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…
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…
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 a.m. looking for…
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…
Letter to Community Member, After reading the letters of Obadiah to Roger and Joellen Griffin, I can’t help but express my disappointment with the narrow minded judgments based on flawed (at best) teachings of Yoneq concerning those who leave the Community. Why didn’t you also publish the letters that Roger and Joellen wrote to you? …
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…
Canadian lived with religious group in SC Santa Cruz County Sentinel/February 4, 1994 By Steve Perez Santa Cruz–A Canadian man suspected of taking his son from the child’s mother and bringing him to a religious community was arrested by federal agents Thursday morning at one of the group’s homes in Santa Cruz. His 11-year-old son…
The Daily News (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Sherri Jackson 1993 A Berwick man was sentenced to five months in jail for ignoring a court order that allowed his former common-law wife access to their son Michael. Edward Frank Dawson, 40, a member of the Bible-based Twelve Tribes cult, seemed stunned by the sentence, handed down by…
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…