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.”
My ex husband, an elder, tipped his brother in law off that they were doing an investigational phone call between his daughter and the pedifile uncle. The marriage desolved, the pedifile brother in law was made a ministerail servant. I lost my mother.My ex husband left me in a hospital for depression. we devoirced, he remained a Jw, he later married a filipino girl 5 years older than our oldest son , has created me and numereous JWS out of realestate,has named me as a person who will pay his income tax thus frauding the IRS… AND HE IS STILL AN ELDER.
Hi Jones, how are you?
Thank you for the ironic remark about me being astudent of history.
true unbelievers-in-christ have spilled as much blood as christians. Kinda trying to outdo each other, don’t ya think?
However non-believers-in-christ have never had the impudence of claiming they represent a god (or THE god) of LOVE and PEACE. This claim is all the more so offensive and brazen knowing that in actual fact both jesus the christo and is yhwh god-father are nothing else but gore and blood addicts, to say the least… (read the bible and the SET FREE FROM JESUS site)
Then you add as if to excuse or minimize or rationalize away shameful and blood-drenched christianity:
“”"However you cannot believe that what has been done most times in the name of Christianity is done more from a political nature. “”"”
This statement of yours shows that either your level of analysis is still very, very shallow, or you think people ALL are hopelessly stupid or you are still living a dream.
Jones, my dear, christianity is O-N-L-Y about POWER and MONEY and POLITICS, just like all religions.
If jesus really existed he was political, period. The Kingdom of God? Are you kidding me?
A big hug.
Otto,
From what I read of your posts, you articulate well so you must be a pretty informed student of history. If you will go through your memory bank, and take an honest assessment, you will conclude that the bloodshed spilled can be equally shared by unbelievers. Pol Pot in Cambodia is one of the latest and the ethnic cleansing in Africa is not a Christian action. Granted, much has been done in the name of Christianity that should make all of us hang our heads in shame. However you cannot believe that what has been done most times in the name of Christianity is done more from a political nature.
Hi Jones,
Nice to hear from you again.
You are correct, no need to beat our heads. We don’t agree on religious issues, except maybe on the JW lot.
Fishing is great, or so I am told, I need to gear up again, Peth is slightly inshore from where the Swan river meets the Atlantic ocean, I intend getting a boat but am still very busy orgainzing our new home and working at the same time, so I haven’t had time to do any fishing.
You can still contact me on my old e-mail address if you wish. I don’t have your address as it is on my computer in a container somewhere on the Atlantic ocean.
Cheers,
Markus
tony,
talking about your compliments, trust me, they belong to your own vermin-overflowing sewage breed of pathetic tossers. That is yourself.
che massa di perditempo e merdosi elementi che siete voi che avete tutto sto’ tempo a dedicarvi ale calunnie.
andate a lavorare lavativi clericali
Hi Jones,
in principle I might agree with your comment but what about the 2000-years christian fallout upon human society?
If Luther thought that way we’d still be in the Dark Ages. Christianity is the enemy of Enlightenment and scientific progress.
Hystory is full of evidence as well as everyday news.
Markus;
Could not respond to your comment under the posting so I here I am under your latest one.
At least you admit that comments we make can have some effect on another person who may be in an emotional crisis. Yet we do seem to go full steam ahead and to hell with the consequences. Right? So what, we don’t have to deal with the fallout. You make choices to say and do what you do without remorse and I choose not to comment when there is a possibility that what I say will harm. Who is making the better choice? I rest my case.
On a lighter note, I hope all is well with you in your new “digs” in Australia. Are you close to a better fishing place? I will admit that we had some fun with your tiger fish photos.
Nice to hear from you James, just came back from a long Christmas vacation. Had to go Canada to experience some snow as it is not something we can see often in our lives over this side of the world. Apparently you guys have been active during my desertion.
The jw’s clowns still active on this site are the not? Poor souls are so indoctrinated that they cannot see/think clearly. Let see what we can do to help these poor clowns.
Cheers,
Fri
WoW! do you realize how dwarfed you got in terms of logic and wit next to Otto?
