Source: http://www.oocities.org/realidadebr/rn/seitas/s100401.htmSÉRGIO DÁVILAPublicado no Jornal Folha de São Paulo em 10/04/2001 A empresa Sundance, do ator Robert Redford, dona do festival de cinema de mesmo nome e reconhecida internacionalmente por suas preocupações ambientais e humanitárias, vendia desde 1999 móveis fabricados pelo movimento religioso Doze Tribos, que promove o trabalho infantil gratuito. O grupo religioso isolacionista,…
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…
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: The Burlington (Vermont) Free Press From The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, June 18, 2000 By Nancy Bazilchuk ISLAND POND — John Dodge, 23, looked a little out of place at the Twelve Tribes church’s community gathering Saturday. An Island Pond native, he grew up calling the church members “Moonies,” threw pennies on the roofs…
Humanity Presse February 26, 2000 No one knows how many minors live in this community of Sus, France. Since the investigation, the social workers intervene for a few of the children. On April 4, 1997, Raphael Ginhoux died at the age of 19 months in the Angous farm near the Pyrenees. The child weighed 10…
The Buffalo News Janet Gramza April 27, 1997 When the phone call finally came, Laurie Johnson’s heart soared. After an eight year search for her two sons, authorities had found them in a small town in Florida. But the moment she had prayed for held little joy. When she finally met them, her sons refused…
Cops wait for fugitive Source: The Winnipeg sun-1993 The Winnipeg Sun, Friday, April 2, 1993 By Donna Carreiro – Sun Staff Writer Three members of a controversial religious cult which moved into Winnipeg this week are wanted across North America on child abduction charges, The Sun has learned. And police suspect at least one of…
The Chronicle March 23, 1983 Juan Mattatall, a defector from the Northeast Kingdom Community Church of Island Pond [now known as “Twelve Tribes] who is trying to get his own three year old daughter back from Europe in the custody of cult leader Eugene Spriggs, has reportedly helped bring another defector’s child home from Spain….
The Boston Globe Magazine Sally Johnson March 12, 1993 Ten years ago, Jeanie Swantko left her job as a Vermont public defender to join Island Pond’s radical community “The Twelve Tribes.” Today, she uses her legal skills to champion for the church against its critics. Jeanie Swantko was asleep in an upstairs room in a…
The Daily News (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Rob Roberts April 1, 1992 A Kentville judge issued a Canada-wide warrant yesterday for the arrest of parents’ rights activist Edward “Isaac” Dawson, who has disappeared with his son in the midst of a custody battle. Provincial court Judge Jean-Louis Batiot issued the warrant after a request from regional…