Look at how long it to the abused victims of the Catholic Church to be heard in the media. Many victims started to speak out in the 1970's and no one would listen to them. So many victims had to fight for their lives just to be heard many of the victims died of suicide over it. I know of one such victim. He left a wife and three young children his youngest was only four years old at the time of his death.
No one wants to believe this is truly happening especially in a trusted religion like the Catholics or JW's. I mean JW's come on, they are just sweet harmless little old ladies that go door to door trying to get you to buy their magazines they would never have pedophiles in their religion! NEVER!!! I have been told this to my face. The GB has really tried to make the JW's appear wholesome and sweet. Having pedophiles in their ranks goes totally against logic to most people and they do not even want to look at it. Just like so many people could not believe that a Catholic Priest would molest a child, after all a Priest was next to God even in the minds of many people who were not Catholic's.
Now to get to the Penn State look at how long the investigation of Penn State took for it to finally hit the media. Parents were going to the police about Jerry Sandusky way back in the 1990's and nothing was being done.
Even now Penn State is in the new and then you hear nothing for days. Like there has been nothing since Friday about it and there might not be for weeks then it will come up again hopefully. But there is plenty about the Kardashian's and Lindsay Lohan every day. It is just so extremely maddening. But whose fault is it. People want fluff they do not want to hear about a ten year old being raped by a 60 something man, nor do they want to know that the JW guy standing on their door step Saturday morning could have just molested the child that is standing next to him.
No one wants to believe that children are being rapped. It is so much easier to turn a blind eye to it even in their own families. There is a elder in my hall who has a niece and this girls grandparents are also in the truth the grandfather is an elder also. A fellow elder started to fondle the little girl at the assemblies when she was just eight years old in the swimming pool. Yet the family the GRANDDPARENTS stood up for the pedophile in so many ways even blaming their granddaughter because she sat on the pedophiles lap when she was 16 years old saying she brought it on herself by doing that and they are ticked off at the granddaughter because she left the truth.
It truly blows your mind. How do I know this elder fondled the child and the family seems to be in the dark about it because I went to the courthouse and read the court records so I would know the TRUTH! But did the family do that? Not to my knowledge. Now they shun their niece and granddaughter. The aunt of the child told me she always felt the girl would grow up to marry a fine upstanding brother and she just cannot understand why the girl who is now in her early 20's has turned her back on her faith. The parents of the child did stick witht their daughter after years of also truing a blind eye to it. Now the family is devided and the aunt told me she thinks her brother has sued the WT over it but she is not sure nor does she want to know. How can anyone be so blind? I honestly do not know.
So what can all of us do, we can talk and talk and talk. Tell everyone we know. The guy who fixes our furnace, the women who checks us out at the grocery store if we get to know her, I have been in lines and someone will spot a tabloid on the Penn State scandal and say something about how horrible it is. That is a perfect time to bring it up. I have. I have said well you know it is in the Catholic Church right? They are like duh I then say did you know it is also in the Jehovah's Witnesses. I tell them what has happened to me and what I have been through because of it. People really want to know. I tell people I work with and for, everyone seems interested. Especially the Catholic's after all they have been drug through. I say for right now the best we can do is to tell about it, talk about it. After all if the voices of those who were being abuse by the Catholic Priests back in the 1970's had lost hope of ever being heard no one today would know of all the abuse that we do about the Priests and what they did to the children. It takes one voice to help other voices get strong.
Just speak out as Albert Einstein said "The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil but because of those who look on and do nothing."
LITS