What that guy (Otto) says about Jehovah’s Witnesses is true.Hard to swallow, I know.
Good to hear from you Otto, remember that the “clown” more than likely doesn’t have a life. Many of the JW clan sit at home after they are done washing windows & toilets, waiting for the world to end.
It also explains why so many suffer from mental problems, a fact that they cannot refute when you read the lengthy list of studies by professionals.
Fri & Markus, how are you guys doin’?
To the JW clan.
Here is the answer to a FAQ by you lot, and indeed by a lot of so-called non-JW supporters.
Q. How can you blame the JW when paedophilia is ripe in the world today and practised by practically all religions?
A. Yep this is true, but what really makes my blood boil is the JW’s somehow have the power to close ranks and convince the justice department that these issues will be handled internally, and so the offending elder gets to be let off as long as it no longer happens in the future (or for as long as he is not exposed again), but because he will spreads the good word for the Watchtower, in their eyes he is not such a bad fish at all.
To scar 13 year old life probably forever means nothing to the self same low life hierocracy that are so eager to show the way to the “truth and everlasting life’.
They are liars and frauds, which make the great lie of Jesus pale in comparison.
Cheers,
Markus
jesus the christo was born out of an illegitimate affair.
His mom got banged by/banged a Roman soldier, Panthera.
Joseph was a pathetic cuckolded loser.
gospel writers and the catholic hierarchy then larded the shocking reality with some cheap fabling, editing out the illegitimacy tradition.
First century documents that miraculously survived catholic bonfires hint also at mary as being engaged in harlotry.
way to go saviour!
to troglodyte,
go to google. then write on the search field ‘SET FREE FROM JESUS’.
read it all and well, then get back to me, darling.
I’m not using contempt at all actually what I say about the Towers of All Terrors are only compliments bordering flattery next to what they deserve.
“Roger” does not exist, it is just a comment designed to infuriate. Compare the grammatical errors to other posters and you’ll see what I’m talking about. It’s a manipulative way to villify a people. This precisely can be defined as propaganda. This explains the immediate yet prepared attacks following this comment and the lack of a response by “Roger”. It would be safe to assume i can expect a response from “Roger” now. You cannot be disfellowshiped for taking blood. All services and supplies are provided by the watchtower society and investment by it’s members is not allowed. Almost no businesses anywhere survive based on the income provided by a specific religious group it makes no economic sense, but the line of his wife being Ill I’m sure was intended to tug at all the right heart strings.
To Born again,
It’s great you don’t take drugs anymore. I hope you keep on the right track. I once many years ago had a girlfriend who also had a terrible drug problem, and I know that this is no easy trick to quit. At that stage in my life I was a fledgling JW. I introduced her to the faith and she attended a few meetings, even had a few personal studies. She killed herself shortly afterward. I only realized many years later, that the religion she adopted had probably put pressure on her to quit the habit or be killed at Armageddon. I thought it rather strange at the time that she was never mentioned by the JW again, not a peep, not even a ‘her faith was not strong enough’.
I have found that when anyone in any faith does well that particular faith will shout it out to the rest of the world. If that individual does something bad, like getting convicted of a crime; boy are they oh so quiet.
If you got marooned on an island where you had no access to drugs and were cured would you thank Jesus?
People are strange, after a long drought when it rains everybody shouts ‘praise the Lord!’ But nobody ever condemns Jesus for bringing about the drought in the first place.
Well done for kicking your habit, but please find out the Jesus you give credit to is not really such a good guy. It was your own guts that did it.
Cheers,
Markus
PS ‘The Set free from Jesus site’ can be found at jcnot4me.com
PPS I can’t wait for Jones to accuse me for popping his/her bubble and in all likelihood get the blame if born again should resume his/her habit, but then Jesus is the biggest drug of mankind, and if born again can quit then I would like him/her to quit good.
to bornagain above:
so how come other christians used to sell ya drugs then?
I repeat do go to the ‘SET FREE FROM JESUS’ site.
Your interpretation of your experience is so shallow it isn’t worth that much elaborating. A little maybe…
…Think of it, I even got more blessed than you. Though I love tobacco (I would love to chain-smoke cigars) I never got the habit in the first place. So was it jesus that helped me not to get the habit? So jesus helps somebody pre-emptively and others not?
