------------------------------------------------------------------- F.A.C.T.Net, Inc. (Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network, Incorporated) a non-profit computer bulletin board and electronic library 601 16th St. #C-217 Golden, Colorado 80401 USA BBS 303 530-1942 FAX 303 530-2950 Office 303 473-0111 This document is part of an electronic lending library and preservational electronic archive. F.A.C.T.Net does not sell documents, it only lends them according to the terms of your library cardholder agreement with F.A.C.T.Net, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------- YANKEE, January 1985 "Who's Minding The Children In Island Pond?" It was a national news story last June when a squadron of police cars rolled into this small Vermont town because a judge had determined "the children are in danger." In the aftermath, the only certainty that emerges is that Island Pond can never be the same. by Yvonne Daley [A picture shows two police officers in uniform escorting a tall man in a white T-shirt, wearing his hair in a pony tail, with a small child on either side, holding hands with him, as the police escort them.] [A small picture shows the face of Mr Spriggs. The caption under it reads:] Elbert Eugene Spriggs, Jr., moved the Vine Church from Tennessee to Island Pond, Vermont in 1978. "The ultimate goal is for the children to be totally submissive . . . without any second thoughts or reasoning power of their own." "My daughter, Darlynn -- she's 13. She was told to stand with her hands on the windowsill, facing the main road. She was not to cry out, not to turn around . . . There were welts up and down her back, some nearly bleeding . . . from her neck to her ankles . . ." --former member of the Northeast Kingdom Community Church "Think of us as an army," says Abigail of the green eyes, beautiful Abigail who suckles a lovely infant and looks at you with complete candor. "All these things that people say against us come from those who deserted us. Would you expect those who commit treason, who leave their country, or defect from their army, to say good things, to tell the truth about the people they have deserted?" she asks. "Do you think I would beat my child?" --member of the Northeast Kingdom Community Church THIS IS A DISTURBING AND COMPLEX STORY IN A lovely and simple place where for generations life has been as straightforward as its name, Island Pond. It is a story where the line between heroes and villains, between right and wrong, are contort- ed and confused; a story, so far, without ending, unless it is ending enough to know that Island Pond will never be the same. Island Pond is a section of Brighton, Vermont, a small town in the northeast corner of the state just 20 miles from Canada, but almost everyone calls the town Island Pond for its most prominent feature, a serene glacial pond with a tree-covered island in the middle. About 1,500 people live here, a mix of old-time Yankee Protestants and Catholic French Canadians; solid, dependable loggers and farmers who live in old homes shaded by huge sugar maples, who take their leisure close to home -- fishing, canoeing, hunting. Not the sort of place where one expects trouble. People here say the trouble in Island Pond began in 1978 when several families and some local youths, mostly French- Canadian Catholics, were searching for other Cbristians to join them in a Bible study group. In their search for people of like mind, they met members of the Vine Church of Chatanooga, Tennessee. It had been founded in 1972 by Elbert Eugene Spriggs, Jr., who described himself as a former carnival barker, drunkard, and womanizer, and who based his teachings on a strict fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible. The Vine Church was at the time embroiled in controversy with Tennessee authorities over charges of truancy, child abuse, and the illegal practice of medicine. The Island Pond Chris- tians asked members of the Vine Church to join them in Ver- mont. Spriggs took the offer and moved his minisitry north. Other Island Pond residents joined, giving their homes, posses- sions, and businesses to the church. Within a few short years the church had grown to more than 400 members who ran numerous businesses, among them the Commonsense Restaurant, Bakery, and Health Food Store; a print shop and newspaper, a blacksmith ana horseshoeing op- eration; and house-restoration businesses. More than a third were natives of the South, and it was strange to hear their drawl here on the Canadian border. Tensions grew between the townspeople and the church. Many didn't like the fact that sect members lived communally, church women wore head cloths, and the men didn't cut their hair. Others deeply resented the inferences by church members that those living outside the church were damned and under Satan's spell. More than anything, however, the town and the church were divided over the children. There were recurrent stories of child abuse by church