I went to Brooklyn Hts. today to pick my son up from college at the New York Institute of Technology, which is right in the heart of Bethel. He brought home a news paper with the headlines entitled:
CHILD-MOLESTATION PROBLEMS NOW HIT HEIGHTS-BASED JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES. I tried to see if I could find the article on line, but was not successful so I will post some of the things mentioned in the article;
It took up the front page and another full page.
"For almost a century the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, or Jehovah's Witnesses, have called Brooklyn Heights their world headquarters. Today, the Watchtower governing body rules from a lofty perch overlooking New York Harbor and Wall Street, overseeing more than a million square feet of spacein Brooklyn Heights, Fulton Ferry Historic District, and DUMBO. The Heights, is, in effect, thier Vatican City. But a recent controversy over how the governing body has handled child molestation and abuse cases might have caused a rift in the church membership at large, much the same way the Catholic Church has faced it." (Story Page 2)
It goes on to talk about the same things mentioned in other news articles about Bill Bowen, Barbara Anderson, and us, the Pandelo's. The story is quite long and I can't mention it all but one thing that caught my eye was that it mentioned the Catholic Church twice, as having the same problems. This must be driving Headquarters crazy, since they have spent the century judging the Catholic Church as being identified by it's fruitage of pedophile priests, false religion. Take the rafter out of your own eye Watchtower The story also mentions "Bill Bowen has heard from thousands of victims in the past year. The allegations involve both rank and file members of the church and, like the scandal engulfing the Roman Catholic Church, leaders of the faith."
Has anyone seen this article or posted it somewhere?
Barb