: | RNZ | Checkpoint: Lisa Owen |Â The leadership of Gloriavale is publicly repenting…issuing a statement apologising for failing to protect sex abuse victims and exploited workers. A landmark court decision recently ruled that three former residents of the commune were employees from age six doing strenuous difficult and sometimes…
: By Marine Lourens and Rachael Comer – Stuff – 27/05/2022 • The leadership of the Gloriavale Christian community has released a statement apologising for not protecting members against labour exploitation and sexual abuse. • The leaders detailed measures put in place to prevent this from reoccurring in the future. •…
: By Jean Edwards | RNZ | The trust supporting former members of the reclusive Gloriavale community is surprised the former Christian School principal has not been struck off the register for twice endorsing a teacher he knew had sexually assaulted a nine-year-old girl. Faithful Pilgrim has instead been suspended from…
: Michael Morrah – Newshub – 27/05/2022 Gloriavale’s leaders have issued an unprecedented apology – but it’s been met with caution from former residents. They wrote a letter admitting they failed to protect victims of sexual abuse and labour exploitation, and they’re promising change. Gloriavale’s known for conducting its affairs privately.…
: Newstalk ZB – Heather Du Plessis Allan Drive – 27/05/2022 Warnings it’s far past time Gloriavale asks the outside world what is and isn’t appropriate. The secretive Christian community has apologised today. Several members have been charged for child and sexual abuse crimes and the Employment Court has just ruled…
: RNZ – 27/05/2022 Gloriavale’s leaders have offered a public apology for failing to protect victims of labour exploitation and sexual abuse. The apology comes in the wake of multiple scandals surrounding the reclusive West Coast Christian sect. Just this week Silver Fern Farms pulled out of commercial agreements with the…
: By Anna Leask | NZ Herald | Gloriavale’s leaders have issued an unprecedented public apology today – saying they “denounce any and all offending that has occurred” at their secretive Christian community. “These actions are abhorrent to us,” they said in a statement sent to the Herald. “It is a…
: By Ryan Boswell – 1News – 27/05/2022 Gloriavale’s leadership has issued an apology to current and former members, saying it “draws a firm line in the sand between the past and the future”. The West Coast commune has been at the centre of accusations of sexual and physical abuse for…
: RNZ | Morning Report | A former Gloriavale Christian School principal has been suspended from teaching for three months for twice endorsing a teacher he knew had sexually assaulted a nine-year-old girl. Faithful Pilgrim was sanctioned for serious misconduct by the Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal for commending Just Standfast as being…
: By Joanne Naish | Stuff | The principal at the Gloriavale Christian School has been suspended for serious misconduct. A decision by the New Zealand Teachers’ Disciplinary Tribunal says Faithful Pilgrim was a teacher at the school for 45 years and was principal from 1995 to 2020. It found that…