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Sexually assaulted by her brother at a young age, Lisa Blais is the "voice of the voiceless" as part of the collective action she launched on behalf of all Quebec victims of alleged sexual assault of members of the Witnesses of Jehovah to which she and her family belonged.

Religious group accused of abandoning victims of sexual assault and protecting abusers

Sarah Brooks was 17, riding in her dad’s pickup, when she told him.

She had always been a daddy’s girl, she said. She was a tomboy growing up, playing with the boys, and later, when she could wield a wrench, working on cars with her dad.

After some detours in life, she would work as a welder. She liked working with her hands, and she and her dad were close.

HELENA, Mont. — The Jehovah's Witnesses must pay $35 million to a woman who says the church's national organization ordered Montana clergy members not to report her sexual abuse as a child at the hands of a congregation member, a jury ruled in a verdict.

A judge must review the penalty, and the Jehovah's Witnesses' national organization — Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York — plans to appeal.

The governing body of the Jehovah’s Witness church received another rebuke this week by a state appeals court for “obstinately” refusing to turn over internal documents about knowledge of church leaders who have been accused of sexually abusing children.

What should Jehovah’s Witnesses do if they think someone they know has sexually abused a child, but no one was there to see it?

Nothing.

So say leaders of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, who instruct elders not to take action against a member of the religion accused of child sexual abuse without a confession or at least two witnesses to the crime.

A Santa Ana man was convicted Friday of several felony counts for molesting young girls that he met through his Jehovah’s Witness congregation.

Jose Luis Aguilera, 42, was found guilty of four counts of lewd acts on a child younger than 14, but jurors deadlocked on one count of kidnapping for child molesting and four counts of lewd acts on a child younger than 14.

Today the Legal arm of Jehovah’s Witnesses decided to settle with Stephanie Fessler after the second day of the trial continued to inundate them with egregious and outrageous allegations of hurting kids. For seventeen years the organization has been under fire for policies that require internal tribunals to require children to produce two eyewitnesses when abuse allegations come forward. Kids are routinely silenced with threats of expulsion if they try to alert others or report to authorities

WEST PALM BEACH (CBS12) —

A verdict has been reached in the trial of a former teacher’s aide from Lake Worth, he was accused of having sex with a 15-year-old girl he met through church functions.

The jury of 6 was unanimous-- finding Hugh Murray guilty on all counts.

A victim speaks out on her abuse by her elder father.

The new brochure ---- Answers To Ten Questions Young People Ask?

Question 8 is about what to do if you have been sexually assaulted.

And the answer is 1) Talk to a friend. 2) Talk to the Elders. 3)Then talk to your parents. and finally, 4) Talk to Jehovah God in prayer.