The religious community of the “Twelve Tribes” lived in monastery rooms near Deiningen (Bavaria). In 2013, the police took almost 30 children from the controversial “Twelve Tribes” religious community in the town.
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The missing girl in Bavaria is said to have turned up again. A police spokesman confirmed that, according to an email, she was with her birth parents, who are allegedly members of the “Twelve Tribes” sect.
E.An eleven year old missing in Bavaria from the Dillingen district is said to be with her birth parents. The foster father of the child had received an email from the sect “Twelve Tribes”, according to which the child was with the parents, said a spokesman for the Schwaben-Nord police headquarters on Monday in Augsburg. The authenticity of the email is now being checked, but no further search measures are planned for the time being.
The child had not returned from an afternoon jogging session to the foster parents’ house in Holzheim-Eppisburg on Saturday. Right from the start, the parents did not rule out the birth parents’ involvement in the disappearance, but numerous investigators also searched for the child. Search dogs and police helicopters were also involved.
The “Twelve Tribes” are a sect-like early Christian community. Children belonging to the group teach them themselves; in Bavaria they were allowed to do so until 2013 with the permission of the Ministry of Education. After allegations of mistreatment of the children, for example through corporal punishment, 40 children and young people were taken from the grounds of the “Twelve Tribes” in a large-scale police operation in 2013 and handed over to the care of the youth welfare office, including the girl who was now missing. The “Twelve Tribes” have since given up their seat in Bavaria and are now based in the Czech Republic.
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