by Mephis 75 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse
"The safety of the victim and other children is paramount. In cases where the parent or guardian of a minor fails to take necessary measures to protect the child, a congregation elder can inform the authorities for the protection of the child or other children."
Their message is - "please listen to the weasel words we're using now to try and get out of this and judge us on those, not what we actually do".
Church’s response to child sexual abuse fell short of best practice, says Angus Stewart QC in his damning submission, published on Tuesday
Just to emphasize the magnitude of these numbers that Level The Playing Field shared on the Australia situation -
1. 108 of the 1,006 child molesters were elders or ministerial servants
2. 28 alleged child molesters were APPOINTED as elders or ministerial servants AFTER having been the subject of an allegation of child sexual abuse
3. Only 401 of the alleged child molesters were disfellowshipped of the 1,006
4. 230 of those 401 child molesters were reinstated back into the congregations
5. Of those disfellowshipped 78 were disfellowshipped for child sexual abuse on more than one occasion.
These figures are astonishing. Criminal really . So actually 835 of the 1,006 JW child molesters got back into the congregation- reinstated. That's 83 % of all the child molesters allowed back into congregations to assault more innocent children.
Adding to the words of Oubliette : Let's review it's a criminal organization
I would not want to be a JW preaching door-to-door in Australia today...
