Jehovah's Witnesses & (sexual) child abuse
 Jehovah's Witness climbed into bed with son of fellow church goers A sexual frustrated Jehovah's Witness carried out a sex attack on an 11-year-old schoolboy because he couldn’t find a girlfriend and was looking for a substitute. (added 03/13/2004)
 Man faces theme park child rape charges A devout Jehovah's Witness and family man raped two children and assaulted five others in a theme park in Australia (added 03/12/2004)
Jehovah's
Witnesses hit with abuse suits -Alleged victims were molested
as children, they say 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. (added 07/31/2003)
 Jehovah's
Witnesses asking woman to pay legal costs in sexual abuse
lawsuit A judge awarded Vicki Boer $5,000 in June. She
claimed in a civil suit that elders told her not to seek outside
help or report the alleged abuse. No criminal charges were
laid in the assault allegations. Now she is being asked by
the lawyer of the Watchtower Society to pay part of the religious
group's $160,000 in legal costs in the case. (added 07/24/2003)
 Amarillo
woman accuses Jehovah's Witness' elder of sexual abuse A
woman in Texas has sued the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
and the congregations in Dumas and Amarillo, claiming an elder
sexually abused her while the organization's officials took
no action to halt it. (added 06/06/2003)
 Another
Church Sex Scandal William Bowen, Attorney Jeff Anderson
and plaintiff Heidi Meyer announce a civil lawsuit filed against
the Jehovah's Witness headquarters. (added 04/30/2003)
Suit charges church coverup -Jehovah's
Witness group is blamed in abuse of girl 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. (added
0101/2003)
 Worldwide
Class Action Suit against the Watchtower Society A consortium
of attorneys are planning Mass Class Action Suits against
the Watchtower Society for victims of sexual abuse and wrongful
death. (added 10/11/2002)
 Transcript
of Australian Channel 9 Sunday Program "Silent Witnesses"
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. (added 09/22/2002)
 Transcript
of CNN Connie Chung Tonight Program "Witnesses abused?
Church accused of failing children" An interview
with sexual abuse victims Heidi Meyer & Amber Long and
former elder Bill Bowen by Connie Chung (added 08/20/2002)
 New
York Times article on Sexual Abuse: Ousted Members Contend
Jehovah's Witnesses' Abuse Policy Hides Offenses
(added 08/11/2002)
 BOOK
REVIEW Father's Touch -A Book Written by a Jehovah's Witness
Incest Victim
Sexual abuse victim Donald D'Haene and his siblings refused
to remain silent about the horrors of sexual abuse. D'Haene
has written a memoir of his abusive experience that will be
of great benefit to sexually abused victims, rape survivors
and educators. Father's Touch details his father's physical
and sexual abuse of his siblings, his mother, and himself;
his experience with faith, educators, sexual orientation,
therapy, and a trial. (added 08/10/2002)
 Bill
Bowen's Appeal Letter
Bill Bowen has appealed to the decision to Disfellowship him
for speaking out on sexual abuse among Jehovah's Witnesses.
(added 07/30/2002)
 Former
elder excommunicated for speaking out on sexual abuse
Bill Bowen, former elder and anti- sexual abuse activist,
has been Disfellowshipped by the Watchtower Society for criticizing
the handling of child sexual abuse cases. (added 07/26/2002)
 BBC
Panorama Transcript -Suffer The Little Children 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 the transcript or watch the video.
(added 07/15/2002)
 Jehovah's
Witness jailed for abusing boys 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.
(added 07/12/2002)
 Transcript
NBC DATELINE Expose on Jehovah Witnesses Pedophile Cover-Up
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. (added
05/31/2002)
Watchtower Leaders launch propaganda
offensive against sexual child abuse-policy critics
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'.
Jehovah's Witnesses act against
abuse-policy critics The WTS is taking steps to excommunicate
Bill Bowen and three other Witnesses who have publicly criticized
what they say is the Society's secretive handling of child-molestation
cases.
Jehovah's Witness Man Pleades guilty for
sex with Teenagers A West Milford man pleaded guilty to
child endangerment offenses for sexual encounters he had with
two teenage girls he met through his membership at the Jehovah's
Witnesses. An elder contacted the police.
Sexual Abuse Suit Filed Against
Jehovah's Witness Leaders 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.
Jehovah's Witness elders did nothing
to stop the abuse of daughter by father Alison Cousins
turned to the elders after her dad abused her for three years.
The elders knew the man had preyed on another girl. He confessed
to them two years earlier but police were not informed. The
elders did nothing because they were "not sure of her
claim"
Elder leaves faith to protest child
molestation policies William Bowen resigned as an elder
in protest of how the Watchtower handles accusations of child
molestation.
Prominent
sister accuses the Watchtower Society's of shielding pedophiles
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.
Prosecuter asks court to violate
sanctity of confession in Jehovah's Witnesses sexual abuse
case A prosecutor has asked the Missouri Supreme Court
to allow him to question JW elders regarding a JW who allegedly
confessed to sexually abusing two children
JW parents murder their daughter by
hitting her 160 times with a 5-foot stretch of electrical
cable "This is the absolute worst I've seen,"
Assistant State's Atty. Robert Hovey whispered as the parents
were led into the courtroom...
Secret Watchtower letters to bodies of elders about sexual
child abuse
Secret Watchtower letters to bodies of elders about sexual
child abuse
Six letters showing the Watchtower Society's policy regarding
child abuse. See how the Watchtower Society puts it's own
interests above the interest of the victims:
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