Oh by the way, I got disfelloshipped (kicked outta the Towers of All Terrors murderous clan) for smoking!
Where is this site. SET FREE FROM JESUS.
I seached and all I can find is Jesus sets me free. Lord knows this is true as I used to do drugs but since my sister took me to Church I got saved and I don’t do drugs any more. I tell you Jesus is the one and only. Give him a chance and see.
for ALL the good christians:
read this site carefully.
After this go straight to the ‘SET FREE FROM JESUS’ site.
to All Jehovah’s witlesses:
this site is a great place for you to witness and put the hours in your field service report card.
Please tell us something about you, your lives, families, hope, faith, etc.
Hi James NON JW,
life is ok thank you, hope the same goes with you. My Xmas holidays better than ever, thank God (meaning not the jesus the christo creeper-jeeper scarecrow nor his peace-after-planetary-carnage god of love yhwh).
‘lil’ greymatter + Non james-whatever + Mr WhoreWoW are the same one clown. This laughingstock now feels better having outsmarted me with his brilliant posts. I really couldn’t match wits with this genious.
That’s why I feel privileged that the thing has even payed attention to my comments here.
I know, I know, I know, It’s hard to listen to, but always remember 2 Thomas 2: 23-25. As far as cracky & Otto, Otto how can you insult people whom up to this point I don’t see condoning This individuals actions, yet sit idly by while cracky says it’s OK to molest girls. Has his opinion of you kept you away. He brings up homosexuality, whats your opinion on homosexuality? He uses the name of one of dave chappelle’s personas specifically a stereotypical black drug addict, what’s your opinion on black people or anyone of a race other than your own? or what about drugs? We can obviously see what you think about individuals based on their religion, all jehovah’s witness policy is posted on their website. I think it’s more than fair to know a little about you, other than your beliefs that jesus is someone to be freed from. I ask this with a soft voice, please don’t avoid my questions. I’m sure people other than Jehovah’s witnesses would like to know.
Oh sorry, the you have no faith, hope, joy, or life otherwise you wouldn’t be here wisecrack was just to get a rise outta you. I was kinda bored and wanted to make sure you would respond.
Somebody threatened greymatter knowing full well by the spelling of his commentor name that he was almost certainly on a different continent (”Greymatter” not Graymatter). He may not have caught this but I did, I never threatened or insulted anybody and hope no one felt scared or threatened, but i knew you wouldn’t do anything anyway. Up to this point i’ve been mildly amused with what you have to say and had a few good laughs aswell. Comment Posted on January 5, 2008 at 8:23 pm especially.
Otto, the bozo above just needs to grow up. It’s rather amusing that a JW wishes to resort to violence to solve his inadequacies. Pity, I rest my case though, unfortunately they are unable to deal with reality. I wonder what he’s so upset about. Maybe he should cry a river, build a bridge and get over it.
After all can’t blame us for the Watchtower’s transgressions & sins. Perhaps he thinks one act of violence or should I say loud mouth stupidity will somehow make all these problems go away?
He be better off sticking his head back in the Watchtower’s ass, he certainly is spending a lot of time kissing it.
How’s life with you Otto? Leading a normal life I presume unlike some clowns? Funny how every JW that shows up at an “apostate” site posts the same emotional & childish messages isn’t it?
(In an abrupt and goofy way) Ha ha ha ha ha ha, you see what he did there, he countered my comment with a thought provoking response.(Wagging my finger at him, and sarcastic smile on my face) Oh, I gotta watch out for you.
to Wow,
I forgot dear friend, I’m not interested in your reply, I’m bored, so save the bother.
Thank you very, very much.
to Wow above:
upon reading you science I got the urge to kneel down and worship you.
But then I heard a thunderous voice from high above saying: ’see thou do it not, worship God’.
And Mr Wow, I do not need to ‘win’ any discussion. Stupido.
to NON-whatever above,
it was otto marconi that first asked ya to give us your address, when you labelled thyself with the ‘lil’ greymatter’ moniker.
