NSW Police has confirmed that a rural property in Bigga owned by the Twelve Tribes will remain a part of an ongoing investigation after the search concluded on Saturday.
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The investigation relates to allegations of unreported stillborn children.
However, police weren't prepared to disclose if anything had been found at the Bigga property.
Officers from the Blue Mountains Police Area Command executed crime scene warrants at two Twelve Tribes properties on Bigga Road, Bigga and Peppercorn Creek Farm on Remembrance Driveway (Old Hume Highway), Picton on March 3.
The search concluded at Bigga on March 7 and Blue Mountains Police Area Crime Manager, Detective Inspector Scott McAlpine said no arrests had been made.
However, he said the investigation was ongoing.
Detective Inspector McAlpine confirmed there were no members of the Twelve Tribes religious organisation at the Bigga property when police executed the crime scene warrant.
The search concluded at Picton on Thursday, March 5 and police confirmed nothing was located or seized.
Detective Inspector McAlpine couldn't comment if other properties were involved in the investigation, however, he said the investigation involved several police area commands.
The Hume Police District, which assisted the Blue Mountains Police Area Command with the search at Bigga, confirmed it wasn't investigating anything.
Detective Inspector McAlpine said Blue Mountains Police Area Command had led the searches after information was reported to them.
The Twelve Tribes is a registered religious organisation and runs cafes in the Blue Mountains and Picton.
The Picton cafe is called Common Ground.
The sect has been in operation in Australia since the 1990s with members numbering in the hundreds.
The Sydney Morning Herald penned an expose about the organisation in 2013, alleging that its members shun modern medicine.
Under the Birth, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1995, it is illegal not to report the births of stillborn children.
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