wife of jw pedophile speaks out

candidlynuts

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007430080,00.html

Wife: I stand by Jehovah paedo

By ANTHONY FRANCE
Crime Reporter
September 17, 2007

THE wife of vile Jehovah’s Witness paedo Michael Porter vowed to stand by her man yesterday.

Porter, 38, who abused a baby and 12 other young boys, was released by a soft judge last month.

The Sun tracked him down to his new home, near where he strolled hand in hand with loyal wife Joanne.

The couple mingled with shoppers — including children — in Edgware, North London.

A family friend said: “Joanne says she married Michael for better or worse.

“He is a changed man and she is proud to be seen out and about with him. Her love will save him.”

But a shocked mum who saw Porter out shopping said: “He should be swinging on the end of a rope, not walking the streets as a free man. He’s a disgrace.” Porter is still a Jehovah’s Witness and calls at the homes of local people unaware of his sick past to promote the faith.

Joanne’s loyalty mirrors that of the wife of disgraced actor Chris Langham who was jailed for ten months on Friday for possessing child porn.

A judge showed mercy after reading a moving letter from the star’s wife Chrissie, 54.

On the streets ... Porter strolls past mum and baby (PHOTO at the link above)

Porter — a ministerial servant to Jehovah’s Witness church elders in Clevedon, Somerset — molested boys by putting his hands down their trousers in “playfights”. One victim was interfered with as he slept in bed while another woke to find Porter on top of him.

He abused the boys — aged from 18 months to seven — when he was trusted to act as a babysitter, take kids camping and host sleepovers. Porter — supported in court by Joanne — carried out the attacks over a 14-year period in the 1980s and ’90s.

Judge Tom Crowther caused outrage when he spared him jail for 24 counts of indecent assault and gross indecency after hearing he had undergone therapy.

He gave him a three-year community rehabilitation order at Bristol Crown Court, banned him from working with under-18s and put him on the sex offenders register.

The judge said “personal” issues in Porter’s childhood made his actions “understandable”. However, Porter’s own sister Tina Hughes, 40, branded the judge “rubbish” and disowned her brother.

She said: “He’s an evil monster with no soul. He’s not human. The fact he is flesh and blood is irrelevant to me. To me he is 6ft under. Dead.”

The Attorney General is considering whether to appeal against the sentence.

candidlynuts

in the photo pictured he appears to be carrying a bookbag but i'm not sure.

surely he's not going door to door alone?

stillajwexelder

If he goes to door to door he should always be accompanied by an elder or MS

still_in74

Porter is still a Jehovah’s Witness and calls at the homes of local people unaware of his sick past to promote the faith.

I have to be honest with you, I think the article has it wrong here. There is no way a man (brother) that was charged with crimes like these would be allowed to go out in the community and represent the WTS in "field service" so soon after the incident.

The OM book clearly states that any "representative" of the WTS must be not only be in good standing but their repuation in the community must also be considered. This is in harmony with 1 Tim chapter 3

(1 Timothy 3:1-13) . . .If any man is reaching out for an office of overseer, he is desirous of a fine work. 2The overseer should therefore be irreprehensible, a husband of one wife, moderate in habits, sound in mind, orderly, hospitable, qualified to teach, 3 not a drunken brawler, not a smiter, but reasonable, not belligerent, not a lover of money, 4 a man presiding over his own household in a fine manner, having children in subjection with all seriousness; 5 (if indeed any man does not know how to preside over his own household, how will he take care of God’s congregation?) 6 not a newly converted man, for fear that he might get puffed up [with pride] and fall into the judgment passed upon the Devil. 7Moreover, he should also have a fine testimony from people on the outside, in order that he might not fall into reproach and a snare of the Devil.8 Ministerial servants should likewise be serious, not double-tongued, not giving themselves to a lot of wine, not greedy of dishonest gain, 9 holding the sacred secret of the faith with a clean conscience. 10Also, let these be tested as to fitness first, then let them serve as ministers, as they are free from accusation. 11 Women should likewise be serious, not slanderous, moderate in habits, faithful in all things. 12 Let ministerial servants be husbands of one wife, presiding in a fine manner over children and their own households. 13For the men who minister in a fine manner are acquiring for themselves a fine standing and great freeness of speech in the faith in connection with Christ Jesus.

I do not believe that this man is still serving as an MS and I do not believe he would even be allowed to "preach" publicly.

Gopher

The OM book clearly states that any "representative" of the WTS must be not only be in good standing but their repuation in the community must also be considered.

This is not relevant in this case, because members of local congregations (even elders and ministerial servants) are not considered "representatives" of the WTS. Only travelling overseers and those higher up in the WTS structure can be considered representatives of the WTS.

This was made very clear to us at service meetings I attended (I think in the 80s or 90s), where we were instructed to call ourselves 'students of the Bible' or "Jehovah's Witnesses" but certainly not 'Watchtower representatives' when we went in the public ministry.

And further... as clearly Documented in the Dateline NBC program from 2002 about JW pedophiles, such pedophiles certainly do go door-to-door after their trials are over or they are released. Video taken from hidden NBC cameras showed this was clearly the case.

Gopher

As to what Joanne Porter said:

A family friend said: “Joanne says she married Michael for better or worse. He is a changed man and she is proud to be seen out and about with him. Her love will save him.”

Has Joanne no concern at all for Michael's victims? It certainly doesn't show in these remarks. How can she live with such a man, knowing what he did? Just a question.

She married him "for better or worse" -- but her husband's actions go well beyond the traditional meaning of 'worse', into the realm of inhumanity. And besides, JW's don't say 'for better or worse' as part of their wedding vows (assuming they were JW when married). They say 'as long as we live together on earth according to God's marital arrangement'. But Michael went outside the marital arrangement when doing such sick things (or did he do all this before they were married?)

Gordy

Joanne says she married Michael for better or worse.

My wife and I separated 11 years ago on the advice of Elders that I was a "spiritual danger" to the family. Because I had depression.

Maybe if I had a been a pedophile instead, we would still be together

Gregor

This is just another revealing example of how shallow the moral character of JW's in good standing can be.

I recently posted a news story about a JW, whom I had known for years, that had been arrested and convicted for a huge fraud scheme involving investments in a currency trading venture. Police found his personal journal in which he describes himself as a "financial serial killer" and "just another scumbag con artist bilking old people out of their retirement money."

Ironically, it appears he screwed his own family and JW friends for the bulk of it. It was a min. $50,000 investment

Gretchen956

I just love these types of articles in the newspapers. What a good "witness." I suppose the wife thinks she's some type of martyr. But then again these types of predaters are normally very persuasive con-artists. They have the congregation and wives thinking they have changed and are remorseful. And because they (JWs) are isolated and distrustful of the medical and legal community they aren't aware that the pedophile's hard-wired to be that way and no amount of remorse will make them anything other than more cunning and sly about sneaking in their abuse on unwitting children in future.

What a paradise for abuse the WTS has prepared.

Sherry

badboy

IS SHE PROUD THAT HE IS A CHILD MOLESTER?

wife of jw pedophile speaks out

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