A Jehovah’s Witness pedophile was spared prison despite admitting carrying out a string of sex attacks on young children.
Michael Porter, 38, used his trusted position as a ministerial servant to indulge his habits as a pedophile. One of his victims was an 18-month-old baby. Read more…
Sixteen sexual abuse victims have settled nine lawsuits in which they said they were sexually abused as children by Jehovah’s Witnesses members and leaders.
Settlements were reached in late February and early March, according to court records obtained by Bill Bowen of SilentLambs.org. Now with video of press conference! Read more…
In 1965 a boy was molested by a ministerial servant in a congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses en route to an assembly, where the molester was due to give a talk at the convention.
Revulsed, the boy was nevertheless forced to be around this molester in the years ahead in agonizing cruel ways.
When the matter came up before the Service Dept. of the Watchtower in Brooklyn, and the elders in the local congregation, no reply was given, no apologies, no offer for counseling an abuse victim, just the warning that you “could be disfellowshipped for gossip.”
See his compelling testimony in the following 20 minute video. Read more…
A Jehovah’s Witnesses elder was sentenced to at least 25 years in prison for raping two teenage sisters in his congregation. Read more…
A Jehovah’s Witness who carried out a sex attack on an 11-year-old schoolboy yesterday walked free from court.
Anthony Gibbs, 36, climbed into bed with the boy at the home of a fellow churchgoer after being rejected by a woman during a night out. Read more…
QUEENSLAND NEWS
11mar04
A devout Jehovah’s Witness and family man raped two children and assaulted five others in a lagoon at a Gold Coast theme park, a court was told yesterday. Read more…
Thursday, July 31, 2003Don Lattin, Chronicle Religion Writer
Eight former members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses have filed lawsuits in three Northern California counties alleging that they were sexually molested as children and that their church covered up the crimes. Read more…
AMARILLO, Texas- An Amarillo woman has sued the Jehovah’s Witnesses and its groups in Dumas and Amarillo, claiming an elder sexually abused her while the organization’s officials took no action to halt it. Read more…
SOUTHERN MINNESOTA, April 29, 2003
(CBS)Like any mom, Heidi Meyer fixes boo-boos, serves up breakfast and even reviews some math homework.
But every day is a fight for this mom to overcome her past.
“Basically any way that he could put his hands on me, he did,” she told CBS News Correspondent Jane Clayson.
From the time she was 10, until she turned 13, Heidi, a Jehovah’s Witness, says she was molested by a member of her congregation. Finally, she turned to the leaders of her faith. Read more…
By Kathleen Burge, Globe Staff, 1/1/2003
A 14-year-old Dorchester girl and her parents are suing the Jehovah’s Witnesses, arguing that the religious group covered up the girl’s sexual abuse by a Bible study leader and discouraged her parents from reporting the abuse to police or prosecutors. Read more…