Harry Holt - JW elder sexually assaulted 8 girls over 4 decades

by OrphanCrow 24 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse

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  Finkelstein

  A very shocking and disturbing story.

  Churches and their adjoined clergy try to make a pressing illusion that within their church is an environment of spiritual righteousness from within itself, some men and woman exploit that as shield of purity and wholesomeness around themselves as a pretentious guise of their own character and personality..
  
  This issue of pedophilia within churches and the apparent cover up of these situations has drawn a lot of public awareness in recent years and has done so for a pertinent reason, adherent blind faith or not.
  
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  Truthexplorer

  This issue will continue to haunt Watchtower over and over. The GB need to review their policy on safeguarding children and vulnerable adults otherwise confidence in the organisation will continue to wane!
  
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  krismalone

  The WT are masters of double speach.

  They state both verbally and in print that the victims have the right to go to the police. However, the elders are not allowed to accompany the victims to go see the police. The victims are reminded by the elders that they will bring reproach upon the Watchtower Organization by going to the police.

  Even if the pedophile is disfellowshipped, what good does it do since the Congregation is NOT warned about the pedophile in their midst. The victims are warned not to talk to others about the molestation and thus warn them.

  Private letters from the Governing Body to the elders clearly state not to cooperate with the authorities by giving them any information about a murderer or a pedophile as this is "ecclesiastical privilege". They are told to call the WT legal department if a search warrant is served.

  If a child molester, murderer or scam artist wants to find a place where he can operate and not worry about being turned in to the police....the Watchtower cult is a perfect place for them.
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  Truthexplorer

  Looks like this guy now made the uk database

  http://theukdatabase.com/2016/02/12/harry-holt-nelson-scotland/

  It absolutely horrifies me to think that elders do not warn parents to watch the whereabouts of their child at all times at the kingdom hall when they know that a child abuser with such a historical record may be sitting feet away from them.

  The elders don't even have to go as far as naming an individual if they want to keep confidentiality, but at least give the heads up to watch their child at all times, as well as association, as there is an individual to be wary off. At least parents will be a bit more alert who their children associate with.

  Now knowing watchtowers inadequate policy and procedures in cases where child abuse has been alleged, as well as their lack of reporting matters to the police and allowing such individuals to continue their fellowship freely at the hall, my wife and I are now extremely careful when it comes to our child's associations at the KH,
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  flipper

  The fact that this scumbag child molester abused 8 children over 40 years should not escape us. Most child molesters DO abuse multiple children - some up to 30 or more and even more than that over a lifetime. So you multiply the number of pedophiles and child molesters running around unchecked in these JW congregations with the multiple child victims- I'm quite sure the worldwide number of JW child abuse victims is in the thousands if not hundreds of thousands by now through the years. Disgusting.

  WT Society IS a criminal organization that should be brought up on charges of crimes against humanity and the fact that hundreds if not thousands of child abuse lawsuits worldwide against WT leaders is happening as we speak is evidence of the WT leaders criminality and immoral and unethical values. Many of those immoral, unethical values seep down into the other 8 million JW's worldwide. This is more dangerous than many people want to admit. JW's are under the influence of the " Stockholm Syndrome " whereby they sympathize with their WT leader captors and become complicit in support of policies that favor child molesters - not victims of child abuse