How Inside Edition Went Undercover to Expose Child Labor at Commune

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Published 2018-06-07

What does it take to go undercover to expose injustices? Inside Edition producer Zara Lockshin was assigned to investigate claims of child labor at businesses owned by a religious sect called the Twelve Tribes. She discovered children as young as 6 years old working on the group's farm in Cambridge, N.Y. Lockshin believes her "friendly, open-minded" personality and her age made her a good fit for the assignment. InsideEdition.com's Leigh Scheps (twitter.com/LeighTVReporter) has more.

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All Comments (21)

@QwakeyQwack 4 years ago

My dad: ”Hey, can you please take out the trash?” Me: *Calls inside edition*
@sophiea5052 6 years ago

If my mom told me to wash the dishes could I call inside edition to have them view it as child labor
@paulelliott4590 4 years ago

Anyone who owns a farm, their child work on the farm.
@semsudinpoplava733 3 years ago

What the hell This is straight up just kids helping their parents Every other day for me
@ogkush1144 4 years ago

This women definitely didnt do chores as a child 😂😂😂
@sphporsche355 4 years ago

My lord,this is just a weekend at my grandma's house
@mattm.6969 4 years ago

Just some farmers doing work with their kids: ... Zara: I WAS SCARED THAT THEY WOULD DESTROY THE EVIDENCE.
@ElectroSwingingIt 3 years ago

THIS AIN’T CHILD LABOR LMFAO THIS IS JUST KIDS HELPING OUT ON A FARM
@coryf725 6 years ago

Isn't that what kids who live on a farm do?
@jonathanLara1989 4 years ago

Child labor? Inside edition take a trip to Mexico,Africa,Asia and come back and give us a real true child labor...
@RoscoeS-zo2cg 3 years ago

How terrible, kids working outside instead of sitting in front of a screen.
@UNKNOWN-rv7st 3 years ago

I started actually working on a farm and getting paid for it when I was 7. I did it voluntarily. People who have never done a day of hard work in there lives. If kids see you working the wanna do what the grown ups do help out. I was leveling the ground for a above ground pool and my 5 year old niece came out and helped. She was so proud of herself and smiling
@Itzarzky 4 years ago

She’s acting like her life was at risk like she was in Iraq.
@punkybruster1084 6 years ago

Kids can work on farms with their families, but making them work to long or with heavy objects that's a different story.
@nicholaslee4669 3 years ago

Real undercover spy: *could be found out and killed* This lady: “I could have been potatoed to death”
@hipbro3484 3 years ago

Inside Edition: *Sees kids helping their families* "OMG, CHILD LABOR!!!"
@FudgieRocks 4 years ago

“I don’t know what they would do if they discovered I was a journalist...” You sound like you’re secretly undercover in a cult or something.
@gabriellejohnson3006 5 years ago

....i didnt know chores were considered to be child labor...😐🤦🏾
@SWeeks698 3 years ago

I've done stuff like that every summer. It's called helping your family.
@fuelknightmare 3 years ago

This isn't even child labor, this is teaching children responsibility and discipline plain simple.