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HUGE ONLINE COMPILATION ABOUT WATCHTOWER OVER JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES ETC: The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society is the group over Jehovah's Witnesses, the Awake and Watchtower magazines being Watchtower publications for public distribution.
Current to about July 10, 2003, the following was compiled and continues to be compiled out of love for our loved ones still among Jehovah's Witnesses who must do as directed by the Watchtower Society over them and also others of the public in general. If you hear other information you may post it to be seen at jehovahs-witness.com or some other website. Items should be regarded as hearsay (possibly true, possibly not or allegations) especially in those relatively few instances where there is no accompanying source documentation.
Abbreviations * marks pedophilia/molestation, + marks blood transfusion refused, # marks suicide, -- indicates some unstated buty alleged problem(s), ! indicates murder, > marks surveillance or wiretapping, $ marks money scandal
Also an = sign appear immediately before various states or provinces and nations so that, if you have received a copy of this online, by going to Edit and selecting Find (on This Page), you can jump quickly to those locations etc.
Probably most JWs including and especially so JW elders would deny that however bad the organization may be seen by some, surely no members have ever used surveillance, wiretapping, harassment or murder, and this shows much documentation does exist for those and or other issues. That other groups such as the Worldwide Church of God and the Church of Scientology are documented by court or other items found on the internet is also a fact. For example see paragraph 6 of http://www.herbertwarmstrong.com/ar/AR19.html and regarding the COS and Mormons or LDS church see endnotes here at the end.
Again, though, be reminded that the compilation you are about to read is done as an act of love to help provide more protective guidance and awareness, and sincere reasonable efforts to be fair and accurate and give documentation have been applied to the very best extent possible as seen for example where positive comments about congregations are also included. Readers are welcome to add their own comments or amendments wherever this may appear posted on the internet.
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=ALASKA: Special Comment: Several persons in and outside Alaska have commented that there is too much class (rich-versus-poor) consciousness among JW congregations in the state.
=ARIZONA: Phoenix: Mrs J Christian died March 1968 at Good Samaritan Hospital after refusing blood transfusions: Scottsdale: Shea Heights: favoritism etc Tempe -- Wickenburg: infighting,jealousy, self-rightousness Tuscon -- , Andrew James Burns died 8-29-98 at St Mary's Hospital after not receiving blood transfusions(ajwrb which means from the original ajwrb.com website or a friendly source within ajwrb which means Associated JWs For Reform on Blood)
=CALIFORNIA: Tony Mendez died 6-6-95 at Arroyo Grande Community Hopsital after refusing blood transfusions + (ajwrb) ANAHEIM: Rosario Rios Villagomez (51, husband Freddy) died after refusing a blood transfusion at Martin Luther King Hospital in early 1999 and a Watchtower representative blamed her gallstones instead of the bleeding+ (ajwrb) CAHOGA PARK: Brendon Hood (4 years old) died late January or early February [year not supplied] after parents refused blood transfusions + (ajwrb) CHINO HILLS & Chino North: many hypocrite pioneer "elderettes," gossiping, greed, nepotism, cliques, Steve Morales a former Bethelite was convicted for serial rape * (courtesy of Kent Steinhaug and verified in news account) COSTA MESA: on/about June 2001 a 17-year-old girl was arrested after she drove by on a bike & threw a homemade bomb into a Kingdom Hall in the 2200 block of Canyon Drive about 9:20 PM though it bounced so that there were no injuries or property damage DOWNEY: Downey North Congregation: Gary L Kreider (in late 40s) hanged himself 12-96 FRESNO: Lenae Martinez (12) died 9-22-93 at Valley Children's Hospital agreeing with her parents in refusing blood transfusion GRIDLEY: egotism, nepotism, judgmentalism, pedophilia*
LOS ANGELES: doctors at Children's Hospital Los Angeles were successful in 2001 when having to use bloodless surgery to save 7 month old Aiden Michael Rush who was born with an obstructed bile duct & had developed liver disease www.infectioncontroltoday.com/articles/141news.html) MIRA MESA extreme nepotism then separated out
SACRAMENTO: "I have received information relating to individuals who allegedly molested children at Sacremento State Prep School in Sac, California, a JW school. If you have any information please contact me.
Kimberlee D. Norris, attorney at law, kdnorris@ airmail.net, 817.335.2800
Reports of multiple offenders at this institution..."
(www.lovenorrisattonrneys.com)
SAN LUIS OBISPO: Judy Granvold (38) died May 1985 after refusing blood transfusion + (ajwrb) SANTA BARBARA NORTH, SOUTH & SAN ROQUE: soap opera-like intermarriage intrigues SANTA CRUZ NORTH -- also in Santa Barbara at Cottage Hospital Frank Blanchet (49) bled to death 5-20-98 from abdominal gunshot wound after refusing transfusions+ (ajwrb) STOCKTON: John Alson (47) died August 1992 at San Joaquin General Hospital after refusing blood transfusion VISALIA: Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses at 5310 Caldwell Ave: a jury was not able to convict Jehovah's Witness elder Louis Angiuano of molesting a 12 year old girl + (ajwrb) Discussed at: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/11/52139/1.ashxhttp://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/news/stories/20030517/localnews/318666.html http://www.fresnobee.com/local/crime/story/6028329p-6984534c.html CALIFORNIA IN GENERAL: Anita Brown died 6-17-1980 after refusing blood transfusions (ajwrb)
SPECIAL COMMENT: The state of California probably has the most or greatest percentage of JW's in the United States. One comment (no proof) has been that two main leaders among ex-JWs groups in California are actually pro-Watchtower moles which is why activities there are kept relatively quiet. On the other hand, anti-cult internet work by Randall Watters (freeminds.org) has been especially intensive and effective. His freeminds.org website includes current information and books about the WTS including Letters to the Editor-Book Two: 1989 to 1995 which tells of spying among JWs.
=COLORADO: Boulder: Leland Elwyn Davies pedophilia * Estes Park: "If you were molested in the Estes Park, Colo congregation please contact me at [email protected] or 817.335.2800 Kimberlee D. Norris attorney at law" More possible details at http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/8/38625/1.ashx
=CONNECTICUT: Hartford: although he lived Hartford Hospital & Connecticut Children's Medical Center doctors were forced by Margarita Vazquez to operate on son Gabriel Vazquez to deliver him without using blood transfusion via Caesarean section while also removing a cyst (1-23-02 By Wm Hathway, Courant Staff Writer http://www.ctnow.com/news/health/hc-noblood0123.artjan23.story?
coll=hc%2Dheadlines%2Dhealth) CONNECTICUTT: Danielson -- North Stonington -- Putnam --
=FLORIDA: BRANDON: (23) died 1983 after refusing blood transfusion KERN: Jeffrey Borilla (25) died May 1986 of over-sedation in county hospital apparently in blood refusal situation MIAMI: Mark Ramsey (27) died February 1981 after refusing blood transfusions + (ajwrb) ORLANDO Largo: Donald MacDonald (27) died in Largo of leukemia after refusing blood 2-2-1986 Cedric Thames (23) died 1991 & relatives refused blood transfusions for him + (ajwrb) TALLAHASSEE: Bridget Warner (21) died April 1986 at Tallahassee Memorial Regional Medical Center & had refused blood transfusions + (ajwrb) TAMPA: RIO GRANDE: nice, loving FLORIDA IN GENERAL: Thomas Poole (37) died March 1991 & had refused blood transfusions + (ajwrb) Raymond L. Knowles was convicted of cheating numerous other Jehovah's Witnesses out of millions of dollars. The article was in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Sentencing hearing is scheduled for Jan. 9 before U.S. District Court Judge Donald L. Graham. Details with photo were posted by Cynthia Hampton at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/exjehovahwitnessescalifornia/message/4039 $
Special Comment: several of the larger JW congregations in Florida are said to have problems of gross misleadership. One hall in the middle of the state may have seceded in the 1980s or had a number of people deleted for partaking of memorial (Last Supper) emblems
=GEORGIA: Warner Robbins: in the early 1980s had mass deletions and
disfellowshippings
=ILLINOIS: Addison (favoritism, unwanted sexual advances) Canterbury in Markham: favoritism, snobbery Glen Ellen: fast-talking, backstabbing, Wicker Park in Chicago --, Congregation & area in Chicago: 2 females both bled to death giving birth late 1997 Illinois In General: in 1951 when the state of Illinois authorized a transfusion for 6 year old Cheryl Labrenz who had leukemia to save her life since her parents knew the girl would die without the transfusions but believed that their righteous action will enable her to be resurrected INDIANA: Kokomo: Walter Swisher (37) died 5-6-94 at home + (ajwrb) Richmond (incompetence)
=KENTUCKY: Draffensville close to Paducah: multiple pedophiles, *** severe harassment of Bill Bowen for who revealed the pedophilia & resides near Paducah; see his www.silentlambs.org website Kentucky In General: Kim Straton (33) died July 1981 in Kentucky after he refused a blood transfusion + (ajwrb)
=MAINE: Augusta: pedophilia with Larry Baker convicted *
=MASSACHUSETTS: CAMBRIDGE: lording it, arrogance Arvid Moody (68) died June 1978 after refusing kidney transplant + (ajwrb) DORECHESTER: Using attorney Stephen M. Born a 14-year-old Dorchester girl and her parents sued the Watchtower Society for covering up sexual abuse from Ronald, son of elder William Broadard, and discouraging her parents from reporting the abuse to police or prosecutors. William Broadard and other elders gave him only reproof while letting him continue as with his priveleges and title of "pioneer" (door-to-door minister) even though he had had committed pedophilia before. (This was on page B1 of the Boston Globe on January 1, 2003, for writer Katheleen Burge email [email protected], an online copy was at http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/001/metro/Suit_charges_church_coverup+.shtml and it is reprinted with a discussion at http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/43613/1.ashx EAST SOUTHBRIDGE: nepotism NORTH ATLEBORO:
Ralph Heroux (74) of East Providence got one year in prison and two years of home confinement for sexually assaulting his young stepdaughter and her male cousin in the 1970s. When committing the crime in 1976 through 1978 he was a Ministerial Servant in the Kingdom Hall in North Attleboro. For details:
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7590377&BRD=1713&PAG=461&dept_id=24491&rfi=6 copy of April 3, 2003 AP report from New Bedford, Massachusetts, and also at http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/48025/703174/post.ashx#703174
OXFORD Congregation Sharon -- GROTON: Alleged possible "Paedophiles in cardiff north road congregation" http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/31782/1.ashx WILTON: apparent reference to pedophilia at http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/8/43624/1.ashx WORCESTER SOUTH -- WORCESTER NORTH -- Massachusetts In General: Eleanor L. Maurer (31) died September 1979 after refusing blood transfusions
=MICHIGAN: ALPENA: the Circuit Court ruled in favor of Dr Michael Taylor who was sued by Cindy Werth for transfusing blood to her in a post-childbirth crisis for Werth said it violated her religion the court said it saved her life (11/7/89) DETROIT: Charles Williams (33) died 7-12-81 after refusing blood transfusions, Kevin Rattenbury (14) was injured by a car hitting his moped 8-6-91 & died after his parents George & Betty of Chesterfield Township refused an emergency blood transfusion at Mt. Clemens General Hospital + (ajwrb) WEB-D WROTE REGARDING JEHOVAH'S WITNESS SUICIDES AROUND DETROIT: Emailed With Name Withheld As Asked) "I know of quite a few suicides. Some may not be directly related to WT, but all of these folks were JW's. All of these occurred in Michigan (the Detroit area) 1) Young Brother (22 yrs old) adopted by JW's committed suicide by hanging himself. 2) Brother approximatley 50 years old (was DF'd at the time) killed himself. He and his wife had divorced. They had one adult daughter. 3) Middle aged woman walked out into the water and drowned. It was said she could not take it any longer as her last child had been DF'd and could no longer talk to her. 4) Middle aged man (murder/suicide) killed wife, kids, then himself. I believe he had been recently DF'd when it happened." Emailed (Name Withheld As Asked) "I was raised as a witness and was disfellowshipped in 1991 when I was 21 years old. In retrospect I remember the suicide of 3 people in the different congregations that I attended. I used to work with a man that is still a witness. 3 years ago he walked into his apartment to find his roommate had committed suicide. It was later revealed that his roommate was to be disfellowshipped the following Thursday.. The is a strong correlation between suicide and being DFed. When I was disfellowshipped I was suicidal. Although I never attempted any harm to myself I did struggle with the feelings and thoughts." HOLLY: George Crabtree died 1966 Did not have needed surgery due to blood doctrine. OWOSSO: Kelly Brooks died in summer of 1984 after blood transfusions were refused MICHIGAN IN GENERAL: Kevin Rattenbury (14) died August 1991 agreeing with parents to refuse blood transfusions + (ajwrb)
=MINNESOTA: Detroit: Elizabeth Sample (57) died May 1988 after refusing blood + (ajwrb) St Paul: Minel Koehler (19) died April 1992 at St. Luke's Medical Center & had refused blood transfusions + (ajwrb) In 2003 the Watchtower Society admitted that Darryl Willis, 64, Helena, and Dale Erickson, 54, Missoula, were convicted of stealing 6.4 million dollars from 101 year old fellow Jehovah's Witness Una Anderson, and her family expressed angry about involvement by other JW members including elder Mike Murphy of Deer Lodge -- A question is if any of the money was sent to the WTS and if they returned any $
http://www.helenair.com/articles/2003/05/23/montana/a09052303_02.txt
Heidi Meyer and Amber Long mentioned on CNN that they were sexually molested by Derrick Lindelah (ph) but elders did nothing and kept him "in good standing" while warning they must not tell others http://silentlambs.org/education/CNNtranscript.cfm on CNN/Connie Chung 08/14/02
=MISSISSIPPI: Natchez: Barbara Clay (78) died 11-6-97 of heart failure after refusing transfusion + (ajwrb) Hattiesburg West: arrogance, overlording, wasteful, gunfighter mentality Hattiesburg Central: wasteful Hattiesburg Central: dictatorial, racist comment, verbally trimmed young girl who left home due to abuse as "disobediant" & forced resignation of elder who helped her, etc Hattiesburg East: reverse racism, nepotism Petal Congregation: comment unclear about "rednecks" loving children in "their lap" (?) Columbia: long overdue interrogating of girl insensitively about a "brother" said to have exposed himself
=MISSOURI: CABOOL: pedophilia regarding Robert Eisenhouer with case going to state supreme court which ruled the clergy (elders) could refuse to give information to police as it would violate ecclesiastical priveleges friendship briefs in favor of the Jehovah's Witness elders filed by the Christian Legal Society and the Missouri East and West Annual Conferences of the United Methodist Church and the National Association of Evangelicals in or about February 2001 * CAMDENTON suicide by unnamed man in 2001 who lay on railroad track # CAMERON or vicinity: molestation/incest* HANNIBAL: greed, arrogance
INDEPENDENCE: Noland Congregation suicide of Vonda (Hayes) James wife of Richard Hayes who was disfellowshipped # JEFFERSON CITY: Estella Conroy in her 50s died 9-3-1990 refusing blood transfusion + (ajwrb) RICHMOND: pedophilia, Ministerial Servant Tim Gardner convicted (Richmond newspaper: Daily News 2-3-99) * in 1980s elder body deleted though then Presiding Overseer Warren Johnson later reappointed after internationally mailed letter and statements alleged criminal wiretapping, undue harshness toward rank-and-file over spousal oral sex, incompetence etc > SIKESTON: severe nepotism, greed SPRINGFIELD area congregations: some very cold & greedy ST LOUIS: In the 1980s some elders donned sacks and protested outside a convention site. GENERAL COMMENTS: many congregations have clear indications of cult spying, both visual and electronic; the second Watchtower Society President Joseph Franklin Rutherford was from the Boonville area
=NEVADA: pedophilia Elder Daniel Stevens Fitzwater formerly of Wood Heights near Yerington NV (80 mi sw of Reno) was convicted of lewdness with a then 8 yr old girl (Las Vegas Sun 3-16-98)*
=NEW HAMPSHIRE: Hollis: pedophilia, Gregory Blackstock convicted * Wilton: pedophilia, Paul Berry convicted * Special Comment: Indications are that there may be additional lawsuits in and around the state of New Hampshire. Fundamentalists have also been more active here
=NEW JERSEY: Bradly Beach: harboring molestor & shunning victim, nepotism Hawthorne: pedophilia * Hackensack: pedophilia * HATBORO on route 263 in Warminster: spying, coverups of affairs, nepotism JACKSON: pedophilia/statutory rape incident * JERSEY CITY: John Perricone (3) died 3-4-61 at Pollack Hospital after parents refused blood transfusions + (ajwrb) NOTTINGHAM: paranoia, harassment PARAMUS: Clement Pandelo pedophilia * PEMBERTON/BROWNS MILLS: greed RAMAPO: pedophilia * PATERSON: ignoring incest PESCACK: Lora Jaudon (29) died April 1989 at Pescack Valley Hospital & she had refused blood transfusions + (ajwrb)
In JFK Memorial Hospital v. Heston, 58 N.J. 576, 279 A.2d 670 (1971), the New Jersey Supreme Court ordered a blood transfusion for a 22-year-old JW injured in an accident saying "It seems correct to say there is no constitutional right to choose to die. Attempted suicide was a crime at common law and was held to be a crime [in New Jersey]. It is now denounced as a disorderly persons offense." 58 N.J. at 580, 279 A.2d at 672. Garden City resident Arthur Cruz (age 71) in 2002 was acquited of molesting his granddaughter and two great-
granddaughters, their mother backing him, and boasted afterwards no one would jail a Jehovah's Witness *
=NEW MEXICO: Special Comment: This state may have one of the largest concentrations of Hispanic JWs. Therefore anti-cult work here needs to involve more usage of Spanish-language materials.
=NEW YORK: ALBANY: Buck Parker (age: 1 day) died 2-11-1986 after mother refused blood transfusion & before hospital could get a court order BUFFALO: Joanne Mangione (30) died 3:30 pm 12-6-1990 at Sister's Hospital & had refused blood transfusion + (http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/19219/1.ashx)
BROOKLYN: Pat Garza publicly stated to news media while before Watchtower world headquarters in Brooklyn that sitting Governing Body member Ted Jaracz molested her when he was a District Overseer in Los Angeles, California, and although Jaracz was asked to comment about the allegation he refused to do so. She said this at a silentlambs.org demonstration protesting Watchtower pedophilia policies. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/2919/test.html
In 1984 Jehovah's Witness wordwide Governing Body member Leo K. Greenlees was convicted by the rest of the Governing Body of molesting a young boy and reassigned instead of disfellowshipped (many sources including alanf00@a... on http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?
id=5466&site=3#131403) Friends who are in and have been in Brooklyn and area report that the congregations' elders act extra nice and for unexplained reasons they also go extra easy on child molestation. A note from "Shelby" says on Friday Oct. 31 1973 at Bethel about 9:30 firefighters recovered the body of Bethelite James Olsen who had suicided http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=23826&site=3
Paul Blizard has written about spying at Brooklyn. Speaking of secret operations in another state he went to after Brooklyn, he states "As I gained status in the congregation, I was being exposed to and trained in some of the undercover work of the local elders. It was exciting slinking around in the darkness, spying on members of the congregation who were suspected of wrongdoing. I also was given access to the congregation files, which revealed the inside information of all in the congregation. I was being used in the same kind of covert operations I had seen control the workers at headquarters." Blizzard and wife Pat quit the Watchtower Society after its anti-transfusion teaching involved the life of daughter Jenny who eventually died. Paul became a Baptist minister. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/2919/test.html watchthetower@ bigfoot.com >
Randy Watters of freeminds.org has noted that Richard Wheelock lept to death at Bethel, Thomas Hagen suicided not long after leaving Bethel, and more that a few others have suicided there or immediately after leaving there. Some at Bethel have reported seeing what may be an electonic visual projection made to resemble "a demon" and among various cults usage is made of such projections, FM transmitted sounds and voices, audial survelliance via infinity mikes and hook switch by-pass of telephones even when hung on receivers as noted by various posters including anewperson at http://www.jehovahs-
witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=24274&site=3#306249 > OGDENSBURG: elder body & some pioneers removed plus 8 disfellowshipped about 1985 & elders in nearby Mssen may also have been involved
PATTERSON: "In the spring of 2002, I was contacted by three different sources who claimed to have connected with people inside the headquarters of the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of New York, located in Patterson , New York . These insiders provided my contacts with a computer data base number of 23,720 child molesters on file there. The files labeled as the “specialized shepherding arrangement” is a front for reporting child molesters to home office. Patterson is the location for the Service and Legal Departments of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, now calling itself the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses of New York, and it is in these two departments where these highly confidential files are kept" stated Bill Bowen at http://silentlambs.org/answers/23720.cfm QUEENS: Lysa Biffle died December 1989 at Queens General Hospital & had refused blood or blood products + (ajwrb)
30 Years A Watchtower Slave: Confessions of a Converted Jehovah's Witness, a book by William J.Schnell who in the early 1900s was in Brooklyn and also served the Watchtower Society as a Zone Overseer, gives interesting details about Watchtower spying operations conducted visually rather than electronically. >
SPECIAL COMMENT: The state of New York has of course the world headquarters of the Watchtower Society at Brooklyn. Unknown to even most elders including on the Governing Body itself the Watchtower Society appears to have pretend ex-JWs who pretend to be mental cases doing much of the anti-Watchtower "anti-cult" work here to discourage more effect real anti-cult activity in and around its Bethel headquarters complex NEW YORK IN GENERAL: Jonathan Parker murdered officer Charles "Skip" McDougal Oct 1998 !
=NORTH CAROLINA: Millbrook in Raleigh: class snobbery OHIO: Cleveland: Doreen Nielson (49) died 9-19-91 & had refused blood transfusions+ (ajwrb) Medina: insensitive verbal abuses Wellsville: registered with Stratton village for door-to-door sales then sued it Wadsworth: Devon Brannan in his early 30's died 1986 by suicide after being disfellowshipped #
=OKLAHOMA: Oklahoma County area: late Dec 2001 mother Mali Prougue (20) & her husband refused blood transfusions for their nearly 3 month old infant but a court intervened to save his life Tulsa: on 5-8-99 to save a newborn's life Hillcrest Medical Center had to go to court to save a newborn's life via blood transfusion while the parents, grandmother Marcella Buckland and JW Hospital Liason Committe person Matthew Suddock spoke against it
=OREGON: BROOKINGS: Elsie Wilson (61) died 1992 by suicide after being disfellowshipped for tobacco use # EAGLE POINT: business improprieties, dishonesty GRANTS PASS: "If you were molested by LLOYD CLINE or any other elder or member with authority in GRANTS PASS, OREGON please contact me at [email protected] or If you were molested by LLOYD CLINE or any other elder or member with authority in GRANTS PASS, OREGON please contact me at [email protected] or 817.335.2800. Your information could help save another victim from abuse at the hands of this perpetrator. Kimberlee D. Norris attorney at law [email protected] 817.335.2800 314 Main st suite 300
Fort Worth, Texas 76102 fax 817.335.2912" KEIZER: Ernie Miranda in his early 30s died in 1989 or 1990 of suicide with gunshot wound to head # MCMINNVILLE: March 2002 multiple murder/suicide of the whole Robert Bryant family after JW Elders in California had disfellowshipped Robert for dissenting on Bible views REDMOND: Judy Kohler in her 40s died during 1983-88 from suicide #; special note: Mcminnville has also had cooperation between Scientologists and Fundamentalists (rickross.com) ROGUE RIVER: (business improprieties, dishonesty Shady Cove business improprieties, dishonesty YAKINA BAY or area: Christian Longo a former JW murdered his whole JW family and was on FBI's most wanted in January 2002 till captured
=PENNSYLVANIA: Hatboro --, Lansdale: molesters,* gossiping, abuse of power, favoritism Oreland just north of Philadelphia: fierce loyalty to Brooklyn, lying, gossiping, cliquish, arrogance, mishndling incest*, power hunger SOUTH CAROLINA: Andrews, gossiping, snobbery, mean-spirited, molestation, sex scandals Charleston (all 10 halls), Laurens: sex scandals, favortism SOUTH DAKOTA: Rapid City one the "coldest" ever, harshness, only poor pioneers became elders
=TEXAS: BRADY: gross incompetence HOUSTON: in state district court in 1998 testimony was given regarding a then 22 year old unnamed man convicted of sexually abusing his sister (Houston woman) in the late 1980s in a case against the Watchtower Society with attorney Jeffrey Parsons for the WTS while John T McDowell prosecuted; elder Kerry W. "John" Landers testified the WTS wanted such cses handled "in-house" (Houston Chronicle 2-24-98:13 Met Front, 3 Star Edition, Section A) IRVING: on or about 12/06/96 Diego & Tanya Hernandez refused to allow surgeons at Children's Mercy Hospital to perform coorective heart surgery as it would include a blood transfusion in order to save the life of their week old daughter Valerie Marie -fate unknown [edited at the request of family member - authorization to distribute information was not granted to poster]
=SAN ANTONIO (poorer black-white-hispanic very loving Kelsey Crockford (age 2) died 1990 & his parents had refused blood transfusions for him + (ajwrb) Special comment: Many JW congregations in Texas (mostly middle-class up) appear to have a severe lack of love. BONHAM, Texas, had a hall that seceded in the 1980s. Much anti-cult work is based in and done in Texas
=UTAH: 2 in the Ogden area: pedophilia with convictions** Utah In General: Bill Korinek died 7-31-57 after refusing blood transfusions + (ajwrb) VIRGINIA: Petersburg (some drunkenness) Virginia Beach (very welcoming) 23/1998
=WASHINGTON: COLVILLE: tried in 2001 16 year old William Lembcke confessed to killing his parents, a brother & sister after disciplined for secretly videotaping his sister taking a shower ! FALL CITY: unloving, cliques, anti-college, gossiping, greed. KENT-COVINGTON: "It was the Kent Covington congregation, South of Seattle in Washington State. Her name was Janice Maxfield...1977. She was 34, and left two teenage daughters, and her husband, my brother. Their son died at birth, and Janice bled out very fast. She lived a few hours, in a coma. No blood." (Mulan at http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/19219/1.ashx) North and South LYNNWOOD: gossiping, backstabbing PORT TOWNSEND: snobbery and overlording, greed OTHELLO Washington Spanish: pedophilia, Manuel Beliz convicted & imprisoned at Walla Walla * SEATTLE CENTRAL: cold to outsiders) RICHLAND: I began associating in the late 1960s and was baptized in 1970. I believed I had the heavenly calling almost from the beginning of my JW life ... but like most newbies, I refrained from partaking due to the JW culture created by the Society. When I chose to first take the emblems, I was serving as an MS in Richland, Washington. We also had another young Elder who professed his Anointing. My family and I moved just after a major blow-out where 29 JWs were disfellowshipped across 7 or so congregations from southeast Washington to Northeast Oregon and into Idaho, and I think maybe one congregation in Montana. This scenario was mentioned in Jim Penton's book, Apocalypse Delayed. Jim W (jehovahs-witness.com), Leanna Morley said she was abused by a pedophile among JWs when in Washington state and when interviewed she was in Oregon + http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/29/eveningnews/main551557.shtml
=WEST VIRGINIA: East, South and West. corruption, child abuse,* favoritism, selfish Elk Valley of North Charleston: nepotism, pedophilia * Beckley Southglen: child abuse New River: child abuse,* Fidelity Group Inc insurance scam
=WISCONSIN: BRITISH COLUMBIA: OGEMA: Two brothers Robert and Benjamin Moore were shot to death Aug 30 95, and copies of an online police report show some believed perhaps a JW relative murdered them and early on allusion was made to the Watchtower teaching that those who die before Armageddon can be resurrected to live forever. The killings were ruled a suicide but since silentlambs.org revealed the Watchtower Society protects child molestors, many doubtlessly now wonder if the boys may have been murdered to shut them up, possibly by JW elders, so as not to tell on themselves or other JWs who had molested the boys and also since this would embarass the mother organization. Quoting from the non-JW parent on the website below is "1. My son Robert was shot in the left side of his head. Robert was right handed? 2. How can a ten year old have the arm reach and span to shoot himself in the head with a rifle? 3. There was a kitchen knife found at the scene of a crime. Why was is not included in the police reports? 4. The rifle purportedly used was the boys' single shot Remington that took 22 shorts. They were killed with 22 longs. 5. The police claim that one boy killed himself and then the other used the kitchen knife to pry the 'long shell casing' from the gun so he could shoot himself. Can you imagine a boy seeing his brother shot, bleeding, in agony or dead, taking the time to pry out the cartridge and continuing on with his own suicide? 6. The sheriff told me the kitchen knife was sent to the crime lab and it would reveal who was shot last. I found the knife inside the police impound yard, never having been sent to the crime lab. Why the lie? 7.Kmedia interviewed my ex-husband and he told them to interview the police. Doesn't seem the grieving father is too anxious to help....? I know my sons were MURDERED and someone is walking around free because of the power of the WATCHTOWER and the FREEMASONS in this county. Contact [email protected]" http://www.davidicke.net/religiousfrauds/jw/murdered.html
RACINE: Robert Pelzek (22) died August 1968 at St. Luke's Hospital in Racine after refusing blood transfusions + (ajwrb)WAUKEGAN: Unnamed woman injured in traffic bled to death after refusing a blood transfusion + (ajwrb) KENOSHA OR AREA: Gloria H. Carter (54) died on 12-14-89 of massive internal injuries and an elder complained "Even though they made a big deal over the blood issue in Kenosha, that was not the cause of her death." ([Waukegan] News-Sun, 12/15/89)
United States In General: Samuel Andrew Sigfrids died 8-28-2000 after not receiving blood following an accident and signing that he refused a blood while being given morphine, JWs outside the door urging his parents to refuse the treatment; parents disowned his brother for favoring the emergency treatment + (ajwrb) John Truong (24) died 1989 after refusing blood transfusions 4 days + (ajwrb) Juan Ortega (38) died August 1988 as reported on page 6A in Miami of Aug 31, 1988 & had refused blood transfusions + (ajwrb) Ms. - Peyton died under care of Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal & had refused blood transfusions according to public media & Discover magazine of August 1988 + (ajwrb) Unnamed woman (20) died June 1989 & had refused blood transfusions (JAMA)+ (ajwrb) In "Witnesses troubled over blood" (UJW - Spectrum) Shavone Harris wrote "Adrian Yeatts, 15, Lenae Martinez, 12, and Lisa Kusack, 12, were three of 26 children featured in the May 22, 1994, Awake! Magazine, a publication of the Jehovah's Witnesses, and in the article; 'Youths Who Have Power Beyond What Is Normal.' These children suffered from leukemia and were among the many who have died because their religion dictates that they must refuse blood transfusions."
==========================AUSTRALIA=============
ADELAIDE: congregations in western & northern suburbs -- BRISBANE: female (26) bled to death 12-98 refusing blood transfusions at Princess Alexandra & Hospital Hospital Liaison Committee member Dale Irwin saying she had pleased God + ; (ajwrb) Tully Ioannides (f, 18) 12-19-98 refusing blood transfusions also at Princess Alexandra Hospital + (ajwrb) CAIRNS: Siman Rapley (30) died refusing blood transfusion 10-2-96 at Cairns Base Hospital + (ajwrb) CROYDON congregation in Victoria ("dried as dust") ELIZABETH in Adelaide: immaturity, stupidity FULHAM GARDENS in Adelaide: materialistic, snobbery MELBOURNE: on about July 30, 2000 Domenica Asciutto died giving birth after refusing blood transfusion + (ajwrb) Lucia Gangi (age 12) died February 1989 & parents had refused blood transfusions for her + (ajwrb) PARADISE in Adelaide: really materialistic, snobbery PERTH: Subiaco: totally dead, loose conduct, matrialistism, snobbery SYDNEY -- WANNEROO in Western Australia: "DEREK NEIL SMEDLEY v THE QUEEN & ORS [1999] WASCA 1033 ( 23 March 1999 )... Count (6) was that on a date unknown between 1 December 1986 and 31 December 1986 at Wanneroo the applicant unlawfully and indecently assaulted the complainant, a girl under the age of 16 years, by fondling her vagina...... The offence the subject of count (6) was that on a date between 1 and 31 December 1986 the applicant and the complainant were conducting surveillance on another member of the church, who had recently been expelled. The applicant and the complainant drove and parked outside a house to keep watch. The complainant was covered with a blanket because she was cold. The applicant was said to have placed his hand under the blanket inside her underwear and fondled her vagina. That act was interrupted when the owner of the house appeared." http://www.silentlambs.org/education/Australiaappeal.htm
============================AUSTRIA============
Irene Walter (2) died 11-5-70 in Steyr in Upper Austria after her parents refused blood transfusions for her
============================BRAZIL===============
Renata (14) died apparently in 1982 & had refused blood transfusions
*
===========================CANADA=============
=ALBERTA: EDMONTON in Alberta Province: Leonard Budd (21) died [date not supplied] under care of Dr Morris Friedman after refusing blood transfusions + (ajwrb) GILFORD: gossiping
=BRITISH COLUMBIA: BURNABY: Audrey Lawson (31) died December 1987 at Burnaby Hospital (ajwrb.com) BURNABY: a JW named Jeff Anderson murdered his step-children Juri and Lindsay Kostelniuk and JW ex-wife Kim on August 29, 1985 !
http://www.davidicke.net/mindcontrol/subliminal/jw/rmoore1.html
HALF MOON BAY CONGREGATION: "a woman in the halfmoon bay congregation on the sunshine coast of british columbia ,canada died as a result of bleeding to death after a hysterectomy performed at sechelt b.c. , canada hospital...sorry i dont remember her name...it happened around 2 years ago.." + (jan on Oct 8, 2001 at http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/19219/1.ashx)
=NEW BRUNSWICK: Minto: Alexander Bazowsky (age 5) died July 1989 as youngest of 3 children of Carol & Brian Bazowsky & Grandson of Al and Dorothy Bazowsky + (ajwrb) Quispamsis: Joshua Walker (16) died 10-4-94 + (ajwrb)
=NEWFOUNDLAND: St John's: Adrian Yeatts (15) died 9-13-93 at the Dr. Charles A. Janeway Child Health Centre agreeing with parents refusal of blood transfusion + (ajwrb)
=NOVA SCOTIA: BRIDGEWATER: Mark Anthony Simpson of Centre was arrested June 17, 2003 and charged with kidnapping a (non-JW) 9 year old girl. (Halifax Chronicle Herald, Bridgewater Bulletin, http://silentlambs.org/newsletter/NewsLetterItem.cfm?SendoutID=111 )
=ONTARIO: CARLETON PLACE: "Parents: Joel and Lynn Salles [sic? Pronounced sal-iss] Their 4 year son died because he needed suregy with included a blood transfusion. I have no details of the medical problem itself. Lynn told me that she thought, "A miracle would happen where our son who be saved at the last minute, like some experiences in the magazines. I almost left the truth afterwards. On a personal note, they are a wonderful couple, really nice people. They still are devestated to this day by their loss. They still believe that they made the "right" decision as now their son has everlasting life. I never did try to prove otherwise to them - such as showing them the Bulgarian agreement because it would totally destroy them when they realized what they did." by Skeptic at http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/19219/1.ashx)
YORK: Cathy Grenci (34) died 6-12-95 at York Central Hospital after blood transfusions were refused + (ajwrb) A few years ago after the generation change-two of the 'remnant" killed themselves in Cambridge, Ontario SHELBURNE: The Vicki Boer case regarding Shelburne, Ontario,Congregation Of Jehovah's Witnesses 136 Marie Street; Shelburne ON CA LON1S1; and Vicki Boer finally won the case against the Watchtower Society in 2003 and although getting just $5,000 this established an important precedence for future lawsuits with possibly much larger monetary awards CA
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/8/52694/1.ashx
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/8/49518/1.ashx + (ajwrb)
http://silentlambs.org/newsletter/NewsLetterItem.cfm?SendoutID=102
OTTAWA: Jared Brown (age 10?) died 1989 as youngest of 3 children of Gardner & Linda Brown + (ajwrb) TORONTO: In 2003 Vicki Boer won a judgement against the Watchtower Society regarding sexual abuse she had sustained; see http://silentlambs.org/newsletter/NewsLetterItem.cfm?SendoutID=102 * Sarah Cyrennes (12) died 3-30-80 after parents prevented blood transfusions + (ajwrb), Carol Sulkye (26) died 12-14-81 after refusing blood transfusions + (ajwrb) Lisa Kosack (12) died [date not supplied] at Hospital for Sick Children agreeing with parents in refusing blood transfusion + (ajwrb), Hague Park: assorted misconduct.
=QUEBEC: MONTREAL: "Then in Montreal we had a young "study" who had attended a few times at the K H ( I didnt met him to talk to but saw him there ) took an over dose after he had been out in service - The elders had the nerve to put his "time sheet" up on the board to let us know he had been faithful to Jehovah..." (Other apparent or definite suicides among JWs in
Canada were mentioned at http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/52558/2.ashx
[unauthorized disclosure of confidential personal information deleted]
==========================DENMARK=============
Dina Mainz (24) died October 1996 at Hvidovre hospital after blood transfusions were refused + (ajwrb) Dan Andersen (15) died summer 1993 after refusal of blood transfusion + (ajwrb) A 72-year-old JW ex-poultry dresser accused of killing a baby-killing on March 13, 1978 and repeatedly molestating two daughters and a grandchild (age 20 in 2003) was neither disfellowshipped nor prosecuted due to insufficient evidence and a statue of limitations; the sisters' brother spoke out in anger (article by Morten Noehr Mortensen in the Danish newspaper B.T. dated Dec 11, 2001; http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/8/48449/1.ashx) * The Watchtower Society and a pedophile whom it defended lost their lawsuit against TV2 over the TV program Dags Dato which had aired Nov 24, 2002 http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/8/52770/1.ashx *
========================ELLICE ISLANDS============
Unnamed woman died apparently in 1970 after refusing blood transfusions + (ajwrb)
==========================ENGLAND=============
Also see UNITED KINGDOM
===========================FRANCE==================================
Remi (21) who had leukemia died refusing blood transfusions (Le Monde, April 2001 at a hospital in Germany although first hospitalized in Paris (Le Monde etc; more at pages.globetrotter.net/mleblank/menu1.html) LINAS: The Parisian
newspaper of February 26, 2002 reported the strangulation murder of a mother and son (age 2) and the temporary arrest of the father on suspicion; police were investigating to see if their all being JWs might have a bearing (posted by Chasson)
===========================GERMANY============
Berlin: Unnamed girl (13) died apparently in 1971 after mother refused blood transfusions + (ajwrb) Teda, Ewelina, and Ruth commented on German TV that the Watchtower Society over Jehovah's Witnesses intimidates members to not report pedophilia and accused pehdopiles continue preaching from house to house; also that silentlambs.org has had 60-70 such cases reported to it (Feb 16, 2003 http://silentlambs.org/education/GermanWDRTranscript.cfm) +
==========================GREECE======================
The Watchtower May 15th 1998 page 21, reports: "On Sept 26th, in a case from Greece, nine judges of the European courts of human rights, at Strasbourg, unanimously reaffirmed that Jehovah's witnesses come within the definition of known religions, entitled to enjoy freedom of thought, conscience, and belief, and the right to make known their faith" What we are not told for example, (is) the branch office of the witnesses in Athens, Greece totally abuses this right from its members. Staff from the HQ in Greece set up a video surveillance in a truck, spying on its members, to get evidence as to who, and when, they entertain, and visitors etc, and from this to confront them with the view to forcing them to give explanation of any they did not approve the company of, had association with, be it business, domestic, or social meetings. Caught red handed the Watchtower staff were arrested by the police and "find" for invasion of privacy resulting with much publicity in the newspaper. District Attorney Mr Kontaxis said: "this is very serious. . .to threaten and trample all that we call human rights" This incident and others can be read in former governing body member Ray Franz books "Crises of Conscience" and "In search of Christian freedom" Shortly after this incident Jehovah's witnesses carried an article decrying the intolerance of JWs by the Greek Orthodox Church officials who opposed JWs holding a convention at a sports stadium." > http://www.bigwig.net/knots/nightmares/control.htm
===========================IRELAND=============
child from Clonmel in Tipperary had life saved by emergency transfusion then parents and Watchtower Society threatened lawsuit over the transfusion in/about March 2000 (ajwrb)
============================JAPAN===============
Presiding Judge Takashi Oshima rejected a claim by a 68-year-old woman from Chiba Prefecture that she receive money because doctors gave her a blood transfusion to save her life after saying they would not noting that this "special contract" between the doctors and patient was "invalid" because mit went "against medicine's first goal, which is to treat and save the life of the patient, against the noble value of human life, and against the doctor's obligation to save the life of the patient in the best possible way." (ajwrb)
===========================LATVIA===============
Elena Godlevskaya (17) died September 1996 in Riga+ (ajwrb)
===========================MEXICO==============
Mario Aburto Martinez (called "a devout Jehovah's Witness") assassinated the lead Presidential candidate of Mexico namely Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta in Tijuana 3-23-94 ! (courtesy of Kent Steinhaug and verified by other accounts)
===========================NIGERIA=============
Nigeria's Supreme Court in Benin City in March 2001 said a patient could reject blood transfusions & this protected a JW doctor who treated a JW woman without transfusions until she died 4 days later apparently in or near Lagos (source not ajwrb by friend of it)
=========================NEW ZEALAND==========
AUCKLAND: lated Dec 1993 a judge ruled a S Auckland boy (3) must have a heart operation at Green Lane Hospital to stay alive despite parents' opposition to blood transfusions (ajwrb)
==========================NICARAGUA=============
Managua: on/about 1-20-2000 Hazel Borge (10) was endangered if not killed after car accident smashed legs leading to severe bleeding and parents refused blood transfusion at Velez Hospital (mother: Maria Felix Bermudes) (ajwrb)
===========================NORWAY==================================
woman (83) died after refusing blood transfusion October 1995 + (ajwrb) roger.karlsson@g... of Sweden posted on silentlambs.org's public guestbook June 3, 2001 "I will send you in a couple of days a story from Norway. The story was published in Norwegian newspaper. It´s about a sister who went to the elders and report that a young girl have been telling her that her father (an elder?) have raped her many times. The elders didn´t do anything so she reported it to the police. The JW was arrested the same day. The sister who reproted the
case was disfellowshipped."
=========================PUERTO RICO===========
Ponce: Nelida Gonzalez (55) died refusing blood transfusion November 1992 (ajwrb)
===========================ROMANIA==============
In the 1950s most JWs in the country quit the Watchtower because it betrayed them to Communist police and formed their own still existing True Faith Jehovah's Witnesses (source: their website)
============================RUSSIA=================================
KAZAN & PETERSBURG: (Denied later by the Watchtower Society:) 2 small girls died because of their parents' refusal of blood transfusions & in Moscow a woman in childbirth refused a blood transfusion when having a caesarean section & nearly died www.stetson.edu/~psteeves/relnews/0111d.html In General: efforts have been made to ban the Watchtower Society for destroying families, denying constitutional freedoms such as voting etc as noted in details at: www.jw-russia.org/eng/moscow/ruling01feb23GolovinskiyCourt.htm
===========================SLOVAKIA============================
"The Woman: Spying on everybody is obligatory. Every member must report any wrongdoing which is committed by some other believer. If he refuses to obey he risks disfelowshippment himself. Marko: These things go so far that a husband is to denounce his wife and vice versa. ... September 3, 2002 This TV program was aired recently (3.9.2002) in Slovenia , Europe , on the biggest slovenian TV station, POP tv( www.pop-tv.si ) About 250.000 people saw it.)" (Otto, Marko and an unnamed woman discussed problems among Watchtower Society or JW members including pressures to conform, bleeding deaths etc; > http://silentlambs.org/education/SloveniaTranscript.cfm and see Hungarian language websites at www.izobceni.streznik.org, www.jehovovexprice.tk)
======================SOUTH AFRICA=================
Wyndham Cook (15) died summer 1991 & had agreed with parents in refusing blood transfusions + (ajwrb) Ewan Opperman (19) from S Africa was endangered but survived a liver transplant operation at St James's hospital in Leeds in England after the surgeon used plasma products & blood recycled from his own body (ajwrb)
============================SPAIN=================================
CARTAGENA: Catalina Galián (27) died 1991 after blood transfusions were refused + (ajwrb) GERONA: Unnamed man died 1983 & had refused blood transfusions + (ajwrb) MELILLA: Mrs. M. L. Sierra died Dec 1984 after another JW disconnected her transfusion catheter ! (ajwrb) SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELLA: Elihu Canle (age 2) died 2-7-1990 after blood transfusions were refused + (ajwrb) ZARAGOZA: Judith Riberas (14)died 1994 after blood was refused + Marcos Vallés (13) died 1994 after blood was refused + (ajwrb)
========================UNITED KINGDOM==============
ANFIELD: nepotism, greed, arrogance FALMOUTH in Cornwall (elitism, cliques, lying, coverups) BLETCHLEY in Milton Keynes --- CAMBS: arrogance CARDIFF HILL: Alleged "Paedophiles in cardiff north road congregation" briefly discussed at http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/31782/1.ashx FORT WILLIAM in Scotland: man
presumptuously disfellowshipped when trawler he sold sank claiming lives until case won on appeal FENNY STRATFORD: overlording, later burnt down HEATON in Newcastle friendly LLANDUDNO in Wales: corruption/theft LONDON: Yvonne Leighton (28) died on/about 2-5-1993 refusing blood transfusions during post-birth surgery at Sunderland General Hospital, Tyne & Wear+ (ajwrb) MAINDY in Wales: --- MANCHESTER's Irlam (scandals, wierd happenings) MILTON KEYNES -- NOTTINGHAM: Brent Bond (24) had his life saved after suffering gash with massive bleeding by renouncing anti-blood transfusion about 6-9-2000 + (ajwrb)
OXFORD: UK - OXFORD: in 1994 doctors at John Radcliffe hospital described in the British Medical Journal an unnamed JW man dying after refusing medical treatment by blood transfusion. + (Independent 3-2-02; ajwrb) PETERHEAD: marking St Ives STOCKPORT in greater Manchester: January 2000 Beverly Matthews (33) resident in Bredbury died at Stepping Hill hospital after refusing emergency blood transfusion leaving son Ian & husband then JW spokesman Derek Casey defended the anti-transfusion policy + (ajwrb) WEST LOTHIA: Thomas Maxwell (60) was convicted of exposing himself to a 12 year-old girl multiple times during 1994-96Story filed: 20:59 Monday 14th August 2000 WSM: gossiping Emelie Grootjes (19) 1996 at Poole General Hospital in England + (ajwrb) Susan Teeney (27) died 1993 after refusing blood transfusion + (ajwrb) BRITAIN IN GENERAL: Christopher Burke (47) died January 1989 + (ajwrb) ENGLAND IN GENERAL Gary Ricketts (23) died 3-23-1992 & had refused blood transfusions + (ajwrb) Brian Hunt (49) died 1992 & had refused blood transfusions + (ajwrb) Elvet Harries in 1996 was convicted of pedophilia * Archibald McGarvie on 1-16-98 was sentenced for incestual pedophilia with nieces * (ajwrb)
UK IN GENERAL: Vincent McCann wrote "This present writer has been told by an ex-Jehovah's Witness of various instances where elders have secretly spied on the out of congregational activities of the Witnesses in their flock. For example, one particular group of elders suspected that a Witness man was having an affair with another woman. Rather than simply ask the man, however, they imagined the worst and took it upon themselves to set up spying operations outside the ladies house. This continued for several nights until the Witness man was eventually presented with the 'evidence'. It was then discovered that the young lady whom the man had been going to was actually his sister, who's house he had been decorating!" http://www.spotlightministries.org.uk/jwfears.htm
======================ZAMBIA===================
young female died September 1997 refusing blood transfusion + 6 months old female endangered & possibly killed as parents (Mr/s Cleophas Mulumba) from Democratic Republic of Congo refused blood transfusion in Lusaka U Teaching Hospital on/about early Oct 2000 (ajwrb)
LANDS IN GENERAL THOUGH MOSTLY IN THE USA: Dan Morgan died October 1951 after refusing blood transfusions + (ajwrb) Mary Williams (41) died November 1971 after refusing a blood transfusion at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital + (ajwrb) Samuel Muscariello died in 1949 after refusing blood transfusions + (ajwrb) Keith Lawhon died around 1972 after refusing blood transfusions & liver transplant + (Tatiana at http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/19219/1.ashx) Comfort Majdoub died January 1998 after refusing blood transfusions (ajrwrb) + Pota Zoumboulis died April 1987 after refusing blood transfusions + (ajwrb)
For more news about pedophilia coverups etc by Jehovah's Witness elders and others in the hierarchy including at Brooklyn headquarters see reprints from CBS News, Dateline NBC etc at silentlambs.org, or contact William H. Bowen at (270) 527-5350. silentlambs, inc, PO Box 311, Calvert City, Kentucky 42029 USA. Telephone: 270-527-5350 Fax: 270-527-5351 Also, for further legal information about the JWs and pedophilia etc you may contact Jeff Anderson, 651-227-9990 or the Hotline for Jehovah’s Witness victims of abuse at 1-877-WTABUSE.
=SCIENTOLOGY: "In the early ‘70s, during an audit, the IRS discovered that Hubbard was skimming millions of dollars from the church and diverting the money into his personal Swiss bank accounts. Affairs took a more troubling turn on June 11, 1976, when the FBI discovered two Scientologists with forged IDs inside the U.S. Courthouse’s Bar Association Library in Washington, D.C., after visiting hours. An FBI raid of the church’s offices ensued, revealing an elaborate undercover Scientology operation to obtain government documents on the organization, with the help of members working inside the IRS, the U.S, Coast Guard, and the Drug Enforcement Administration. In 1980, 11 top Scientology officials—including Hubbard’s wife—were imprisoned for infiltrating, burglarizing, and wiretapping more than 100 government and private agencies in an attempt to block investigations of the church." http://www.russbaker.com/George%20Magazine%20-%20Clash%20of%20The%20Titans/Clash%20of%20The%20Titans%20-%20George%20Magazine.htm >
=MORMONS or LDS: "Mormon Spies, Hughes and the CIA, by Jerald & Sandra Tanner, Utah Lighthouse Ministry, SLC., Ut. The book deals with the Mullen Co. (the firm which handles public relations for the Mormon Church) and the Watergate break-in, the BYU spying operations, the prostitution conspiracy and the church, wiretapping and bugging, Mormons and the CIA, Robert Bennett's involvement with Hunt, Hunt's BYU spy, Bennett's cover-up, Mormons and Hughes, the possible existence of the secret council of 50 in the church today, and many other important subjects." http://a2zbookdepot.adelink.net/lds_books_6.html >
