Jehovah's Witness climbed into bed with son of fellow church goers
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.
Prosecutor Roger Griffiths said the boy’s parents had invited Gibbs back to their home because they knew him through his church activities.
He said, “Gibbs said he had become known to the family because they regularly attended the church.
“But on the night he met them by chance in a pub – they were all their with friends who were Jehovah’s Witnesses.
“He then returned to their home to stay the night.”
Cardiff Crown Court heard Gibbs woke the boy up and the youngster ran to his mother.
Mr Griffiths said, “He said he was frightened of Anthony because he had been feeling him. He told his mother Gibbs had been touching him.”
Gibbs, of Croeserw, near Maesteg, admitted what he had done to police and told them he was feeling lonely.
Mr Griffiths said, “He told officers there seemed to be some temptation. Gibbs told the police, ‘It disgusts me and it has disgusted the congregation’.
“He said, ‘Maybe it’s because lately I haven’t found a girlfriend and was looking for a substitute’.”
“Gibbs said he had been getting on with a girl earlier in the evening and seemed to suggest he was pretending the boy was that girl when he touched him.”
Peter Davies, defending, said, “This was an isolated incident. He has a very lonely background and has now lost everything. He has crucified himself with self-recrimination for what he has done.”
Judge David Aubrey QC sentenced Gibbs to a three-year community rehabilitation order and ordered him to register as a sex offender for five years.
Might be time to open your eyes Liz, apparently we are immature; however I would think that’s better than being naive & ignorant.
What do you think?
THERES A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING I GUESS, FIRST OFF NO GOOD JEHOVAH WHITTNES GOES TO A PUB WITH FELLOW CHURCH FRIENDS, THIS IS SAD.:( POOR CHILD
Hi Nathan,
I recently read your book, a great read for all ex-JW’s and even more so for the budding enthisiast.
Cheers,
Markus.
hi nathaniel,
it’s actually the ‘Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger’ category.
I feel the same way as you do. I am infuriate with the narrow mindness of people.This fools people will have thhey day a comming win they will not be able to deny the truth. You must held on to that fact.I pity these people who think the know any thing about our relgion and beliefs. They are scared of the truth.
to fallen witless below:
what you say could be possible, my mother then young -she’s still beautiful but a little bit old- had the same experience with a married with two daughters special pioneer. Mom was still in love with my dad plus the witless special pioneer was a slimy piece of shit as most special pioneeers are (the rest are double-faced nosy scroungers)
But usually the witlesses strategy/approach is more subtle.
Which makes them even more dangerous -for empty-skull only I mean…
igethighwhenimakelovetomyfriends!
Elizabeth,
Lucky for us our God created Satan, for we now have someone to blame for Biblegod’s inhumane acts.
Looking into your good book, lets try to keep score:
People in the Bible who lost their lives at the hand of Joe Hover = I dunno maybe billions.
People in in Bible who lost their lives at the hands of Satan, the father of the lie = a few poor folk, sons and daughters and herdsmen of the faithful Job, and these deaths were condoned by Joe, that good fellow who we all love so much. Seeing as the book of Job is considered by most Bible scholars as a parable and did not physically happen this brings our number of deaths awarded to our villain to the vast sum of ZERO.
Final score of murders in the Bible:
Biblegod – Millions if not billions
Satan – Zero
Makes one think doesn’t it?
Cheers,
Markus
Julie,
You spout “facts” from you base on what? You have no idea what you are talkign about. Why don’t you do yourself a favor:
First – research your own false religion for the heracies they employ in the name of God. Nah – that would be too much trouble for you wouldn’t it? Nevermind – continue to do the so-called “Christ birthday” celebration called Christmas. It’s a MADE UP holiday borne from a desire by early Catholic Church to entice Pagans into the boring old Church. It’s a winter solistice celebration you moron. If you are too lazy to read for yourself, turn on the History Channel once in a while and let them spoon feed you some facts about world history.
Second – before you go trashing other religions – do a little research. Jehovah’s Witness do not deny that Jesus was the Son of God. You LIE when you speak that. You MADE THAT UP – that is called a “lie” and the “Father of the LIE” is called “Satan.” So, are you a Satanic Cultist?
People like you infuriate me. Which is greater? Your innate stupidity or your lack of education?
GET INTERESTED! Read and explore life and history for yourself instead of depending on being spoon-fed your unoriginal ideas.
This story is complete horseshit. Isolated abuses by individuals occur in ALL religious organizations. I was raised a JW but in my late teens I fell away. I honestly don’t like the religion for a few well-considered reasons of my own but I do not attempt to get my family to denounce it, leave it, etc. Nor do I feel the need to make up total lies and trash the reputations of people I came to KNOW as — for the most part — extremely good-hearted, well-mannered, mild people with strong morals and integrity. People with bad morals were whisked out immediately. To get back in required major effort on their part including apology and a genuine interest in repentance.
I may not be a Witness any longer but it sickens me to see crap like this as if is somehow a global statement on the religion as a whole. My precious and dear sister remains strong to the JW faith and I would put her above and beyond most any human being I’ve ever known – she is kind, honest and smart. She is no blindly idiotic “follower” — she chooses this for herself and I respect her and her choice. I also respect the religion even though I don’t agree with much of their points of faith.
God will get all of US human beings for the bad behavior we choose to engage in and the persons on here writing total lies and misrepresenting isolated stories as is a “factoid” respresenting that entire faith are no exception.
You know who you are and should be filled with shame.
hi i that person is a lies to jehovahs name .mostly all the jehovah wittness are kind and warm hearted
And what do you think will happen when they follow your advice? What has been and is happening right now? Go the one of your elders and find out what procedure the elders will follow. Ask them if it is right to go to the police first? Remember it is not only a sin –it is a crime!
