Man ‘asked for forgiveness’ after molesting children he met at church, Texas cops say
No one at the Kingdom Hall here was willing to talk to me on camera.
Jehovah's Witnesses sued over 'historical sex abuse’
The group has a policy of not punishing alleged child sex abuse unless a second person, alongside the accuser, has witnessed it - or an abuser confesses.
It says its elders "comply with child-abuse reporting laws even if there is only one witness", though, and always tell police if a child is in danger.
But one former elder said it had been failing to involve the authorities.
CANADA JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES ON TRIAL FOR ABUSE POLICIES
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.
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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.
$35 MILLION PAID OUT TO JW ABUSE SURVIVOR!
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.
JWORG LOSES COURT APPEAL $2 MILLION DONATED FUNDS GO TO SUPPORT PEDOPHILES!
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.
WE LOVE OUR PEDOPHILES MORE THAN OUR KIDS!
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.