Jehovah's Witness pedophile walked free from court despite one of his victims was a baby
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.
Jehovah’s Witness parents trusted him to look after their children, and Porter regularly babysat for youngsters, took them away on holidays and invited them for sleepovers at his home.
Michael Porter pleaded guilty to 24 counts of indecent assault and gross indecency on children at Bristol Crown Court.
He walked free from court on August 23 (2007) despite admitting his sexual abuse of young children. Judge Thomas Crowther handed him a three-year community rehabilitation order after hearing he had undergone therapy.
Judge Thomas Crowther said:
“This is a case which in my experience is exceptional, in a sense historic and revealed by you in unusual circumstances which I am sure are linked with the faith by which you now run your life. ..
I’m satisfied, having the advantage of a number of reports as to your early background, that the reasons for your behaving as you did are complex and personal and reveal that you were subject to pressures which make it understandable that you should have acted as you did in this case. ..
What’s important, in terms of sentence, to realize is that you had changed your life before there was any question of these matters being revealed and I’m as satisfied as I can be, whereas in some circumstances punishment by way of imprisonment is inevitable, this is not one of those, and the proper sentence is a community rehabilitation order.”
However, Porter’s sister Tina Hughes spoke out against the ruling and warned that her brother would commit further offences now he was back in society:
“I think the judge was absolutely pathetic. He just took my brother’s side completely and believed that all he needed was a bit more therapy and now realized he had done wrong. …
He blamed his childhood for the attacks, which was a lie, but the judge ate it all up. …
I just broke down in tears when the judge said he wasn’t going to jail. The whole courtroom went quiet. No-one could believe it. …
I can’t believe the judge thinks he is safe to be allowed out on the streets. He won’t stop. …He has gone back to London and left us to pick up the pieces. He hasn’t lost anything. He hasn’t even lost his wife. He hasn’t been affected in any way. He can go away and pretend nothing has happened because he doesn’t have to live here.”
A source said:
“One of the problems was that most of the victims were not prepared to make statements or give any kind of evidence. The offenses took place a long time ago and most of them seemed keen to put it all behind them.”
Mr Porter’s current Jehovah’s Witness congregation has stood by him despite confessing to his crimes, according to his sister. He is thought to be an elder at the Mill Hill Kingdom Hall, in Barnet, north London. Mill Hill is one of the most significant congregations in United Kingdom, as it is the official home congregation for the Branch Office of the IBSA (International Bible Students Association). Porter is listed as a “Trustee” for the Mill Hill Congregation with the UK Charities Commission.
Jehovah’s Witness elders from Porter’s Mill Hill Congregation assured media that Porter would be “supervised” as he attended meetings and door to door ministry to offer bibles studies with families.
Update: On 19 September 2007 the BBC reported that Porter’s case is to be reviewed by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). The Court of Appeal will now review the case to decide whether to increase Porter’s sentence.
A statement from the Attorney General’s office said:
“After a careful review, the Attorney General Baroness Scotland has decided to refer the sentence. She considers the sentence to be unduly lenient.
It will now be for the Court of Appeal to decide at a future hearing whether or not to increase the sentence.”
@nss dear nss, just read the bible and in the old testamnet you find only bloodbaths, genocide, mass rape, torture, wanton violence, cannibalism and all sorts of sexual perversions and depravations on the part of jehovordure.
in the new testament you find the same plus the burning in hell forever for all those who aren’t toeing the line with the insane depravations and perversions of your monstruous jesus the christo and his stoogies who completed the book-toilet paper. LEARN TO READ IGNORANT GOAT
cara vc não entende nada vc pprecisa respeita os outros não colocando sua opinão em pulblico@otto marconi
@lovely dove WHAT UNHOLY FILTH ARE JEHOVORDURES? PLEASE READ:
The jehovordures destroyed my family.
Real jehovordures are the worst criminals ever.
they are shockingly masochist, they hate themselves to death, to the most loathsome degree of self degradation.
THEIR DEGREE OF SELF-HATRED WOULD CHILL YOU TO THE BONES EVEN IF YA WERE IN THE PIT OF HELL.
they are also AS MUCH blasphemously sadist dying and praying and chanting and destroying their own worthless cockroachish existence and that of their children in order to sit in the front row when their shit-devourer, turdish, pukish scum cockroach-shit god the crap they name je-shit-hovah or jehowhore or jehovordure the cursed sewer of the universe brings ANALGEDDON about.
They’re dyin to see planetary carnage with the planet flooded and drenched to the core with innocent human blood after having fanatically spent their lives in their blind and soul-shattering terrorist activities such as mass-murdering, child-raping, screwing the government and the tax people with their shameless frauds and tax dodging and especially covering up their thriving, no-stop worldwide industry of child raping activities.