mem- bers and of untimely deaths of church children. Church mem- bers adamantly defended their right to discipline their children as they saw fit, quoting from the Bible, "Spare the rod and spoil the child." [Editor's note: This quotation is not from the Bible.] "If you leave a child to himself, to grow without any re- straint, then that child will be a shame to you," said one church elder. Said another, "We see the children as our hope of getting back to God. The ultimate goal is for the children to be totally submissive, obedient on the first command, and without any second thoughts or any reasoning power of their own." Discipline consists of strikes by parents, or any baptized elder who sees a transgression with a balloon stick on the bare bottom. In more severe cases a child is scourged -- stripped naked or to the underpants and hit repeatedly from head to soles with the stick, constantly being admonished to "accept your punishment." What the church calls "attitude prob- lems," disobedience, lying, and reasoning are the greatest sins in the eyes of Spriggs and his flock. The rod is used because, as one mother said, "The hands are for loving. We discipline out of love." Almost from the church's beginnings in Island Pond, Ver- mont officials, in various cases, had charged church members with truancy, practicing medicine without a license, illegal burial, zoning violations, tax evasion, and child abuse. With few exceptions they met with little success in proving these charges, often for lack of reliable witnesses. In early June of last year a petition for a search warrant was presented to Judge Joseph J. Wolchik, accompanied by nearly 400 pages of testimony, doctor's findings, and other material detailing alleged instances of child abuse, untimely deaths, illegal burial of children, illegal practice of medicine, and the movement of children from house to house, state to state, and even out of the country to avoid legal action. The material was gathered by Philip White, Orleans County State's Attorney, who, frustrated by the state's ineffectual prosecution of the church, resigned from his job for 22 days to work on the case as a private citizen. (The Essex County State's Attorney's office, which should have handled the case, was a part-time office and poorly equipped to prosecute the Island Pond church.) White presented Judge Wolchik with testimony gathered by ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Discipline consistsof strikes by parents or any baptized elder who sees a transgression. [Two pictures of men's faces are shown, one above the other. The caption over the pictures reads: Judge Joseph Wolchik (below) issued warrants based on testimony gathered by county attorney Philip White (bottom photo).] [A picture is shown of a mother affectionately hugging her child from behind the child, both smiling. The caption below says: Suzanne Cloutier of Orleans has helped more than 50 people leave the church.] "Would you like me to discipline her for you? She's playing with her food. She's a wild child and needs restricting." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- two Vermont state police officers who traveled the country interviewing former church members, Chris Braithwaite, edi- tor, publisher, and frequent reporter for The Chronicle, a week- ly newspaper covering the Northeast Kingdom, stepped for- ward with information he had gathered. White also brought Suzanne Cloutier, 33, a private citizen, nurse, and mother of four, who had helped more than 50 defectors and their children leave the church. She had spent more than two years challenging the church, supplying infor- mation to police and state officials. At one point she had spent days on end at the church com- munity, gathering information, arguing religion. She'd bring her two-year-old daughter Sarah with her. Once Sarah was playing with some popcorn, lining the kernels up on the table. "Would you like me to discipline her for you?" one of the church leaders asked Cloutier. "She's playing with her food. She's a wild child and needs restricting." The next day Wolchik got up at 5 A.M. and spent four hours reading the material. "Certainly this leads one to believe that not only has there been a particular problem for a long period of time at the Northeast Kingdom Community Church con- cerning excessive discipline to the point of assault on all chil- dren, but . . . there is, in my mind, no reason to believe that anything has in fact changed," was Wolchik's response. He granted the search warrants based on a belief, stated simply: "The children are in danger." The go-ahead for the raid was given that afternoon, and plans were formulated with great secrecy over the next week. Suzanne Cloutier drew a map of Island Pond for the police with the locations of church houses and a list of who lived in each. On June 22 the fog was just lifting at 6:30 A.M. when a squadron of police cars rolled into town. Filled with state po- lice officers and social