July 11, 2023 /
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Sources: Unadfi 11/07/2023, South-West & France Bleue, 22/06/2023 Thursday, June 22, the Pau court looked into two cases involving ten parents members of the Twelve Tribes community, none of whom were present in the courtroom. They were prosecuted for illegal schooling and “forgery and use of forgery in registering their children for home education”. A…
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December 24, 2022 /
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June 23, 2018 /
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I have a letter for you and I hope you read it all the way to the end…. I first wrote this 12 years ago while I was in Meadow Haven with Bob and Judy Pardon as a resident in the only long term residential exit counseling program for cult victims in the world. http://meadowhaven.org/…
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June 8, 2018 /
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Source: News.com.au by James Weir, 8 June 2018 THEIR beliefs have attracted attention from authorities globally. On this cold night, we went inside the home of the controversial sect. A TAMBORINE rattles and feet stomping on timber floorboards echoes down the dark garden path of this strange, old house. Don’t bring anything, just yourself, were…
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November 11, 2016 /
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Spriggs Receives Unparalleled Adulation, Praise and Position “It grieves me that I was not connected or attached to Yoneq (Spriggs) ….Dullness prompted me to call you, when Yoneq should have been the one I sought wisdom from….All this stuff about Ayal’s baptism came about without Yoneq’s approval or knowledge of what was happening!” “Yoneq wants…
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October 8, 2016 /
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What does the community really teach about lying? We went there to intentionally evade the truth. Now I realize how wrong that was. – Spoken by Former member Here, we are hoping to ‘lay low’ with the school authorities until we all move together to Lindach. Somehow someone reported that we have children here who…
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July 17, 2016 /
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Source: The daily beast Luke O’Neil 07.17.16 2:01 PM ET According to ex-members of Twelve Tribes who spoke to The Daily Beast, children are regularly beaten and leaders preached “slavery is necessary.” Now, an escapee has taken over the Facebook page of the Plymouth bakery run by the commune so he can broadcast its ills….
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June 30, 2016 /
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Source:Thought Catalogue.com 30 June 2016 Shahida Arabi 509 Comments Toxic people such as malignant narcissists, psychopaths and those with antisocial traits engage in maladaptive behaviors in relationships that ultimately exploit, demean and hurt their intimate partners, family members and friends. They use a plethora of diversionary tactics that distort the reality of their victims and…
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September 5, 2015 /
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The following quotes were taken from Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited, Narcissus Publications, Prague and Skopje, 2003, written by Sam Vaknin, PhD. In the original quotes Narcissist, Narcissism or some facsimile appeared. However, Dr. Vaknin gave permission to change these to read “cult”, “cult leader” or the like. From our perspective of working twenty years…
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March 24, 2015 /
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source: CBC Manitoba 24 March 2015 Fear the mind abuse, not the physical abuse, says former leader with religious group A former leader in the Twelve Tribes religious group said it wasn’t the threat of beatings that kept him in his place. It was the threat of death if he didn’t. And it’s that kind…
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