I know this is gonna earn me a bad rep.. but I think it needs to be brought up. I am just playing the Devils Advocate here. Why should there be a remedy of punitive damages for JW's that bring up the spectre of child abuse when the law doesn't REQUIRE that ministers go to the law to report? How can lawsuits be brought up in those jurisdictions where the law doesn't REQUIRE that? They can't be found LEGALLY guilty... I think *all* of us need to write to our congressman/senators to pass a law that it is REQUIRED that all suspicions of chiuld abuse be brought up in front of LEGALLY by ministers/clergy.. any person that is acting in the capacitiy of a counseling person. When there is NO LAW supportng this.. it needs to be made.
Country Girl