workers, they arrived simultaneously at 19 homes. The warrants instructed the police to search those homes and take all children under 18 into custody, and to seize switches and wooden rods believed used to discipline the chil- dren. Officials wanted to detain the children for 48 hours and give them physical, psychological, and academic examinations to determine if they were being abused. As police gathered 112 children into vehicles, the children did not scurry away and hide, wail, or cry. In small and large groups they gathered with parents and sang and prayed, the children vowing, "Even if they take me away, I'll be back when I'm 18." In one church home a woman lay in bed nursing her eight- day-old child. She had returned home to the commune from the hospital just one day previously after giving birth by Cae- saican section. When police demanded her child she protested. She was told she didn't have to come along. They just wanted the child. "I'm nursing my baby," she said. "How do you intend to feed him if I'm not there?" Once in the courtroom, guardians were appointed for the children. "There was no escape possible," remembered one parent. "We would see our children taken from us, perhaps never to be returned, unless our God intervened." That night newscasts across the country informed people about the raid on Island Pond. In what to many was a shocking turnabout, the children were never examined for child abuse. District Judge Frank Mahady ruled the raid illegal and uncon- stitutional. He sent the children home and ordered the suppres- sion of all evidence seized by the state, including paddles, switches, and photographs the state had taken of the children. In a lengthy decision issued some weeks later, Mahady wrote, in part. "The state admits that it had no specific evidence of abuse . . . on the part of any of the individuals whose residences were searched . . . . It relies instead upon the mere assumed association of these residences with some otherr people for whom there was some reason to suspect such activities at some time in the past." He called the raid "a massive, albeit arguably well-motivated, fishing expedition which involved the inten- sive search of many private residences." More than ever people paused to ask, what went on at the Northeast Kingdom Community Church anyway? A RECENT SUNDAY IN ISLAND POND, BEAUTIFUL YOUNG women in long flower-printed skirts, peasant blouses, and head scarves, bearded men, their hair tied back in pony tails, and wholesome-looking children trek to the third floor of the church store and restaurant where weddings and church seminars are held. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [A picture is shown with an officer carrying sticks, with this title: State trooper carries balloon stick taken as evidence during the June 22 raid. [A second picture shows a man's face, with this title: District Judge Frank Mahady ruled the raid illegal and unconstitutional, "a fishing expedition." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There are no baby bottles, but lots of babies; no paper diapers, no necklaces, earrings, rings, makeup. Instead there are many Bibles dog-eared with use. Young girls carry notebooks in which they write down, not their exploits with young love or school activities, but passages from Scripture and excerpts from the preach- ing of the elders. A band is setting up in a corner -- piano, drums, bass fiddles and violins, flutes, a Celtic harp. When the music starts, voices lift together in joyous song to Yahsua, the word they use for Jesus, and church members join together in Jewish folk dances. Spontaneously, as a song ends or there's a break in the service someone ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [The face of a man is shown in a picture, with this caption:] David Jones, an elder of the Northeast Kingdom Community Church. "I was raised to think for myself and what did it get me -- years of living in sin before I came to see the way." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- will speak out, give witness. "Taking a rod and disciplining the child is a wonderful thing," elder David Jones preaches. "The Lord is bringing proper restraint to us." The children, sitting on the wood floor or lying next to their parents, barely move, except for the children's dances or, hours later, when they are allowed to go outside for a group walk. "Their learning is something given by God, by and through the Holy Spirit," church member Skip Pike told the state education commissioner during a truancy hearing some time ago. "School prepares a person for life in the material world. The Holy Spirit has other plans for members of the Island Pond Church," he said. Nothing is permitted outside of that. The children are not allowed to create or imagine -- fantasize is the word they use -- such as pretend that a piece of wood is a car or a boat. Jone says the reason is that according to the Bible, God will speak to the little children and