September 5th, 2007 | Posted in: (Sexual) Child Abuse | Keywords: Jehovah, Watchtower Society, Children, Video
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 the rest »
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May 20th, 2007 | Posted in: (Sexual) Child Abuse | Keywords: Jehovah, Watchtower Society, Children, Video
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 the rest »
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August 25th, 2006 | Posted in: Blood & Medical Issues | Keywords: Jehovah, Watchtower Society
A judge has ruled that Tawnya Nissen, a 27 year old comatose woman, may receive a blood transfusion, despite her Jehovah’s Witness husband’s objections that blood transfusions are against God’s will.
Tawnya has been unconscious since July 31, when she collapsed because of a bad reaction to a diet drug. Doctors told the family that she might need a blood transfusion if she had to undergo a tracheotomy or other emergency surgery. Tawnya has not needed a blood transfusion, and her condition has improved. But she remains unconscious, and her father — who is not a Jehovah’s Witness — asked a judge to give him, rather than her husband Chris Nissen, the power to decide on her treatment. Read the rest »
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August 16th, 2006 | Posted in: Doctrine & Changes | Keywords: Jehovah, Watchtower Society, Russell, articles by Rado Vleugel
The first President of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, Pastor Charles Taze Russell, died from the result of multiple ailments on the night of October 31, 1916 in a train car.
In this article you’ll find a reprint of the Will and Testament of Charles Taze Russell that was soon interpreted in different ways by Russel’s successors. Read the rest »
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April 27th, 2006 | Posted in: (Sexual) Child Abuse | Keywords: Children, Jehovah, Watchtower, Video
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 the rest »
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