: By Ryan Boswell | 1News | Gloriavale Christian School has been temporarily closed pending an investigation into allegations of abuse. The West Coast commune has been at the centre of accusations of sexual and physical abuse for decades, with police and Oranga Tamariki carrying out multiple investigations and laying several…
: By Tova O’Brien | Today Breakfast | Faithful Pilgrim’s son and former Gloriavale member, Zion, joined Tova on Wednesday morning. Zion’s father resigned in 2020 as principal of the Gloriavale school for failing to protect children in his care, and spoke about what this further resignation means to him and…
: By Ryan Boswell | 1News | Two senior leaders at the Christian commune of Gloriavale have stepped down from their roles. Fervent Stedfast has resigned from being a senior community leader, after he was accused of failing to handle employment matters during his time as Gloriavale’s financial controller. He had…
: 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…
: 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…
: By Ryan Boswell | 1News | A teacher at Gloriavale Christian School has had his practising certificate suspended for three months after endorsing a colleague he knew had sexually abused a child. Faithful Pilgrim was the principal of the school between 1995 and 2020. He has been a teacher for…
: by Dubby Henry | NZ Herald | The former principal of Gloriavale Christian School has been banned from leading a school for three years after failing to report a teacher’s sexual abuse of a 9-year-old girl. Faithful Pilgrim has admitted he “failed dismally as a principal” when he did not…
: Newstalk ZB – Canterbury Mornings With John MacDonald – 11/05/2022 Dr Liz Gordon is a former MP and is currently an educational researcher. For 25 years she has been pushing for the closure of the school within Gloriavale, and to make public education possible for its residents. She spoke to…
: By Joanne Naish | Stuff | A man working as a teacher at Gloriavale Christian Community who assaulted and verbally abused children in his care hopes to teach there again. Vigilant Standtrue, 39, pleaded guilty in the Greymouth District Court in November to three charges of assaulting three boys aged…