A Gloriavale reunion years on: ‘She looked lifeless’

March 28, 2024: | Stuff | Amberleigh Jack | RECAP: Fair warning, watch the final episode of Escaping Utopia when you can afford to spend the rest of the day emotionally wrecked. It’s in part three that a sojourn to India reveals Kiwi Gloriavale members “trapped” in the Indian chapter. They’re forgotten by the outside world…

Authorities investigate allegations Gloriavale women trafficked to India

March 27, 2024: | RNZ | Tim Brown | Authorities are investigating concerns from a leading human rights lawyer that women from Gloriavale were trafficked to India and entered coerced marriages. Last night on TVNZ’s docuseries, Escaping Utopia, former Gloriavale members Theophila Pratt and Rosanna Overcomer travelled to India and met with Pratt’s sister…

Ex- Gloriavale couple share their unique love story

March 27, 2024: |Woman’s Day | Real Life |Profile: Jo Bailey Despite an extreme campaign to drive them apart, Rosie and Elijah Overcomer escaped to a new life together. It takes immense bravery to leave the confines of an insular, tightly knit community like Gloriavale. Especially when it’s the only life you’ve ever…

Escaping Utopia reveals ‘a whole other level of what the hell’ to Gloriavale

March 27, 2024: | The Spinoff | Anke Richter | The new docuseries reveals shocking new information about the global expansion of the cult – which somehow still has charitable status in New Zealand. When I visited Gloriavale for the first time to endure their last concert – a Disney-style variety show with overtones of…

Gloriavale’s commune in India comes to attention of NZ Police

March 27, 2024: | 1News | Ryan Boswell | Gloriavale’s commune in India has come to the attention of the New Zealand Police. The TVNZ documentary Escaping Utopia revealed the existence of the offshoot in a remote part of southern India, home to five Kiwi women, their husbands and children. In a statement…

New Zealand agencies assessing complaint of human trafficking, alleged rape at Gloriavale’s India commune

March 27, 2024: | Newshub | Michael Morrah | Warning: The following article discusses sexual assault. Police, Oranga Tamariki, foreign affairs and Immigration officials are looking into concerns about human trafficking, coerced marriages and alleged rape at Gloriavale’s sister community in India. It comes after two former members of the West Coast commune…

Authorities investigating whether women were trafficked from Gloriavale to India

March 27, 2024: | RNZ | Checkpoint | A leading human rights lawyer says authorities are investigating whether women were trafficked from Gloriavale and entered into forced marriages in India. Last night on TVNZ’s docuseries, Escaping Utopia, former Gloriavale members Theophila Pratt and Rosanna Overcomer travelled to India and met with Ms Pratt’s…