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Rosanna Overcomer, Part 1: Childhood & Childbirth Inside Gloriavale

June 5, 2024: | Outside of Sunday Podcast | Gloriavale is a reclusive and abusive ‘Christian’ community in the remote South Island of New Zealand. In the first part of our conversation with Rosanna Overcomer, who was born into the community, Rosie shares what her childhood looked like inside Gloriavale. We discuss schooling,…

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Police consider charging Gloriavale leaders over failing to act over sexual abuse

May 30, 2024: | The Press | Joanne Naish | Police are considering whether to criminally charge Gloriavale leaders with failing to protect children from sexual harm. Police became aware of intergenerational harmful sexual behaviour at the Gloriavale Christian Community in 2015, a Coroner has heard. Detective Senior Sergeant Kirsten Norton said Gloriavale’s…

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Gloriavale inquest: Family pays tribute to son, brother in court

May 24, 2024: | RNZ | Niva Chittock | The final video played in the inquest into a Gloriavale man’s death was a tribute to his life, compiled by his family. Sincere Standtrue died in Christchurch Hospital in November 2018, after being found unresponsive in the paint shop at Gloriavale Christian Community 10 days…

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Gloriavale inquest: Brother’s outbursts due to way he was controlled – witness

May 24, 2024: | RNZ | Niva Chittock | Warning: This story discusses suicide. A former Gloriavale member has told an inquest into her brother’s death that sometimes “it can feel easier to die” than to try and leave the West Coast Christian community. Sincere Standtrue, who was 20, was found unresponsive in Gloriavale’s paint…

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Sincere Standtrue’s Gloriavale inquest: Sister of man who died says leader did not want WorkSafe notified

May 23, 2024: | RNZ | Niva Chittock | A sister of Gloriavale man Sincere Standtrue says a community leader told her family just hours after he was found unresponsive that he did not want WorkSafe involved. Rose Standtrue has given evidence at the Greymouth inquest into the 20-year-old’s death in Christchurch Hospital’s intensive care…

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Gloriavale inquest: Sincere Standtrue was bullied, mocked, shamed, beaten most of his life – sister

May 23, 2024: | NZ Herald | Anna Leask | WARNING: This story deals with suicide. Please see below for help and crisis information. A coroner has been told a young Gloriavale man was bullied, mocked, beaten, excluded and “looked down on” before his sudden death. Sincere Standtrue was deaf and had other physical and…

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Gloriavale inquest: Man often bullied, shamed and isolated before death, sister says

May 23, 2024: | RNZ | Niva Chittock | Gloriavale man Sincere Standtrue was often isolated, shamed, bullied and beaten at the West Coast Christian community, his sister says. Rose Standtrue has given evidence at the Greymouth inquest into the 20-year-old’s death in Christchurch Hospital’s intensive care unit, 10 days after he was found unresponsive…

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Gloriavale inquest told man may have been a victim of harmful sexual behaviour

May 22, 2024: | RNZ | Niva Chittock | A senior police detective has told an inquest into the death of the Gloriavale man that it is believed he was subject to harmful sexual behaviour in the Christian community. Sincere Standtrue, who was 20, died in November 2018 following nine days in Christchurch Hospital’s intensive…

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Toxicologist tells Gloriavale inquest he could not rule out possibility man was huffing paint

May 21, 2024: | RNZ | Niva Chittock | A toxicologist has told a court he cannot rule out the possibility that a Gloriavale man may have been huffing paint and other chemical fumes. Sincere Standtrue, who was 20, died in Christchurch Hospital following nine days in the intensive care unit in 2018.…

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Gloriavale inquest told paint shop workers ‘not adequately protected’

May 21, 2024: | RNZ | Niva Chittock | The first witness in the inquest into the death of a Gloriavale man says the community’s paint shop where he worked failed to consistently uphold health and safety standards. Sincere Standtrue died aged 20 in Christchurch Hospital in November 2018, following nine days of…

Rosanna Overcomer, Part 1: Childhood & Childbirth Inside Gloriavale

Police consider charging Gloriavale leaders over failing to act over sexual abuse

Gloriavale inquest: Family pays tribute to son, brother in court

Gloriavale inquest: Brother’s outbursts due to way he was controlled – witness

Sincere Standtrue’s Gloriavale inquest: Sister of man who died says leader did not want WorkSafe notified

Gloriavale inquest: Sincere Standtrue was bullied, mocked, shamed, beaten most of his life – sister

Gloriavale inquest: Man often bullied, shamed and isolated before death, sister says

Gloriavale inquest told man may have been a victim of harmful sexual behaviour

Toxicologist tells Gloriavale inquest he could not rule out possibility man was huffing paint

Gloriavale inquest told paint shop workers ‘not adequately protected’

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