Source: Salmon Press Media by Edith Tucker October 14, 2015 LANCASTER — John Brosseau, a skilled carpenter and general manager of the Simon the Tanner retail store at 55 Main St. that is owned and operated by the Twelve Tribes Community, now predicts that the Yellow Deli restaurant will be open when the daffodils bloom…
October 2015 Kickshaw Today I read “Children of the Tribes” by Julia Scheeres, an article about alleged abusive practices of unpaid labor and child abuse in the Twelve Tribes cult. This paragraph from the article caught my eye: The Tribes now has communities at 12 locations around the globe, most of them in New England,…
Source: Wicked Local Plymouth Posted Oct. 2, 2015 at 11:41 AM Updated Oct 2, 2015 at 3:46 PM PLYMOUTH – A well-known member of the Twelve Tribes, Marcel Masse, or Keli Masse as he was known, died in a car crash last month. Masse, 53, of Lancaster, New Hampshire, was behind the wheel of a Jetta…
Source: New York Times Published: June 19, 2000 ISLAND POND, Vt., June 18— Sixteen years after a swarm of Vermont troopers rousted 112 children from their beds in an effort to examine them for signs of abuse, some of those same children, now adults, returned today to this community to swear that they had felt…
This excellent, well researched article was published by Pacific Standard, a National Magazine, Award-winning, bimonthly based out of California. The whole article can be seen on Pacific Standard’s online magazine: here The following are the first paragraphs: Shuah Jones, 15, stuffed clothes under her bed blankets in the shape of a body, grabbed her diary…
Source: International Journal of Cultic Studies Volume 1, 2010, 27-48 Original title of essay (The Northeast Kingdom Community is short for Northeast Kingdom Community Church, name the 12 Tribes had previously): House of Judah, the Northeast Kingdom Community, and ‘the Jonestown Problem’ Downplaying Child Physical Abuses and Ignoring Serious Evidence Stephen A. Kent Department of…
Published on Apr 22, 2015 By a group of film makers/students in Ithaca, NY, USA
Posted on April 22, 2015 By Max Denning He stands behind the counter and calls out another order, the customer approaches and he hands her her tea with a smile. Emet Couch seems like your average small-town café barista. The 34-year-old has tattoos covering his arms, straggly hair back in a ponytail and a scruffy…
Source: Brattleborro Reformer Bellows Falls is home to one branch of the sect By Julia Scheeres Pacific Standard Magazine Posted: 09/04/2015 BELLOWS FALLS >> Shuah Jones, 15, stuffed clothes under her bed blankets in the shape of a body, grabbed her diary and Bible, and crept downstairs. Wearing a long blue linen skirt and…