Sure, happy to be of service. It is certain that Marc Dutroux was a monstrous sexual predator. Although this article might suggest a connection between Dutroux and the Watchtower Society, it strikes me as odd that no other internet news source in Europe or the British Isles (that I could find) mentions that Dutroux was a JW.
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The case Dutroux and the witnesses Jehovas
The numbers speak an unambiguous language. While there was in Belgium of 1996 yet 26654 witnesses Jehovas, it 1997 were already 326 fewer. 1998 sackte the number around further 321 off and 1999 even 612 witnesses Jehovas left the religion that they had designated once as that truth". The reasons for that are certain manifold, but one of them is confessed each, that newspaper reads. It attained sad fame under the stroke word Dutroux and stands for a children desecrater-scandal of quite frightening measurement.
Membership in Belgium
Year Membership
94...........26328
95...........26853
96...........26654
97...........26328
98...........26007
99...........25395
Also in conversations with several Belgian Aussteigern again and again the name Dutroux fells. There should have been 40 cases of paedophilia under witnesses Jehovas. That reported at least the Belgian media and the Wachtturm-company (WTG) let distribute most hurriedly a press release, in which emphasized became that it concerns at the same time without exception excluded. Parallel in addition a corresponding communication went at the meetings of numerous European countries.
The case described in lexpress Raymond Meys is typical for the procedure of the WTG. Typically for an organization, with which obviously glossing over goes before problem solution. And the characteristic appearance before the protection of innocent children. Also in the numerous other felling of child misuse under witnesses Jehovas, who have been confessed the culprits could often for years its inclination nachgehen, without that the intellectual leaders of the meeting undertook somewhat on the other hand. And without that the children were protected against them.
The reports of women, that are grown up as witnesses Jehovas and were misused in earliest childhood by an oldest or the characteristic father, draw a similar picture. The culprits are partial yet today active in the meeting while the sacrifices have to fight its life long with the psychic sequences.
After a clarification organization of the network of former witnesses Jehovas at the 11.01.2000 in Kaufbeuren, in which also the subject of child misuse was addressed under witnesses Jehovas, it came to several calls, in which also by such spread reported became.
That the problem of also the Wachtturm-leadership is confessed, shows write to given will be already a confidential all oldest, in the exact reference to advance like in felling of child misuse. Also here open beard itself the true motivation of the WTG. To the question whether a Pdophiler that his regrets did can take in earlier or later again a leading roll in the meeting, is named it among other things: at the same time it plays confessed become is a role, how the false step".
It cannot be proved to be sure that paedophilia is under witnesses Jehovas further commonly than elsewhere. Communication behavior and power structures within the sect give declared gives however reason for the acceptance, that it behind that another entirely considerable dark figure to become to felling. And that not only in Belgium.