Already on its first day of hearing, this case makes headlines on the other side of the globe. Swedish regional newspaper carries this coverage:
News item in Sweden on Child abuse Royal commission Australia
by InquiryMan 11 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse
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InquiryMan
Thank you Splash -
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umbertoecho
Splash, Thankyou for all that. I'm really glad to see how many papers are picking this up and have not had the time. Please keep doing it. I go to sort out about a trip to Sydney tomorrow. -
Splash
BBC News have just added an online article about it.
A second article in the UK Guardian about how notes were destroyed.
Same second story in the Daily Mail.
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Tornintwo
Thanks splash, was hoping the UK press would pick up on it -
InquiryMan
Major Swedish newspapers have also picked up the news, as well as Finnish news media and Danish newspapers:
http://ekstrabladet.dk/112/jehovas-vidner-i-australien-skjuler-sexovergreb-mod-boern/5662257
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StarTrekAngel
Heard it too this morning. NPR in South Texas -
Oubliette
Jehovah's Witnesses destroyed notes about child sex abuse, inquiry told
Church elder tells royal commission that 1,006 allegations of abuse since 1950 were dealt with internally rather than reported them to police