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NZ Herald Reporter: Current Gloriavale leaders were born there and lack perspective

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Publish Date
Fri, 27 May 2022, 4:57pm
Members of the Gloriavale community. (Photo / NZME)
Members of the Gloriavale community. (Photo / NZME)

NZ Herald Reporter: Current Gloriavale leaders were born there and lack perspective

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Fri, 27 May 2022, 4:57pm

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 some children used as employees from the age of six.

Sect leaders say they're now figuring out the difference between chores, farming duties appropriate for children and commercial work.

But NZ Herald Reporter Anna Leask told Heather du-Plessis-Allan the current leaders were born there and lack perspective.

“Do you know that having a child working in a pig farm for 17 hours a day – do you know that that’s dangerous and strenuous and not OK, or is that just what you did?”

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