: | The Press | Joanne Naish | A victim of child sex abuse in Gloriavale is calling for the Government to take action to protect children in the Christian community, saying the court has proved multiple times that it “isn’t a safe place”. Virginia Courage spoke after the sentencing of…
: | Greymouth Star | Gloriavale Christian Community’s elderly spiritual leader Howard Temple, who is facing over 20 historic charges of sexual off ending, will be briefly allowed back at the community’s Lake Brunner satellite site this Sunday. An application to vary the 83-year-old’s bail conditions was filed with Judge Stephen…
: | Greymouth Star Online article | A 32-year-old Gloriavale father of seven was yesterday sentenced to home detention over “stealthful’’ sexual offending committed 16 years ago inside the isolated Christian community at Lake Haupiri. Ready Standtrue, who was born and raised at Gloriavale, was 16 and 17 years old when…
: | Greymouth Star | Subscription only: Greymouth Star A former Gloriavale man admitted damaging Blaketown’s ‘pink church’ — a gay celebration — when he appeared in the Greymouth District Court yesterday. Redeemed Standfast, 19, who left the Gloriavale Christian Community a year ago, was supported in court by his father…
: Joanne Naish | The Press | A woman who was sexually violated as a child by a predator in the Gloriavale christian community says she has carried the trauma silently for too long. Jonathan Benjamin, 58, was found guilty of 11 charges of sexual offending against four girls and not…
: Inside Government NZ | Public Service | NZ Police has welcomed the verdicts returned in Greymouth District Court yesterday, where a man has been found guilty for multiple historical sexual offences at Gloriavale. A 58-year-old man was found guilty of 11 charges of sexual offending against four out of five…
: | RNZ | A 58-year-old man has been found guilty of multiple historical sexual offences at Gloriavale. The verdicts against Jonathan Benjamin, delivered in Greymouth District Court, relate to 11 charges of sexual offending against four people at the Christian community between 1986 and 2017. Benjamin, who had already admitted…
: Raphael Franks | NZ Herald | A 58-year-old man has been found guilty of committing sexual offences at reclusive Christian community Glorivale, some of which were historical charges dating back to the 1980s. The Greymouth District Court found the man guilty on 11 recent charges today and referred him for sentencing next…
: Joanne Naish | Stuff | Gloriavale leaders have been refused the chance to appeal on four grounds against anEmployment Court case that ruled a group of women were employees when they worked inthe community.However, the Court of Appeal says it needs more information before it decides whether togrant leave to…
: Joanne Naish | The Press | Jonathan Benjamin, 58, is facing a jury trial in the Greymouth District Court for offending that allegedly happened in the Gloriavale Christian community from 1989 to 2017 at Haupiri and Springbank, the cult’s original site at Springbank, near Christchurch. He has pleaded not guilty…