This documentary is post-raid in Bavaria in September 2013 where the authorities took 40 children into state custody away from the 12 Tribes communities. It recaps the events that lead to the raid and brings us insight into the childtraining methods practised in this international group that call themselves the Twelve Tribes of Israel…
Translated from the German Children should be with their parents at Pentecost. The Twelve Tribes want to celebrate the feast of Pentecost because it is so important for them and their children. Therefore, they have requested that children who are currently in foster homes must now go home. Twelve Tribes in Klosterzimmern Seven families went…
Translated from the German The District Court of Ansbach has confirmed that some of the Twelve Tribes children continue to remain in foster care. In Nördlingen the courts have failed to render a decision. As far as the custody battle for the Twelve Tribes sect children, the district court Ansbach has decided that the children…
Source: Spiegel Online / Schulspiegel Original title: Leben nach der Sekte: “Ich habe keine Wurzeln und keine Kraft zu fliegen” Published: Monday 27 January 2014 Link: http://www.spiegel.de/schulspiegel/leben/zwoelf-staemme-wie-eine-aussteigerin-versucht-ins-leben-zu-finden-a-944962.html Pdf: No roots and no wings to fly After leaving the sect: no roots and no wings to fly She was born into a sect and whipped…
Die Welt January 24, 2014 Translated from the German The Twelve Tribes can no longer operate their own private school. They are a Bible-based sect who follows the teachings of their “Apostle” – Elbert Eugene Spriggs. The Twelve Tribes lost the chance to operate their private school because of unqualified “teachers.” The Bavarian Ministry of…
Translated from the German Spiegel Online January 24, 2014 The controversial sect of “Twelve tribes” can no longer operate a school because the sect lost a corresponding process before the Administrative Court of Augsburg. The sect had operated since 2006 a so-called supplementary school. As early as last November, the Swabian government of Bavaria…
Pro Medienmagazin October 10, 2013 Translated from the German Certain liberties were taken with the original German text in order to better describe Elbert Eugene Spriggs and the Twelve Tribes. Today nightmares and paralysis torment his life as the darkness is difficult to bear because the memories return just as fresh like the day it…
Pro Medienmagazin October 10, 2013 Translated from the German. Today nightmares and paralysis torment his life as the darkness is difficult to bear because the memories return just as fresh like the day it happened. The newspapers portrayed in its latest issues two former Twelve Tribes members who recounted a large part of their childhood…
Von Anika Taiber Translated from the German An RTL report shows that the Twelve Tribes uses flogging as an education method. The reporter (Wolfram Kuhnigk) documented the punishment with concealed cameras. The little girl with blue pants is crying loudly. The pain is hard to miss, but the woman with the baby on her arm…
An investigative journalist infiltrates the group and finds evidence of child abuse. This will lead to the raid early September 2013 where 40 children were taken into state custody.