I got it, you’re another hopeless and hapless jehov-ordure. Vintage.
Please we’re thru with jehowhore nonsense. If I wanna some more I’ll just buy (pardon!…give some voluntary contribution) another copy of the ‘watch the towers of all terrors’ comic rag.
I’m sure the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger will be happy with that.
Next troglodyte please!
this Mr Without a Clue,
yet another jehov-ordure who can’t help categorizing as ‘foolish’ all those who disagree with him and his jehowhore mob by quoting some gibberish smeared on the worst used and recycled ad infinitum toilet paper, the bible.
His attempt at cheap “philosophyzing” is to say the least embarrassing.
Typical of jeho-ordures.
Listen to him: ‘basic truth’, ‘derison without hate’, ‘corrosive emotion’. BS that can impress only those underdeveloped cockroaches swarming into the limpdom halls.
But didn’t I say ‘Next troglodyte please!’ ?
Wow! that sounded really impessive. That and the comment I made before was actually sarcasm. For the lay men his comment means that I am allegedly attempting to make this person believe something about his or herself that isn’t true. The fact that you’re using terms like this means you either got your ass handed to you by another commentor and feel like your confidence has been undermined or you’re realizing that immature profanity isn’t “winning” any discussions. Why don’t try repeating comment ID: 291052 to someone on the street and see what they think. Either way get all angry and try to zing me again I’m not bored with you yet.
A basic truth is that you cannot express derision without hate, but I did not accuse any individual or group of carrying such a corrosive emotion in their heart. If you personally took offense to this I apologize, that was by no means my intention. I hope anyone else who reads my comment can benefit from the basic yet essential message I was trying to express to anyone of any religion, group or denomination.
2 Thomas 2:23-25
Check the commentors name, I asked you first. If you can’t commit to one name I don’t know what to tell you. From the answer you gave me I don’t think you would even show up. It’s safe to say your wasting everybody’s time who stops to read these comments, but atleast they know whose wasting their time.
to Wow above:
another case of projective identification. perhaps helpless. Sorry to say that.
Next troglodyte please!
to non-james-blah-blah/lil’ greymatter-thing-whatever:
First of all my name is a real name. And is a cool name. Then it was me the first to ask you your address.
Moreover I’m not supposed to humor jehovordures of any kind or to back up jehowhores requests, nor to do as told by anyone least of all people like you.
In fact, to meet people have to meet at the same place not two different places, right? So we don’t need two addresses, just one, yours.
So if ya wanna start backing up what ya driveled out your mouth, please be my guest.
Otherwise just shut the f*** up and get outta here and go pray your jeho-ordure apegod in the name of scarecrow jesus the christo.
Please state something useful because cotempt and xenophobia offer nothing to the average person looking for some insight. Afterall to be willing to write off an entire group or denomination based on opinion or the actions of individuals you have to use the same arguments as a racist, it is by definition biggotry. That such mentality has always been fuel for hate & genocide regardless of wether religion was used as an excuse.
James NON-JW is Not a full name. That could be Lil’ 16 year old James from liverpool or James Woods. What about your address? Or you Marconi Whats your address & real name? I’m not being a tough guy I just figured you would back up what you had to say, but apparently you can’t.
hey James,
I think that ‘lil’ greymatter/non-James jw’ is done with this forum.
Nice extinguishing of another buggered, childgrabber jehovordure.
Listen clown, my name is James and no I do not hide behind some fake pseudo name like you do.
I was a JW for years and yes many are cowards. They are the ultimate lip service religion, sorry cult. If you are indeed a JW then you are living up to the billing with your comment. They are often ignorant, hypocritical, compassionless, heartless, clueless and above all insensitive to those who have been abused. They act like one person at their local Kingdom Hall and another away from it. You can try playing the ignorance card for so long; it still merely displays the lack of intelligence easily seen by everyone else.
No I still couldn’t care less where any of the JW clan lives, after all, the story above is about the pathetic behavior of some of your comrades. Let’s stick with the issues, not your petty little attempt to be a tough-guy.
