I believe this lawsuit was filed in November 2003, Placer County, California.
http://silentlambs.org/newsletter/NewsLetterItem.cfm?SendoutID=159
Plaintiffs vs. WATCHTOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK, INC., WATCHTOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY OF P ENNSYLVANIA, INC., CHRISTIAN CONGREGATION OF JEHOVAH?S WITNESSES, SUNSET CONGREGATION OF JEHOVAH?S WITNESSES, DEREK P ACKOWSKI and DOES 1 through 20, ,
Complaint for Damages 1. Sexual Battery 2. Common Law Negligence 3. Gross Negligence-Willful Misconduct 4. Breach of Fiduciary Duty 5. Intentional Infliction of Emotion Distress 6. Fraud - Intentional Misrepresentation 7. Fraud - Concealment 8. Conspiracy
Elders, Ministerial Servants, P ioneers, agents, volunteers and other leaders and representatives of the WATCHTOWER DEFENDANTS? organization have used their positions of control, authority, and leadership within the WATCHTOWER DEFENDANTS? organization to sexually abuse minors. They have utilized a policy and engaged in a pattern of practice to ?cover up? incidences of sexual abuse of children. In instances of sexual abuse by one member of a Jehovah?s Witnesses? congregation on another member have been brought to attention of the WATCHTOWER DEFENDANTS, who failed to notify appropriate legal authorities, parents of victims, and/ or other individuals who could assist and/or protect these victims of childhood sexual abuse, in an attempt to cover-up the instances of sexual abuse and avoid any potential legal liability, thereby allowing further acts of sexual abuse to be committed on minors, including P laintiffs.
WATCHTOWER DEFENDANTS engaged in a systematic, conspira tori al pattern and practice of suppression of information to cover-up and hide incidents of child molestation from law enforcement and their membership in order to protect those within the WATCHTOWER DEFENDANTS? organization who committed acts of sexual molestation against children and to avoid civil liability arising from the instances of sexual abuse. The WATCHTOWER DEFENDANTS have likewise engaged in the routine practice of maintaining secret archival files regarding sexual abuse by Elders, Ministerial Servants, P ioneers, and other leaders in the organization. The existence of these files and the contents thereof were not disclosed to or made available to law enforcement authorities or others in order to investigate the crimes of these leaders and others in the WATCHTOWER DEFENDANTS? organization. The WATCHTOWER DEFENDANTS furthered this conspiracy of concealment, by amon g other things, failing to properly report complaints of sexual misconduct to law enforcement authorities and failing to remove molesting leaders and others, or preventing their access to children. Molesting leaders and others in the organization were allowed to remain in good standing in the organization and were allowed continued frequent and unsupervised access to children in the organization.
Plaintiffs further allege WATCHTOWER DEFENDANTS intentionally failed to disclose important facts to Plaintiffs, namely that Defendant DEREK PACKOWSKI, a known sexual abuser, was safe be around and that they could interact unsupervised with Defendant DEREK PACKOWSKI despite WATCHTOWER DEFENDANTS? knowledge of Defendant DEREK PACKOWSKI?S propensities to sexual molest and abuse children.