Source: CultEducation (originally from Courier Mail Australia) Courier-Mail (Australia)/December 29, 2001 By Chris Griffith and Amanda Watt An anti-semitic cult whose US parent has a court history of child abuse and abduction is selling food and refreshments at this year’s Woodford Folk Festival. Known as Twelve Tribes Mission and the Messianic Communities, the cult advocates…
“When there is a stubborn child you should shorten the child’s life?” Whether is a stubborn child you should shorten the child’s life. It limits the family. – Training up our children in the way they should go Yesterday I was down at the river and Yochanan (Haggai’s son) was swimming and I saw that…
Boston Herald September 11, 2001 Laurel J. Sweet At a community forum to refute allegations from former members about his religious sect’s practices in a Herald series on Twelve Tribes last week, Eugene “Yoneq” Spriggs boasted of reforming homosexuals and whacking children with wooden rods to keep them in line. “What do you think is…
Boston Herald Dave Wedge September 5, 2001 A New York man, distraught over his friend’s total immersion in the Twelve Tribes, has set up an “underground railroad” to help teens flee the allegedly abusive, mind controlling cult. “When we pick these kids up, they’re afraid,” Kevin Coughlin said of the former members he has helped…
Source: Boston Herald September 5, 2001 Dave Wedge While his loyal followers toil in shops and factories or work the fields for the common good of the Twelve Tribes, the controversial cult’s elusive leader Elbert Eugene “Yoneq” Spriggs travels the globe, bedding down in palatial homes in southern France, Brazil and Cape Cod, former members…
New York Post Jeane Macintosh April 8, 2001 For some children of the Twelve Tribes, the beatings begin in infancy and sometimes don’t stop until they’re old enough to have kids of their own. They start working as young as 2 or 3, and by 13 or 14 are expected to quit home-schooling to work…
NY Post Jeane MacIntosh April 8, 2001 A Robert Redford catalog company unwittingly sold products made from a firm that uses child laborers – all members of a controversial upstate cult – to make some of its products. The children are part of Twelve Tribes, a racist, isolationist Bible-based cult that believes in beating kids…
NYPost.com Andy Geller April 8, 2001 Elbert Eugene Spriggs was working in a carnival in Chattanooga, Tenn., when he says he heard the Lord ask him, “Is this what I created you for?” The year was 1969, and the answer was no. Within three years, the former high-school guidance counselor had created the Twelve Tribes,…
MSNBC.com March 13, 2001 Beauty company Estee Lauder could be facing another ugly controversy. The cosmetics giant recently angered actors when Liz Hurley crossed Screen Actors Guild picket lines to do commercials. Now it seems the company was unwittingly using child labor. What’s more, the alleged young workers were apparently part of a group that…
Source: Cult News December 22, 2000 Rick Ross Since the death of Jerry Garcia in 1995 another band called the Phish seems to have filled the void that the Grateful Dead left behind. “Phish heads” have largely replaced the cult following of the “Dead heads” that once wandered nomadically from concert to concert devoted to…