Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan

Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan

What the Watchtower Doesn’t Want You to Know with Australian whistleblower Lara Kaput

Child labor, financial fraud, and eight types of modern slavery inside the Jehovah’s Witnesses

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Dr. Steven Hassan
Jun 29, 2026
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When Lara Kaput was eight years old, she cleaned bricks on a Jehovah’s Witness building site. She helped her father road-build on the church construction project. She did gardening and cleaning, and her childhood friends did this, and childminding too. None of it paid; very little of it optional. She did not recognize it as child labor at the time. Most…

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