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Stuff – Gloriavale trust’s assets and profits up on last year

March 3, 2021: By Joanne Naish, Stuff – 03/03/2021 Gloriavale has reported a profit of almost $2.8 million and assets of $41m in its annual return to Charities Services. Gloriavale is a religious community based at Lake Haupiri on the West Coast. It has come under fire in recent years from former members…

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Janja Lalich: how normal people end up in cults like NXIVM

February 27, 2021: Saturday Morning | RNZ | It’s a myth that only “stupid weird crazy people” get tied up with cults, says cult expert Dr Janja Lalich. Idealism is what these people have in common, she tells Kim Hill. Dr Lalich knows from experience. In the ’70s and ’80s, she herself was a…

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NZ Herald (Premium) – Connie’s story: Gloriavale leaver who reported father to police opens home to him

February 20, 2021: By Alana Eriksen, NZ Herald – 20/02/2021 [NZ Herald Premium – pay to view content] She escaped from Gloriavale and told police of the years of physical abuse she and her younger sister endured at the hands of their father. But when it was his time to get out, she….…

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Gloriavale mum of 13 Sharon Ready makes new life as teacher in Greymouth after 50 years: NZ Herald

February 20, 2021: By Alanah Eriksen | NZ Herald | After 50 years inside Gloriavale, one of the community’s longest-serving members has her first job on the outside and is attempting to remove the leadership while still living within the compound. At age 64, mother of 13 Sharon Ready has challenged the norm…

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Stuff – Trio charged as investigation into alleged child abuse at Gloriavale continues

February 12, 2021: By Joanne Naish 12/02/2021 Two men and one boy have been charged as a result of an ongoing police investigation into child abuse at the Gloriavale Christian Community. A police inquiry into allegations of abuse at the West Coast community has been under way since July. Police, supported by Oranga…

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Stuff – Lawyer says legal proceedings seek to change culture that ‘breeds sexual predators’ at Gloriavale

February 11, 2021: A lawyer representing a former Gloriavale member in a civil case against the West Coast Christian community has said the proceedings are aimed at changing a culture where people are subjected to “slave labour” and sexual predators and victims are bred. Brian Henry made the comments during a procedural hearing…

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ODT – Former Gloriavale member launches civil court action against leadership trust

February 11, 2021: A former Gloriavale member who has launched a potentially landmark legal case to try and remove the leadership of the West Coast religious commune has got his first day in court today. Ex-member John Ready, who was banished from Gloriavale more than three years ago and who still has family…

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Stuff – ‘It could have killed me’: Gloriavale leaver struck by tree branch is struggling to support large family

February 2, 2021: By Joanne Holden – 02/02/2021 [Video from RNZ can be viewed in article link] A former Gloriavale man working to support his pregnant wife and 12 children after the family was pushed out of the isolated community about four months ago, suffered a setback when a tree branch crushed his…

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NZ Herald (Premium) – Former Gloriavale Member: ‘Sex was talked about at every meal’

December 23, 2020: By Kurt Bayer – 23/12/2020 NZHerald Premium – Full content can be viewed through paid NZHerald Premium GRAPHIC WARNING: SOME CONTENT MAY OFFEND Linda Feary was a lost solo mum when she found salvation in the form of the Gloriavale religious community in 1975. But through the 1980s, she claims…

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Teaching Council investigates former Gloriavale school principal: RNZ

December 22, 2020: Radio New Zealand The Teaching Council is investigating a former school principal at Gloriavale after allegations were made that he failed to keep children safe. The Gloriavale Leavers Support Trust complained about Faithful Pilgrim to the council in August. Trust spokesperson Liz Gregory said Faithful Pilgrim knew of offending by…

Stuff – Gloriavale trust’s assets and profits up on last year

Janja Lalich: how normal people end up in cults like NXIVM

NZ Herald (Premium) – Connie’s story: Gloriavale leaver who reported father to police opens home to him

Gloriavale mum of 13 Sharon Ready makes new life as teacher in Greymouth after 50 years: NZ Herald

Stuff – Trio charged as investigation into alleged child abuse at Gloriavale continues

Stuff – Lawyer says legal proceedings seek to change culture that ‘breeds sexual predators’ at Gloriavale

ODT – Former Gloriavale member launches civil court action against leadership trust

Stuff – ‘It could have killed me’: Gloriavale leaver struck by tree branch is struggling to support large family

NZ Herald (Premium) – Former Gloriavale Member: ‘Sex was talked about at every meal’

Teaching Council investigates former Gloriavale school principal: RNZ

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