if so, did it bother you that he had been reprooved and forgiven rather than reported to the police?
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| looloo | did anyone on here ever have a paedophile in thier congregation? | |
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| MominAustin | Re: did anyone on here ever have a paedophile in thier congregation? | |
If I did - no one ever knew it :( - which is scary. | ||
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| Maddie | TRe: did anyone on here ever have a paedophile in thier congregation? | |
Thats the problem, I would not of known if there was Maddie | ||
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| feenx | Re: did anyone on here ever have a paedophile in thier congregation? | |
I think at the time when I was around an abuser in my hall my boundaries and sense of "reality" in that area were so blurred it was hard for me think about him being reported to the police, or anybody being reported. As far as I saw things the Elders were "the law". All my stuff with my own grandfather had never been reported, why would this guy? My parents knew, or at the very least had a really good idea, of what was going on with this guy and his family. And I know of at least one occasion when he lost all his privileges, whether he was reproved or not I don't know, there was never an announcement made. That was the extent of it. And I believe the Elders were encouraging the wife at first to stay with him, then that changed and they allowed a separation. She switched halls, the daughter did her own thing and the husband moved across the country. Now the mother is not active, the daughter is totally out and as far as anyone knows the father is still in perfectly good standing. | ||
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| ElectricJello | Re: did anyone on here ever have a paedophile in thier congregation? | |
I didnt think we did until... This one MS would take my sister and I down to the river look for cool rocks, agates. I was 9 and my sister was 6. Being 9 I wasnt in the know about what was going on but all of a sudden he didnt take us any more and he moved away. A few months back I asked my mum about what the heck happened? I said I remembered somethings about it and how a few times I would be out looking for rocks while he sat in the truck with my sister. I specifically remember once looking at the truck and my sister was looking out at me asking me for help with her eyes. Pains me to this day that I didnt think anything was going on. Anyway, couldnt get much info out of her but I did find out nothing was ever done about him. He wasnt reproved or anything. If I could get my hands on this guy today......there wouldn't be much left of him when I was finished. But I understand he's a missionary in Africa now. Not too sure on this one though. | ||
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| arwen | Re: did anyone on here ever have a paedophile in thier congregation? | |
We had a guy..he was df for awhile.. rumor had it that he was cheating his workplace but who knows.. later he was reinstated..He wife and two young sons were not well mentally. At our BS the kids would rock back and forth for the hour..he would give them a smack and they would rock more.. He was 30 years older than her.. she met him thru his daughter when she was a teen. He was a real nut. She worked with my husband for awhile and he would come into the store and say.. WOMAN, its time for lunch.. ..he always just called her Woman!.. a few years later he was arrested for sexual touching of a minor under 14...and spent time in jail.. she ended up in the mental ward of the hosp..and is kind of a zombie now. After his arrest, one of my friend's daughter said he used to tell her and other kids to get some candy out of his pocket at the meetings... what a sicko.. I had a young daughter then too and no one"in authority" at the KH ever told me that he was arrested or in jail or anything about what he had done... I saw him at the last memorial that I went too. He looked like he was just fine!!! | ||
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| sandy | Re: did anyone on here ever have a paedophile in thier congregation? | |
We had a teenager who got busted for messing with a little kid his mother care for. I don't think the kid's family were witnesses. The guy was formerly accused by a real court and had to go to juvenile hall and then some type of recovery halfway house. He was df'ed and we had no idea why and no idea where he disappeared to.
But we were not in the dark for too long about it. Thank goodness for elder blabber-mouth who used to gossip to his family about all those who had to go before the elders in jc meetings. For once his blabbering did some good. When the teenager came back and go reinstated people knew to keep a close eye on their children. | ||
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| Eyes Open | Re: Re: did anyone on here ever have a paedophile in thier congregation? | |
I didnt think we did until... Oh crap, so sorry to hear that ElectricJello. | ||
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9 is no age - you couldn't have known.| cognac | Re: did anyone on here ever have a paedophile in thier congregation? | |
actually, there was one in my hall but he did get reported (i think by his wife) and went to jail for years... | ||
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| Burger Time | Re: Re: did anyone on here ever have a paedophile in thier congregation? | |
My Mom's sister's husband was a formal elder and got DF'd. It then came out he was molesting my cousins. He was reported to the police and evidently was still going to meetings trying to get reinstated. It was a huge scandal at the hall. My cousins are both really fucked now because of it. He got like 10 years in prison for it or something like that. | ||
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| Mickey mouse | Re: did anyone on here ever have a paedophile in thier congregation? | |
I have known at least two, both presiding overseers! One DF, the other just removed as an elder and reproved. | ||
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| Odrade | Re: did anyone on here ever have a paedophile in thier congregation? | |
One convicted, public reproof. Jail on work release program. Restraining order was not respected by the elders, in fact only some of them knew about it apparently. Two others known, un-df'd. | ||
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| avishai | Re: did anyone on here ever have a paedophile in thier congregation? | |
Yes, yes, and yes. | ||
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| Vivamus | Re: did anyone on here ever have a paedophile in thier congregation? | |
We had a Hindu brother who fell in love with a 13 year old. He stalked her, stood for her house screaming that her parents were keeping them from their *love*. The elders reproved him and send him to the another cong (same city tho). He kapt harrassing her. She got an alarm-phone, her father was a wreck ... and the brothers did nothing, they said that to put the Hindu brother for a worthly court of justice (in other words the police) would be a sign of not trusting Jah.. I don't know the outcome -- I left then. | ||
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| stillajwexelder | Re: did anyone on here ever have a paedophile in thier congregation? | |
In EVERY congregation I have been in, there has been minimum of 1 | ||
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| megaflower | Re: did anyone on here ever have a paedophile in thier congregation? | |
We had a family where there was incest. The 4 year old girl was being molested by her brother. The elders gave a talk and said not to go to the authorities and that it would be handled-whatever that means. This event happened in the early 90's so that poor little girl is grown now and Iam sure has some problems. | ||
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| Tatiana | Re: did anyone on here ever have a paedophile in thier congregation? | |
Yes, and he only went to a hospital for a month for alleged schizophrenia. WTH has that got to do with molesting kids? Anyway, on this thread alone, there are 12 or 13 that were known, and yet we're to believe it's "rare?" | ||
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| avishai | Re: did anyone on here ever have a paedophile in thier congregation? | |
Hell, there were TWO that I know of that one cong. covered up and were later CONVICTED. One was my bro's molester, Troy christian mckenzie, another, now deceased named Don Seargent.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/38146/1.ashx and http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/8/46670/1.ashx Wait, make that three, though not convicted that i know of, so I won't say his name. I believe he's either an elder or an MS now. But they knew about it, he admitted it, etc. They just never turned his ass in. | ||
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| orangefatcat | Re: did anyone on here ever have a paedophile in thier congregation? | |
I knew of one in our congregation and when I moved to the town I now reside there was an overseer he'd been a missionary with his wife in Africa. After moving back from that country he was eventually disfellowshipped, it was a well known fact that he had molested some really beautifl young sisters. What sicko's, I believe it was only corrected on a congregational level , I don't think he ever went to jail. He should have for what he'd done both in Africa and in my town I loathe men like that. They need their gonads chopped off. Yet that still is to good for them. Orangefatcat. | ||
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| avishai | Re: Re: did anyone on here ever have a paedophile in thier congregation? | |
I loathe men like that. They need their gonads chopped off. Yet that still is to good for them. | ||
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