instruct them to lead their parents to the kingdom of heaven. Their minds should not be filled with frivolous things. "Unless children are taught to obey on the first command, they will not hear God when He speaks to them the first time and, therefore, if that happens then they will not be able to lead their parents into the Kingdom of Heaven," he said at a church service after the raid. "Look at me. I was raised to think for myself and what did it get me -- years of living in sin before I came to see the way. The world's a mess with people thinking for themselves, satisfying their own needs. Homosexuality, AIDS, venereal disease -- these are signs of Satan in the world, the result of the permissiveness, the self-cen- teredness, the vanity of the past 40 years." Elbert Spriggs has not been seen in Is- land Pond in nearly a year. He is said to be in Navaronne, France, where he is estab- lishing another church. There arc churches in Dorchester, Massachusetts, a church-owned farm in Maine, an outpost in Nova Scotia, and scattcrings overseas. Wherever he goes, Spriggs commnunicatcs frequently to church members by comput- er as well as by letters written in the form of teachings which are passed along to the membership. The members believe Spriggs has divine communication with God. The elders of the church, even Charles "Eddie" Wise- man -- second in command -- and Rich- ard "Gladheart" Cantrell -- the healer and operator of the church clinic -- have to meet and pray together before they re- ceive divine inspiration, they say. Al- though revelations and prophetic dreams are given great validily by church mem- bers, changes in doctriue --- which is con- tinually evolving -- must be approved by the elders, then by Spriggs. Under the el- ders are deacons. who lead study groups, and the household heads, who assign tasks and control the finances of ther household.. People are assigned to households, and each household is usually responsible for one aspect of the work -- such as child care, gardening, baking, or carpentry. All money earned goes to the church. The children spend their days in the nursery located above the Commonsense Restau- rant. There are Bible studies at night, com- munion services on Saturday, and church "celebration" on Sunday. During this Sunday celebration Neil, a bald, toothless roamer from New Jersey announces he is leaving immediately to get his brother and bring him back to the commune "to live here with our new brothers and sisters where I have found love and acceptance like I've never had before." He is nearly in tears. Service ends with a group prayer and a laying of hands on the "walkers," those chosen that day to go out in search of converts. "Bless them, Father, and protect them," goes the prayer until it turns into something else as it grows and more members participate, many openly crying. There is a group meal. After a breakfast of unsweetened whole wheat rolls and switchel (hot vinegar and honey), everyone is hungry. Dinner is three whole wheat biscuits that didn't rise, covered with a pasty spinach sauce. "It's sinful to waste food," Abigail reminds a dawdling child. Abigail came to Island Pond from Georgia. She was raised there in a strict Baptist family in the belt buckle of the Bible belt, and attended a fundamentalist Christian college in Tennessee. She joined the church over her parents' objections when she turned 21. "My mother said I should follow God's command to obey my parents. (Church members) said my parents were wrong because they wanted me to go against Jesus, against what I knew was right." When the church moved to Vermont, Abigail was one of about 115 members who came to Island Pond. Like other female church members she wears a head scarf wrapped around her long hair. The scarf signifies submission to God and to men. "Jesus submits to God. Man submits to Jesus. Women submit to men. And children submit to their parents," she says. "We do it so there will be unity among God's people." There is a final prayer. "Give us the 100 farms that you have promised us," says one member. "Continue to hold the state in derision," another prays. "And see that our detractors and those who bear false witness against us repent and tell the truth," says another. DEBORAH HEFLIN DEFECTED from the Island Pond church in July 1980 with her daughter, Spring. Her story and the others that follow were detailed in the affidavits which Prosecutor White, Judge Wolchik, and Vermont Governor Richard A. Snelling used as justification for the raid. "I got in it when I was a kid in high school, and you just get brainwashed and don't realize what you're getting into," Heflin said. "I can see all that now, but at the time I didn't know and I worked all those long hours in those restaurants. Whenever I wasn't working my brains out -- like 14-15 hours a day straight -- I would have to go to meetings -- and I didn't have any protein -- and they were screaming at me until I thought I was going to go crazy. I mean it was a