Exclusive Brethren Suicide - Jared Earl

Jared was forced out of the family home and then suffered the pain of unwanted marital separation followed by divorce. Eventually Jared managed to find work in a fish and chip shop in Canberra. While working there, he met a woman called Barbara. She had also grown up in the Exclusive Brethren, but had left with her parents many years earlier. There was an immediate link and the two soon decided to marry.

A friend of Barbara records:

"She spoke very fondly and appreciatively of Jared and of the three happy years she had with him. I understand that she met Jared after he had been put out of the Exclusives. They met while working together in a fish and chip shop in Canberra."

"She said that Jared was always carrying great sadness and pain as to being separated from his first wife (whom I also knew) and his children. He was very troubled by it all and cared for them."

Jared was more deeply troubled than even his new wife realized. As these pages testify, the pain and anguish caused by the vicious Exclusive Brethren doctrine of Separation can be deadly:

"Nevertheless, it was a great shock to her when she received a knock on the door one day and the Police advised her that Jared's body had been found hanging from a tree in a nearby recreational forest."