“If anyone is a Jehovah’s Witness and are perhaps being molested or abused then you should perhaps talk to your parents or find someone you can trust within the Congregation.”
NO, go to the police first! It is a crime! Don’t let them cover-up ‘within the Congregation!
Tony
Well all i can say is that God will Judge when the time is right. Nothing will kill my faith. Like that other dude said lol the anonym guy/girl, well he’s/she’s right. People do become bad and you shouldn’t judge a religion really by a few “apparent” articles which could have been fiction.
There is alot of immoral Influence in the world today, which is increasing. Standards are becoming worse.
But people who are good at heart and are true and honest will most probably be saved at armageddon.
Sex offenders who are in the truth are obviously false and perhaps Mentaly ill, they perhaps think they are saved automaticly on joining the JW’s.
If anyone is a Jehovah’s Witness and are perhaps being molested or abused then you should perhaps talk to your parents or find someone you can trust within the Congregation.
It does not mean anything… Of course there are child molesters who are of different religions, and also ones that have no religion at all, the only difference with the ones that are part of a religious organisation, namely JW’s, is that they try to hide and deny that it is happening within their perfect organisation. They are a bunch or hypocrites (and not just in relation to this issue)
A JW “elder” came on to me when I was nineteen, nearly thirty-four years ago in Flint Michigan, wishing to fellate me and then have me sodomize him. I was aghast and shook him and slapped him around. This occured during the time when Armageddon was going to occur in 1975. The WTBTS ruined my mind and my life for a number of years, but I finally got my head back together. I have a deep-seated hatred of the WTBTS “faithless and vindictive oppressor class” and to this day I savor every bit of truthful press they receive.
NJM
I would like to say that I support and believe everyone here who has complained of protection for child molesters in the religion. The response when I was being molested as a four year old (before our family even joined the religion) was that it was gossipped about in the congregation, I was told I had a masturbation problem only and even elderly sisters in the congregation would treat me openly in front of the other kids in a manner that constitutes sexual harassment. They just don’t have a clue.
If you judge a religion by ‘everyone must never go
bad in it, otherwise nothing it teaches is right and all
in it are wrong’, then you’ll never accept the Holy Bible
and the different congregations problems recorded
therein.
God gave us the gift of free will. Once good people
can go very bad. Example’s are Adam, Judas, Satan
and other angels, etc.
We can be assured that Jehovah sees us all and
reads our hearts. We each must faithfully read and
follow his commandments, if we love God, ourselves,
others, and life eternal.
Not all is ‘perfect’ to the ultimate way just like the
miracle working true congregations of the first century.
But, God still used the faithful ones then, and he does the same as he promised, today.
There is a spiritual quality to every denomination that practices a part and/or a portion of the scriptures and neglects other important parts. I have observed individuals of these two particular ‘denominations’ in the community in which we live become friendly very quickly. They seem to have an immediate bond; even stronger than I have observed between most Christian denominations. The conclusion that I have come to is that both deny the divinity of Christ. Both deny the authenticity of the sonship of Christ as the son of God. Neither recognize Christmas as a day to honor the birth of the son of God. Both have little respect for women or for God. If one did have respect for the latter, one would also have respect for the former. They attempt to make God into a liar, therefore, they become the liars. God is a shield that repels all evil liars. What one accuses God of then becomes their judgment. There are common threads that manifest in both the spiritual and the natural world. The Word of God must be made true…
This is the most untrue thing I have ever read.
Floyd – How do you figure this guy was protected? His actions were made public, and he was sentenced by a non-witness judge. And your comment about a room full of elders upholding his story? Are you implying that the judge was easliy swayed to go easy on man who admitted to improper contact with a boy? I highly doubt that. Your comments reflect your anger based soley on your removal from the congregation. The truth here is that this guy called himself a Witness, but his behaviour indicates he was one in name only. There was no attempt to hide what he did. He was sentenced by a non-partial judge, and the matter is now closed. Hopefully he gets the help he needs.
I was studying with nwhitnesses, and about to join them. My wife was whitness. We traveled and wisited bknown whitness old brother,
who had wife. visit last four days.
Allready first evening, brother almost wanet to come to sleep
with my wife, and used to sneak naked around house.
The brorher explein to me all advantages on organization. and sex is not denied between brothers and sisters, but blessing.
I did not answer nothing, but I distanced my relations to otganixation.
It did not match with the bible.
Does it really mean anything that people who molest people belong to specific denominations. Being a Jehovah’s Witness or a Muslim has little to do with why a person would molest a person. I was molested and raped. Both people were not of the same religion. So, what does that mean?
I dont understand i have been disfellowshipped for the past 15 years when do J.Ws go to pubs and start getting on with girls? Did the rules change? Trust me im not defending them, i was molested by one of our local pioneers 15 years ago. The story just does not sound right. Just an opinion.
THIS IS A TYPICAL W.T.B.T.S. CONCLUSION ON A STORY FROM A PEDOPHILE. WHEN I LEFT THE CULT THERE WERE THREE IN THE CONGREGATION I WAS IN AND ONE OF THEM TOLD A SIMILAR STORY. THE W.T.B.T.S. PROTECTS THESE GUYS JUST LIKE THIS JUDGE DID. HE PROBABLY HAD A COURT ROOM OF W.T.B.T.S. ELDERS UPHOLDING HIS STORY. THIS IS A CONFIDENTIAL MATTER THAT IS HID IN THE FILES AT THE KINGDOM HALL AND BROOKLYN.
was he disfellowshipped?