rough period, but I ended up by leaving." As she was fleeing Island Pond, Heflin told police, her husband, James Howell, ran her off the road and took their child back by force. Three years later Spring was found in Spain by an uncle. She was with Spriggs and other church members. Her passport shows that during the three years she had been in Germany, France, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Spain, then back to Portugal, crisscrossing the continent. Spring didn't want to talk about her time in Europe. In an emotional interview with a state police officer, she sometimes was talking about herself ("There were five children and they took one away. And that's me") and sometimes about the other little girl, Lydia Mattatall, who was taken overseas illegally also. Spring's job was to care for Lydia, an infant in diapers. Once she told a lie, she said. She said Lydia had not wet the bed when she had: "One day I told a lie and they wouldn't even let me eat for three days," she said. Sometimes Spring slept in a tent. She called her discipline being beat up: "They beat me up -- about 10 times a day." It was Elbert Eugene Spriggs, his wife Marsha, and a young woman named Kirsten Nelson who beat Spring up, she said. Dr. Grover Murchison of Montgomery, Alabama, who examined Spring Howell on March 30, 1982, said she had "multiple, long, narrow, discolored scar tissue areas over the . . . buttocks and posterior thighs -- the result of severe blows to this area with a rod-like instrument." "What did they do to Lydia, Spring?" asked the state police officer. "They beat her up, too." Lydia Mattatall was the youngest child of Juan and Cynthia Mattatall. Juan received custody of the couple's five children in a much-publicized child custody case in November 1982, after he left the church. But Lydia could not be found. Her mother said she had given Lydia to Spriggs who was said to be somewhere in Europe. Lydia's father followed leads around the world in an attempt to locate her. Several church defectors said that Spriggs wrote letters to the group from France detailing one disciplining session involving Lydia that lasted 12 hours. Lydia was found on October 8, 1983, with church members in Nova Scotia by Juan Mattatall and his attorney, Tom Donnellan. Mason Alexander of Benson, a 36-year- old welder and blacksmith, joined the church at his wife's urging several years ago. Within a few days of moving there, he began seeing things he did not approve of, especilaly child discipline. He said he also began to be pressured to turn over all his property to the church or remain forever "on the wrong side of the Lord." If he said anything against the church, his wife would report him. When he left, his wife and children stayed behind, but in July 1983 Alexander won a court order granting him custody of 11-year-old Ma- son, Jr. and 10-year-old Jeremiah. His wife had summer visitation rights. Mason Alexander brought the children back home late this past August from their two-month visit with their mother at Is- land Pond. He arrived home one week lat- er to find the FBI in his front yard. Jeremi- ah had called the operator and threatened the life of President Reagan. Jeremiah and Mason, Jr. sat the next day glued to the Saturday cartoons. No, they didn't miss TV in Island Pond, they lied. Jeremiah, surly, glared at his father for talking to the press, for having a report- er, an instrument of the devil, in his house. Mason said nothing, just laughed at his brother's remarks. The father stirred his coffee. He ex- plained that his wife was considered some- thing of a martyr in the church because she'd given up her children for Jesus. He didn't think his children were disciplined harshly at Island Pond. He speculated that the church wanted them to speak only good about the church and sent them out as emissaries to the world. He figured Jeremiah wanted to get him in trouble with the biggest authority he knew in the outside world, President Rea- gan. Hence, the threatening phone cull. " You see what I'm up against." he said. "Have you ever seen children hit with a rod at Island Pond?" "No," said Jeremiah. "What do you do there?" "Ride bicycle, fish, go swimming, hik- ing, stuff. It's great." "Do you want to go back?" "Yes, I will," said Jeremiah. "I'll go back and stay there when I grow up." "What about you, Mason?" "I want to be a reporter when I grow up," Mason said, smiling. After the June 22 raid was found illegal, the state put all its efforts into prosecuting the strongest case it had, charges of simple assault on a child filed by Roland Church who left the Island Pond church in May 1983 after three years of membership. Roland Church, a 43-year-old black- smith, accused Eddie Wisemare of beating his daughter Darlynn, 13, with a rod for seven hours during a discipline session in May 1983. The discipline left her with nu- merous welts on her body, according to Church's unsigned affidavit last year and a doctor's report. Roland Church