This months awake cover

In the above case here , he was 36 she was 13 when the felony crime of pedophilia sexual assault by the Jehovah's Witnesses elder began

It will never end while the society hold their "clean" reputation, which
looks more and more tarnished every day to anyone but a braindead
jw, in higher regard than the safety of innocent children.

While paedophiles are allowed to roam unchecked and unreported in
their kingdom halls, and even be given positions of responsibility in
congregations, then no child will be safe.

It's no wonder that the watchtower attracts paedophiles. They have
no need to wait for the promised paradise. They are there already,
from the moment they join up.

Wendell Willick Jehovah's Witnesses child molestor pedophile

Willick's lawyer Daryl Labach said his client voluntarily gave up his role as an elder in the church several years ago, in part because of the allegations, and left the church entirely in 2004.

The woman went to police with allegations concerning Willick in 2004.

"This whole situation with the complainant had nothing to do with his being an elder at the church," Labach said. "He said the church had absolutely nothing to do with this. The fault's all his.

"He was counselling her as a friend of the family. They were all good friends because they all happened to go to the same church. That's just where they met. He was just trying to help her out in the context of being a good family friend because she had so many problems. Things just ended up going to another level, which he says they shouldn't have."

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Look at this WTBS CYA subterfuge,now if he was a Catholic Priest would this fly?

There's his "Divine theocratic education" kicking in.

Elders are taught to question the victims of child abuse to see if they were "willing", or "leading on", or "initiating" the contact, thus giving opportunity to reduce the "sentence" on the perpetrator.

This guy apparently bought the hype.

Oh, this is going to be interesting.  I live just down the road from Saskatoon (well, 150 miles, but Regina and Saskatoon are sort of sister cities).  My parents lived there in 1996.  My df'd sister and numerous relatives still live there.

I don't think I've ever met brother Wendell, but I will have to search the old memory repositories for his name.  I assume it will show up in my local paper in a day or two.