Thank you.
to Mr Without a Clue above:
nobody here is trying to shoot in the crowd. Nobody here hates anybody. All this crap is underrated darling.
Above all you don’t know NOTHING (note the double negative) about the Towers of All Terrors’ policy on paedophilia pushed forth by the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger.
Buy a brain (plastic one won’t do), get an education on the subject matter, and when talking remember to switch on thy brains.
Next troglodyte please!
To believe that any group on this planet is completely free from the mental distortion of pedophelia is naive. statistically a large number of commentors here are in fact pedophiles. Even if you seperate all the Jehovah’s witnesses there are still a large number. Now to accuse a whole group or people of a specific crime or sin based on the actions of a few suddenly doesn’t make alot of sense anymore, does it? The greatest lesson to learn from all this shouldn’t be to hate a denomination because it’s easy to place blame, but to carefully scrutinize whom we trust our children with, regardless of our predisposed notions of whose trustworthy and whose not.
Your grip on reality is so far gone you’ll accuse anyone of the strangest things and i’m just talking about your comment to the administrator.
Dead sea scrolls.
Wow! you make yourself look worse than anyone else. Tell you what, why don’t you post your address and real name? or did you think your comment was the end all to any argument on the internet? You have no faith, hope, joy, or life otherwise you wouldn’t be here.
For he sake of people you come into contact with each day please get help.
Dear Rhodar,
in any society the Towers of All Terrors recruits the worst of the worst from among the scum and pukes of that given society.
This is one reason why your misgivings about the Towers of All Terrors are fairly naive.
Secondly the name itself of such loathsome and repellent society (Towers of All Terrors) should be enough to answer any question about said underworld cockroachish blackwaters’ gnawers and to give ya the creeps as well.
Thirdly you’ve gotta know that their leaders are the self-appointed and SELF-LABELLED lowlives of the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger.
Ya read me?
Why do you prevent people from getting married to people who are not members of the church?
In Ghana, men in Jehovah witnesses congretations do not get married early there by making the women grow very old before getting married. As a result of this most women cannot have children or have children through operation which sometings kill them or the babies since they are not allowed to take blood transfusioin.
I think marriage can only work when they is love and not one marries because one is too old.
Most jehovah witness women have been turned secretly into prostitutes to satisfy their sexual desire only to wait for men in the congregation to come and marry them.
Men in the congregations do not educate them selves and most of them are unemployed and therefore wait to get married to a working women who are getting old and whish to settle down with a man and take ful care of the family.
Why would it be surprising then if a man truns into a phedophile. They most of the time get married to women they do not love and are restricted to show their true characters.
for all christians and jehov-ordure witlesses in particular,
DO YOU WISH TO REALLY KNOW JESUS THE CHRISTO AND HIS FATHER YHWH?
THEN WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO IS TO GIVE A THOROUGH READING TO THE SITE :
‘SET FREE FROM JESUS’.
IF YOU WISH TO READ THE BIBLE IN AN INTELLIGENT WAY THEN GO TO THE ‘SKEPTICS ANNOTATED BIBLE’ SITE.
these sites helped me very very much.
GET A FEEL OF THE REAL MONSTERS!
Dear Watchotwer Society
better known as the Towers of All Terrors and led by the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger, I am writing to wish you a great 2008 so that your megalomania can be satiated by the slavery, submission and butt-licking deference of your subjugated grunts and your bank account$ be as fat as a whale, courtesy of your ripped off rank-and-file.
Rethorical question #1: are you guys of the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger gonna be drunk with the blood of minor dying cos of the blood doctrine?
Rethorical question #2:Are you gonna jerk off at the mention of another endless series of wondrous works by the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger-protected PAEDOPHILES that people your congregations???
I think so cos this is exactly what your roachlike subgod jehovordure/jehowhore wants and needs and demands from his brainless, demon-possessed stenchy scum-fiends that worship such stunted and pathetic phallic symbol. You know where it belongs, don’t you?
I personally don’t care where you live, as you are a JW and therefore apparently hang out with pedophiles. By the way, JW’s are cowards. They are all talk, nothing more.