told police he wasn't physically afraid when he left the church, but he was disturbed by the words said to him as he made plans to leave. He was told, "There is no salvation outside of the church now. You're going out from underneath God's protection. You will be anti-Christ. Your children will be back in the world, be- come whores," and so on. Just as Wiseman's trial on charges of simple assault were about to begin in mid- August of 1984, Roland Church retracted his statement, announced he would not testify against Wiseman, and as a final act, packed up his family, padlocked his home, and disappeared. The case was dismissed. A week later Roland Church appeared before a battery of TV cameras and re- porters to disclose that he had rejoined the sect. He sat shoulder-to-shoulder with Ed- die Wiseman and said, "I've repented and returned," his deep voice barely audible. "No one has pressured me to do this. I want to clear Eddie Wiseman." He said he had fabricated earlier stories of his daugh- ter's being beaten to justify his defection. He said at the time he left, the church elders wanted him to give up his job as blacksmith and spend more time with his family. "Horseshoeing had become my life. That really had become my God," he said. "It took a whole year before it reached my soul." Still later, Roland Church explained his decision in another way. He said that when he left the church he had made a pact with God. If the state did not bring action on the basis of his allegations within one year, it would be a sign to him that the church was the true body of God and that he should rejoin. Several days after this announcement, Attorney General John Easton announced the state would not appeal the dismissal of the child abuse cases stemming from the raid on the Island Pond church sect. The case was dropped. "Praise the Lord," said the members of Northeast Kingdom Community Church. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Here a picture of a bearded man in a plaid flannel shirt is shown. Under the picture: "Roland Church left the Island Pond Church in May 1983, testifying his daughter had been beaten. In August 1984 he recanted." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The collapse of the state's effort to ex- amine the children has not changed Su- zanne Cloutier's mind, nor dampened her convictions. "I'm disappointed that the state fumbled the ball. The attorney gener- al's office has never taken this seriously, never been aggressive, enough. They used me to get their information, and they bun- gled the job. My question to those guys Snelling, Hayes, Easton, Judge Mahady, all of them -- my question is "Can you sleep at night?" Now she is putting all her energy into trying to warn the people of Cape Sable, Nova Scotia, where the church is setting up a new community. She addressed a group of townspeople there last fall and took with her the affidavits that Judge Ma- hady dismissed. "Island Pond never knew what it was getting into," Cloutier says. "The people in Cape Sable have the advantage of know- ing what's ahead of them." Since the raid, the church has held sev- eral open meetings in Island Pond to try to explain themselves to an angry communi- ty. If anything, the sessions, which have been marked by emotional outbursts, charges and countercharges, have left the town more divided than ever. Vickie Gutherie, who runs the Osborne Hotel and Pub in Island Pond, says the Northeast Kingdom Community Church has ruined the town. "They should just leave, go away, leave us alone. They're brainwashed. They come here and work for nothing. It's slave labor, that's what it is. I feel an evil presence from them." Scott Meredith, a local laborer, says that the townspeople are so angry about the state's foiled raid that he's afraid they might take matters into their own hands. lt's not just religion, but money as well, explains Meredith. "Because the church members work for nothing, they can un- derbid us on jobs, all kinds of things. They even get government contracts for work we always did." It's not that the members of the church won't talk. You can discuss the Bible, growing carrots, children, nuclear war, education, abortion, anything. The re- sponses will be the same -- quotes from the Bible and the words, "Let me speak to you from my heart," accompanied by a certain gesture, a movement of the hand to the breast and out, gracefully, as if opening a book and sharing the contents, which are variations on a theme of submission and acceptance. Talk to the next person, the words and gestures will bc repeated. And repeated. And repeat. ================================================================= If this is a copyrighted work, you are acknowledging by receipt of this document from FACTNet that on the basis of reasonable investigation, you have not been to obtain a copy elsewhere at a fair price, and that you are and will abide by the following copyright warning. 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