Wednesday, May 8, 2002
By Peter Smith
psmith@courier-journal.com
The Courier-Journal
Leaders of the Jehovah’s Witnesses are taking steps to excommunicate a Western Kentucky man and three other church members who have publicly criticized what they say is their church’s secretive handling of child-molestation cases. Read more…
A West Milford man pleaded guilty to child endangerment offenses Friday for sexual encounters he had with two teenage girls he met through his membership at the Jehovah’s Witnesses temple in town. Read more…
Erica Rodriguez is suing the Othello Washington Spanish Jehovah’s Witness congregation, and the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses because they violated Washington’s mandatory child abuse reporting law. Read more…
DAD’S JEHOVAH WITNESSES DID NOTHING TO STOP MY SEX ABUSE NIGHTMAREVictim’s agony claims
A TEENAGE GIRL has told how Jehovah’s Witness elders failed to help her nail her pervert father.
Tuesday, January 15, 2002 – Daily Record
Alison Cousins turned to the elders of her family’s church after devout dad Ian abused her for three years.
The elders knew Cousins had preyed on another girl. He confessed to them two years earlier but police were not informed. Read more…
“This is the absolute worst I’ve seen,” Assistant State’s Atty. Robert Hovey whispered as the parents were led into the courtroom… Read more…
On July 20, 1998 all bodies of elders in the United States received a letter of the Watchtower Society about appointing a former child abuser as a ministerial servant or an elder. Read more…
The March 14, 1997 letter to all bodies of elders in the United States gives guidelines what to do with child abusers who move to another congregation. It also clearly states that it is possible for an former child abuser to serve as elder, ministerial servant or pioneer. Read more…
The August 1, 1995 letter to all bodies of elders in the United States shows that reporting sexual child abuse to the Society is more important than reporting it to the authorities Read more…
The March 23, 1992 letter to all bodies of elders in the United States teaches elders how to help sexual abuse victims. Although they certainly want to help these victims it must be said that their method is not always in the best interest of the victim. Read more…
Secret Watchtower letter to Bodies of Elders about how to handle with Child Molesters. Read more…