I wish no jehovordure quit their shit-eating cult cos i wanna them to shrivel up and croak like underdeveloped, monstruosly deformed shiteating cockroaches.
This is what these blaspemous and loathsome and venomous child grabbers harlots depraved and perverse excreta are.
and the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger is doing a great job in crushing more and more of their cockroache asslickers and ass-suckers, monster madmen wishing only to clean white the governing bloody body’s crap-hole.
in the meantime the throat of jehowhore their sluttish shit-eating god is my personal puker shitter and pisser.
ni verguenza les da engañar a la gente y publicar las marranadas de sus cerdos congregados,hablan de amor a dios y correccion y esta visto q ustedes son peores. deberia darles verguenza anunciar asi lo q tanto, ustedes si son hijos del DIOS DE ESTE SISTEMA DE COSAS q tanto citan en su biblia y pidanle a Dios q si yo estoy mal me ilumine. pero si ustedes son los q estan mal los ayude a terminar con sus mentiras y los perdone
Jehovah God should not be blamed for anything bad that happens on this earth. we are sinners everything is our fault from adam and eve so miss natalie get your head in the bible and then talk.
@otto marconi LADY-ROTTEN-JIZZMIMA = NATALIE: all i said about ladyROTTENjizzmima is equally applicable to natalie, a loathsome shiteating sewer rat turning into monster cockroach.
PLEASE DO REMAIN JEHOVORDURES.
@Natalie dear ladyjizzmima, what a whore you are according to what your poisonous words reveal!
ya wanna remain a jehovordure? please DO so!
but do not come here with your cheap and embarassing watchtowerian bla-bla-bla trying to defend your shameful corruption.
remember, you fucking cockroach jehovordures led by the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger are the worst CHILD RAPIST congro ever to crawl on this poor planet.
your loathsome and grossly uneducated comment speaks volumes about your being not only a CHILD RAPIST AND CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE ADVOCATE, BUT ALSO A MONSTER, A WHORE, A SHITEATER, A FRAUD, A CHEAT, A TERRORIST AND A MONSTRUOUSLY DEFORMED CRAP-DEVOURING COCKROACH.
@ladyjemima
I know this is a very touchy issue and I am in groups that support children of sexual abuse and I even still get sick to the stomach when I hear of babies and infants that are sexually abused and then murdered.
Its horrid and yes satan is working over time to drag as many as he can down under with him.
He thrives on the death and mutilation of innocent people and Of course Jehovah God is the first to be blamed…I am longing for the time Jehovah shows his wrath and wipes this God forsaken world and all its badness out, it will be nice to see the back of it.
Remain strong people not long left.
The witnesses and the organization DO NOT COVER UP THESE SICK AND DISGUSTING PERVERTS,Jehovahs Organization is Not Like that , and if anyone wants to debate it, I have good arguement and I know first hand it doesnt get brushed under the mat, not at all.
All of you need to re-read the NWT and meditate on it. You are all confused about Jehovah’s witnesses. We all are not evil. They’re evildoers in every religion. How do you know that Charles Taze Russell was a freemason at the time of starting the bible students, Markus? You all are brainwashed with the evils of Satan the devil. This is what he did to Eve. Made her feel that Jehovah was depriving her of something good, and keeping her in the dark. Satan was wrong! He was depriving Eve of something and keeping her in the dark. Jehovah was protecting her! Re-read your NWT daily!
Here is a link to an official newspper article of the case cookie. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2317335.ece
How come you didn’t print the news article as you have done in other areas. It read as if you had edited perhaps some important information out. It sounded like this was something from his life BEFORE he became one of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
It seems to me you have a deep seeded anger and hatred for the Witnesses.
Sounds like you were one of those who was disfellowed and you have a real axe to grind.
Whatever religion you are, if you claim to be a Christian, then you should be following God’s Word. He has the authority to tell us what is acceptable to him and what is not. Jesus gave us two commands to follow which replaced the Law. These two commandments are to love God with you whole heart and soul and to love your neighbor. In the end, we all will answer to God for the type of life we have led. While we may all fall short, as we are imperfect humans and do make mistakes, it is our attitude toward the wrong doing, our repentance that earns us forgiveness from God. Thank God, He judges us on our efforts and not necessarily on what we accomplish. The Bible also says that if we expect forgiveness from God, then we must extend forgiveness to others. I suggest you put your axe away and beg God for forgiveness for you are doing Jehovah’s Witnesses a great injustice.
@Bob
dear bob, being the ultimate perverts, jehovordures (worshipers of jehovordure)they enjoy sinning like they enjoy grabbing children in a sexually abusive way, adoring their blasphemous pahllic crapmadetotem and screwing each other big time. they are insane but they like it and that’s why in spite of their sexual mindnumbing repression they enjoy their nightmare, they are hoplessly masochists and insanely sadist toward their babies. these are the monsters bred by the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger.