Did You Personally Know of Sex Offenders In The Congregation?

by minimus 59 Replies latest jw friends

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  cruzanheart

  Yes. I was in the Preston Park Plano, Texas congregation back in 2000 or thereabouts. A boy of 14 sexually assaulted a 4-year-old girl -- both families went to my congregation. The boy was caught and sent away to juvenile detention for a year. I knew nothing of this (I wasn't part of the "in" crowd). All I knew was he came back to the congregation a year later, looking like he'd been at a Marine boot camp. I thought they'd just moved away and moved back and didn't think much of it. Everyone welcomed that family and made a big fuss over him. One day a gossipy "sister" told me not to let my children (who were 6 and 4 at the time) go to the bathroom by themselves at the KH and told me the whole story. Evidently when this kid got out of jail, he and his parents wanted to come back and attend the same congregation as his little victim and her parents. The girl's parents protested, the elders said the perv gets to come back (even though there were three other congregations that met in that KH that he could have attended instead), and they gave a local needs talk on "forgiveness." A lot of people objected and the elders threatened them with disfellowshipping if they talked about it.

  This was the same body of elders that drove my dad to suicide in 2003. Nice bunch of guys, huh?

  Nina
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  purplesofa

  yes

  I do
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  J-ex-W

  ((((((((((((((( Nina )))))))))))))))))))
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  MeneMene

  About three weeks ago I made a remark to my mother about the over 27,000 child molesting cases at WTS headquarters. She told me that my father knew a "pioneer brother" many decades ago that molested two boys. My father did nothing and did not report it. The "pioneer brother" ended up going to Bethel.
  
  She also said that it is just a test on JWs that know about it to see if they stand by the organization!! I pretty much lost it and screamed at her saying, you mean it's okay to molest children because it is a test from Jehovah ??!!?? I was so mad I just left her house.
  
  At the time I hadn't heard about the 16 settled cases. I did print out the news paper article later and left it on her dining room table along with copies of 2 articles about selling off property in NYC. She hasn't mentioned finding them.
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  outoftheorg?

  Yes I do. My sisters elder husband.

  One of my nieces told my daughter that he had molested her. My daughter then tells me that he molested her also when she was about 13. Then my older daughter tells me that he tried to talk her into letting him teach her how to kiss.

  As the word spread, about 6 different sisters and young family girls that were not jw's made different claims against him. As is custom in the jw world, those who were not jw's were ignored.

  I went to my sisters house and confronted him. Of course he denied it. I wanted to beat him and slapped him and shoved him while my sister cried and pleaded to me not to hit him. With my background in law enforcement I knew that I would end up in prison if I did so and that I might even kill him. I took it to the local police and the statute of limitation had expired. So I went to the elders and as usual nothing was done.

  I asked the elders several times about the lack of any action on their part and finally told them they needed the shit kicked out of them. The elders wanted to get me into a judicial discussion and I just ignored them. I was already drifting away from the jw's before all this happened, so they were pleased to ' DF ' me using the charge of " fits of rage". I thanked them for this.

  The end result was a divorce and a broken family. Family members that knew he was a molester, would talk to him and not to me, because I was df 'd and he was still an elder.

  One odd thing is that those family members and friends that would speak to him and not to me are now very ill or passed away and living a very poor life with very little income and no plan for their old age and generally very unhappy.

  Where my life has become much better in all aspects , over the last 16 years since all of this took place. These last 16 years are better than any of the previous years of my life.

  By the way the state of Idaho has about doubled the time allowed by the statute of limitations on this issue of sexual abuse.

  I have been told that about 12 years after this started, his daughter went to the elders and he was df'd finally. I have been told that she told the elders that there were too many complaints against her father and that there must be something to it.

  I wonder. Could it be that she also was molested and finally pushed the button??

  Now he is dead and rotting in his grave, where he belongs.

  Outoftheorg
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  JH

  No, when I joined, I was sure that they were all "pure".

  I also thought we were all close brothers and sisters, that would never let anyone down in their personal tribulation.

  I was wrong.
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  dedpoet

  Yes I do

  A guy in the kh I went to raped his four daughters, but the elders covered it
  up, and df'd his now-ex wife and only baptised daughter a few weeks after
  they went to the police and he was arrested.

  He's in jail now, but being "repentant", he's still a jw. His ex wife and daughter
  are still df'd, not that they want to go back anyway.
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  DannyHaszard

  The Bridgewater Massachusetts Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses had a MS father raping both his young daughters.The elders knew about it for 30 years and covered it up.

  This case is a worst case classic.It had an affect on me when I first came aware of it in 1970 as I was an ignorant 13 year old boy and one of the daughters was a 14 year old who had a romance crush on me and I was embarrased (NOT to cast any guilt on her) on how she was very oversexed with me.

  I know of other criminal pedophile cases over the years that were covered up but this one was the most devestating to me and I still have PTSD over it.
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  Big Tex

  Yep. White Rock congregation in Dallas. The victim used to post here. The offender was an elder's son and the entire matter was completely hushed up. Nothing was ever said publically and the offender was not reported to the police nor was he "disciplined" in any way. As far as I know today, the offender is still a Witness and last I heard he's an elder himself.

  Chris
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  carla

  btt