Over a six-month period, a teacher's aide at a Palm Beach County charter school repeatedly sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl he met at church, according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office arrest report.

He threatened to tell her parents and church leaders about her behavior — and send them nude pictures of her — if she refused him, the report states.

A JW reports this comment:

“He attended the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in Denbigh and held weekly bible studies at his home in St Asaph.

He did regular ministerial work, (in his quest to befriend families with little girls)

We first met him when he and other witnesses were doing their field work/ministry in our area, calling from door to door.

June 2013 Rick Simmons replied to the appeal of the Jehovah’s Witnesses regarding the judgment against them in the Candace Conti trial. The document [read here] is quiet revealing regarding the basis and arguments of the appeal to the case launched by the Jehovah’s Witness legal staff. As you read the document you get a distinct impression about the religious legal team. This is of interest as in the years past it is a well known fact that lawyers for the JWs present themselves as being virtually invincible in the court. They give lectures to their members citing the Supreme Court rulings of the 1940’s as evidence of their legal prowess. In addition, they describe the fear of other attorneys and judges when they enter the court room and present this to their membership as something to be proud of.

Jonathan LeBaron reacts to the guilty verdict in courtroom. On Friday, jury recommended LeBaron face the dealth penalty. Judge Mark Jones will make the final determination.

By a vote of 11-1 a Key West jury on Friday recommended to Monroe County Circuit Court Judge Mark Jones that Jonathan Leo LeBaron should face the death penalty.

"Without mandatory reporting we don't feel that as ministers of religion that's our obligation to do that," Mr O'Brien said.

“However, the organisation would encourage the victim to report it and would co-operate fully with police, he said.”

Assault victim Stephanie Fessler, 24, of West York talks about overcoming the trauma of her attack during the Sexual Assault Awareness Month kickoff event sponsored by the YWCA of York. (Bill Kalina photo)

She looks pretty tough now, sporting big hoop earrings and a spiked, two-toned faux hawk.

But 20 years ago, Stephanie Fessler was a vulnerable 4-year-old girl told she was to blame for being sexually assaulted by a male congregation member at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses.

David Nelson former prominent elder (he gave major parts on Circuit and District Conventions) in the Phoenix area is now out of jail and free to go door to door in the Phoenix area Madison Park congregation territory. The interesting part is this recent update from a member of a nearby congregation.

When 67 year old Michael Norris landed at the Los Angeles International Airport on a direct flight from Costa Rica late last night, he knew Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Detectives were waiting for him.

Sheriff's Investigators, along with FBI and United States Customs agents, boarded the plane and took Norris into custody. Norris, who had a warrant for his arrest in Santa Barbara County on multiple counts of child molestation charges surrendered to authorities without incident. Norris was transported to the Santa Barbara County jail where he was booked and is being held on $200,000 bail.

Violinist Frances Andrade told a friend that giving evidence had felt like being 'raped all over again'.

A professional violinist killed herself after giving evidence at the trial of her former music teacher, who was found guilty of five counts of indecent assault on Friday.

Jurors in the case against Michael Brewer were not told of Frances Andrade's death until after they reached a verdict.

A PAEDOPHILE from Bridgwater has been jailed for 30 months for sexually abusing a young girl over a period of four years.

Dustin Gandley, 37, sexually assaulted the girl, who was aged under 13, a total of 11 times until she told her mother and he was reported to the police.

Taunton Crown Court heard that Jehovah’s Witness Gandley was reluctant to admit that more than one incident had taken place.

HARRISBURG — A group of state lawmakers announced plans Wednesday to reintroduce a bill that would remove the statute of limitations in cases of child sexual abuse.

Another bill would open a two-year window after a statute of limitations has expired for victims of child sex abuse to file civil lawsuits, said Reps. Mike McGeehan, D-173, and Louise Bishop, D-192.

The lawmakers have been frustrated that the Penn State/Jerry Sandusky and the Roman Catholic sex abuse scandals were not enough to move legislation out of committee last year.

Marci A. Hamilton is a professor of law at Cardozo School of Law, and the author of Justice Denied: What America Must Do to Protect Its Children, which was just published in paperback with a new Preface. Her email address is Hamilton02@aol.com.

Face-book comments.“ Michael Norris perpetrated these felonies while acting as an Elder in the Jehovah's Witnesses Carpinteria Congregation. Jehovah's Witnesses protect and harbor pedophiles. Michael Norris currently resides on a ranch 20 minutes outside of Quepos, Costa Rica. He regularly attends the Quepos English Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses in Costa Rica.”

A DANGEROUS sex offender is being sought by police following the attempted abduction of a 12-year-old girl in Velez-Malaga.

Police in Spain are trying to track down British national, Robert Edward Bill, on suspicion of grabbing the girl and pulling her inside his silver-grey Peugeot 106.

The incident happened near the town’s courthouse at 6.10pm on November 19 but the details have only just been released.

MURFREESBORO — A mother accused of raping her two children multiple times when she lived here more than 10 years ago was indicted by a grand jury this week on 38 sexually-based offenses.

Indictments issued against Angela Elizabeth Montgomery, now of Portland, Ore., show police have identified two new victims in the case, and that investigators have evidence Montgomery tried to coerce two witnesses during the Murfreesboro Police Department’s investigation into her alleged criminal activities.

GRESHAM – Unsealed search warrants in the case of suspected killer Jonathan Holt show police found child pornography and two handguns he had possessed.

More than 40 pages of documents were released Friday afternoon describing the investigation that eventually identified Jonathan Holt as the suspect in the murder of Whitney Heichel.

In 2001 the Silentlambs website was started to give a voice to Jehovah’s Witness victims of abuse. Silentlambs was the first voice to speak out on a public forum to help educate and let abuse survivors know they were not alone. The mission of Silentlambs is simply stated,

“We at Silentlambs welcome all persons regardless of race, religious affiliation or lack of religious affiliation, culture, economic background, gender or disability. Silentlambs remains neutral on religious issues and seeks to break down barriers that lead to the segregation of abuse survivors from different faiths and backgrounds. “

Today marks the tenth anniversary of the Silentlambs.March at the headquarters of Jehovah’s Witnesses. The March was a statement of how the Governing Body refuses to follow the very rules they require of children when they are molested.

If you read the '97 Watchtower cited below you are given the impression that a child molester who is “known” (that is, confessed) would never have “privileges” in the Congregation arrangement. Is that really the case? In a conversation with the Service Department it was plainly stated to me personally that a child molester could re-qualify again after a long period of time had passed. Was this a misstatement of Watchtower Policy? Read the form letter below sent out to congregations by the Legal Department in cases of “known” child molesters. Notice the paragraph at the end holds open the possibility of being used again after writing the Society first. So the question is who is lying, the Writing Department who wrote the '97 Watchtower, Service Department, or Legal Department? Either way you are being lied to.

MURFREESBORO — A Portland, Ore., woman accused of raping her two children when she lived here more than 10 years ago could face more charges as a Murfreesboro Police Department investigation unfolds.

Angela Montgomery, 50, was charged by Murfreesboro Police Detective Wayne Lawson in late August with the crime, after her two children gave the detective “detailed statements” about rapes and sexual assaults they had suffered at the hands of their mother when they lived on South Kings Highway.