Newshub: Gloriavale leader Howard Temple admits he keeps community from outside world

Newshub: Gloriavale leader Howard Temple admits he keeps community from outside world

By Caley Callahan |Newshub |

Gloriavale’s overseeing shepherd has admitted he separates his community from the outside world.

Howard Temple spent a tense second day on the stand in the Employment Court, which shortened the daily hearing to cater for the frail 82-year-old.

Gloriavale’s leader was back in the hot seat and straight into the firing line, quizzed about control of the current generation.

“You keep them separated because you know that is a contagion, because they just might enjoy the life, correct?” Glorivale leavers’ lawyer Brian Henry asked.

“They just might do that, yes,” Temple responded.

Further reading and video: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/02/gloriavale-leader-howard-temple-admits-he-keeps-community-from-outside-world.html