A NEW REFUGE FOR WALKAWAYS

The Boston Globe Jordana Hatt 8/25/99 Lakeville – A nursing home that sits empty and ramshackle in farm country about 50 miles south of Boston is slated to open next summer as the nations first residential home for people who have left or escaped religious mind-control groups.The New England Institute of Religious Research, which says…

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Suffer the little Children

Byline: Chris Griffiths Special Report The Sunday Mail, August 22, 1999, pages 14, 15 Brisbane, Qld, Australia   A BIZARRE bible cult, which advocates beating children before they are old enough to walk, is recruiting in Queensland. Sources say it plans to set up at Maleny on the Sunshine Coast. Twelve Tribes Mission, also called…

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Twelve Tribes founder accused of racist views

The Asheville Citizen Times Dale Neal November 8, 1998 Twelve Tribes Community founder Elbert Spriggs’ controversial interpretation of slavery in the Scripture seems to provide ammunition for the anonymous fliers circulating around Asheville that criticize the Bible-based cult as racist. But a community member now in Asheville says the teaching is easily misunderstood, taken out…

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Extreme abuse recalled by mom

  SCRIBA – During the mid- 1980s, newspapers from coast to coast carried reports on court actions taken against the Northeast Community Church for the alleged beating of children as well as truancy. Ex-church members were coming forward with detailed accounts of how church children were being punished; stripped naked, boys and girls, from toddlers…

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The Community – Natasha’s Story

Source: Twelve Tribes-ex.com  Scholastic Scope March 9, 1998 Natasha was born into what most people would consider a cult, but what she came to call the “community.”  She grew up moving from town to town and house to home with her parents, living with dozens of other adults and kids who weren’t part of her…

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