Gloriavale inquest: Brother's outbursts due to way he was controlled - witness
A former Gloriavale member has told an inquest that sometimes "it can feel easier to die" than to try and leave the West Coast Christian community.
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A former Gloriavale member has told an inquest that sometimes "it can feel easier to die" than to try and leave the West Coast Christian community.
Sincere Standtrue was often isolated, shamed, bullied and beaten at the West Coast Christian community, his sister says.
Their family was also not allowed to say Sincere Standtrue was in heaven at his funeral two weeks later, his sister says.
Sixty-one young people were involved in harmful sexualised conduct around the time of Sincere Standtrue's death, a senior police detective says.
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