The Catholic and Anglican churches in Australia are already engulfed in the scandal of child abuse. Sunday has managed to get inside the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and found the WTS has secretly pursued a policy of obstructing police investigations into child abusers. Read more…
An interview with sexual abuse victims Heidi Meyer & Amber Long and former elder Bill Bowen by Connie Chung Read more…
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
[New York Times]
[08-11-2002]
William Bowen always considered himself a devout Jehovah’s Witness. As a child, he felt it was his duty to go door to door passing out the church’s magazine, The Watchtower. Later, as an elder in his Kentucky congregation, he said he saw it as his duty to inform church officials that a fellow elder had abused a child. Read more…
Bill Bowen has appealed to the decision to Disfellowship him for speaking out on sexual abuse among Jehovah’s Witnesses. Read more…
Once a prominent sister serving on Bethel, still a wife of an elder and now fighting for a change in the Society’s policy regarding pedophiles, Barbara Anderson is a woman who can play an important role in informing the public about the Society’s role in this matter. Read more…
July 26, 2002, 2:27 AM EDT
DRAFFENVILLE, Ky. — The Jehovah’s Witnesses have expelled a former elder who publicly criticized the church’s handling of child sexual abuse cases, the man said. Read more…
On sunday July 14 2002 BBC 1 broadcasted the program Suffer The Little Children. Panorama tells the harrowing stories of children put at risk by the Watchtower Society’s bible-based policies and unearths evidence of a database of members suspected of child abuse – many of whom have never been reported to the police. Read more…
James Barratt, 45, of Rugby, Warwickshire, a Jehovah’s Witness elder has been jailed for child abuse. He was found guilty of indecently assaulting two teenagers entrusted to him for Bible studies and counselling. Read more…
DATELINE Correspondent John Larson spoke with victims, their families, and former church officials. They told DATELINE the problem is widespread within the organization. What makes it worse, they say, is that it is virtually impossible to seek justice from the Jehovah’s Witness’ leadership. Read more…
More and more newspapers are paying attention to the fact that the Society tries to silence child abuse-policy critics. In this article you can see how the Office of Public Information of Jehovah’s Witnesses strikes back by telling the public ‘how good they are in handling child molestation’. Read more…