and his claim that his religious beliefs as a member of the Northeast Kingdom Community Church in Island Pond deprive him of that ability. The Island Pond church alleges…
Winnipeg Sun Donna Carreiro April 4, 1993 Kris Servante is making an anguished plea to the daughter she hasn’t seen in 10 years. “If you’ve read this, Karen, we want you to come and see us,” Servante said yesterday, from her Neepawa home. “We love you, and we will not cause you or your church…
The Chronicle March 23, 1983 Juan Mattatall, a defector from the Northeast Kingdom Community Church of Island Pond [now known as “Twelve Tribes] who is trying to get his own three year old daughter back from Europe in the custody of cult leader Eugene Spriggs, has reportedly helped bring another defector’s child home from Spain….