Source: WNYT Channel 13 by Karen Tararache, June 06, 2018 06:46 AM “If I explain to you what it’s like to watch a diaper get pulled off of a six month old baby so that it can be beaten with a rod until it’s welts, it’s covered in welts and bruises,” Shuah Jones explained. Jones…
Source: Associated Press Fox News CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. – State investigators have found child labor law violations involving 12 minors working at a cosmetics packaging shop run by a New York religious community and are expanding their probe to eight other sites affiliated with the group, officials said Tuesday. State labor department investigators visited the Twelve…
Source: Beauty Independent June 5, 2018 Brand Report Rachel Brown Claire McCormack Amanda West Reade Despite increasing demand for transparency, there remains a veil of secrecy separating beauty consumers from the factories making the beauty products they purchase. When that veil is lifted, the picture can be unsettling as Inside Edition reporting last Friday exposing…
Source: Department of Labor (DOL) Violations could result in tens of thousands of dollars in fines Eight Additional Investigations Opened for Other Twelve Tribes Entities in NY Albany, NY (June 05, 2018) – Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon today announced the preliminary results of an ongoing investigation into the Twelve Tribes community located in Cambridge, NY,…
Source: New York Post By Laura Italiano 31 May 2018 A religious cult is forcing children as young as 9 to work the assembly line in its upstate factory — packaging fancy soaps and other goods that are then sold by Amazon, Whole Foods, Target and Walmart, a new exposé claims. The factory, in rural…
Source: Parcast, series of podcasts on cults, May 2018 To go to Part 1 and Part 2 of this very special podcast on the Twelve Tribes and their founder Elbert Eugene Spriggs click on the image above and it will take you straight to the audio and start listening. To go to the page of…
April 2018: Interviewed by Sea to Sea (a youtube program of mystery and paranormal) Sinasta Colucci has a candid but serious long look at his experiences as a “disciple of Yahshua”. He shares his insights with lightheartedness and invites us to read his newly published book: “Better than a Turkish prison, what I have learned…
Source: Coos County Democrat and Berlin Reporter Tara Giles April 19, 2017 Lancaster, NH – The group that owns and operates Simon the Tanner in Lancaster is known as the Twelve Tribes, and some of its members extended a rare invitation to the Democrat last week, opening themselves to questions about the organization. The organization…
Source: The Ithaca College Chronicle By Sarah Stuart-Sikowitz, Staff Writer It was a shock to many when the Maté Factor, an eccentric tea and juice bar on the Commons, closed in February of 2016. This left many Ithacans longing for a restaurant to find Yerba Maté tea and to attend weekly rap sessions. However, relief came…
Source: The Daily Star 26 January 2017 ONEONTA — The fate of Market Street parcels owned by Twelve Tribes members and criticism of a proposed food and beverage center were raised today at a public hearing held by the Otsego County Industrial Development Agency as part of eminent domain procedures. No further eminent domain action…