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  Jail those who turn a blind eye to child abuse, says Cameron

  by JHK in

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  teachers, social workers who work with children and councillors could face up to five years in prison if they turn a blind eye to child abuse under proposals to be set out on tuesday by david cameron.

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  http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/03/david-cameron-child-abuse-ignore-jail.

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  Cameron believes his plan to extend the offence of wilful neglect beyond the health service and adult social care ­sector to a far wider group of public service workers will send out a message that child abuse can no longer be regarded as a second order issue by public service workers. He hopes the reforms will herald a culture change and come close to meaning that public service workers would lose criminal immunity if they failed to report or act on clear evidence of abuse.

  That's cool. Now the next step is to question why family members who know of the abuse aren't held to the same standard.

  Anybody - including mothers and grandmothers - who knows a child is being abused and fails to report it, should be charged right along with the abuser.

  Far too often, when I hear and read stories from survivors who were raped by their fathers, they speak of the mother knowing the abuse was going on. In those cases, the mothers should also be charged.

  
  

  
  
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  Will JW's become a pedophile attraction ?

  by cookiemaster in

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  2. beliefs

  with all this publicity of how they protect pedophiles and how they instruct members to not report them, could it be possible that jw's will become an attraction for pedos ?

  will we see a chance in doctrine?

  will gibberish buddies admit there's a problem in the borg?

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  A person could hope that the publicity would deter pedos from joining the JWs. However, pedos are predatory in nature, and they also think that they are smart enough not to get caught.

  I do think that there will be some pedophiles who will target the JWs after they hear that children are so poorly protected within the organization.

  Of course, a predatory pedophile will latch onto any opportunity to play out their sickness, regardless of the consequences. It would be myopic to think that deterring pedophiles would result from media exposure because the exposure could very well attract the sickos who don't believe they will be caught.
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  Are the Governing Body the ultimate 'predators' on planet earth?

  by Esse quam videri in

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  2. beliefs

  if you answer 'yah', why do you so answer ?

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  The corporate structure is psychopathic in nature.

  That doesn't mean that the GB are predators/psychopaths. They are just at the top of a predatory machine.

  And, no, they are not the "ultimate" predators.

  But, the r&f JWs are the ultimate victims. They victimize themselves and call it 'religion' to justify why they are so weak that they need a corporation to tell them what to do.
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  Is there a Child Molester on the Governing Body?

  by TTATTelder in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  great report by abc on the abuses in jw-dot-org land.... i hope it opens a "floodgate" of future news reports and exposes.

  if you ask yourself, "why hasn't the watchtower leadership changed their policy on the 2 witness rule?

  if one or more persons on the gb has victims out there that can't come forward because of the 2 witness rule, then that would explain the permanent road block to policy change that is obviously in place.

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  you could never have judicial committees after that at all.

  Yay!

  The WTS use judicial committees as a kangaroo court. They think they are above the law by practicing their own form of twisted judicial proceedings based upon their own twisted way of making 'law'.

  In their judicial hearings, they do not follow standard legal procedures.

  The WTS view their form of 'law' as being legal. It isn't.
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  has anyone seen vidio on youtube about why they changed cover of songbook search youtube jw.org embarrassment

  by poopie in

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  any thoughts.

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  My friend was intrigued by the songbook cover. He wanted to know why the man had his tongue sticking out:

  
  

  ...and why the shadow was left that way on the little girl's dress. "It makes it look like she has a nipple!"

  
  
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  Please help me figure out my dreams

  by Socrateswannabe in

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  2. friends

  hi everyone, this may be the stupidest post ever.

  i am stumped for an answer and would love to hear your opinions, though.

  every week or two for the last couple of years, i have a dream--or at least that's what i'm calling it--that consists of me waking up or thinking that i've waked up, and seeing the ceiling of my darkened bedroom filled with algebraic equations.

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  Do our brains have the ability to imprint things that we've seen but have no understanding of, and involuntarily recall them in this way?

  Yes.
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  has anyone seen vidio on youtube about why they changed cover of songbook search youtube jw.org embarrassment

  by poopie in

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  any thoughts.

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  I almost hate to re-open this thread because of the upset it seems to cause with some people.

  But, I did say I was going to ask a friend what he thought about the apparent subliminal images in the Watchtower publications. He was over for a visit last night and I showed him a couple of the images.

  I showed him the image taken from the old Paradise book - the one with Jesus on the stake. This one:

  

  I asked him for a response about the image before explaining anything about it - keep in mind that this fellow is strictly non-religious - and he did not 'get' that it was a picture of 'Jesus'. His first comment was that the guy in the middle looked 'Aryan'. And homosexual.

  I then pointed out this guy here:

  
  

  ...and turned him upside down:

  
  

  ..and my friend said "His dick is sticking out!!"

  And we had a good laugh. I asked him if he thought, based upon the way the lines had been made, etc., if the artist had done it unintentionally. Emphatically, and chuckling the whole time, he said, "No. That was intentional."

  My friend taught Studio Art at the university for many years - he does not buy into "it was an accident".

  I then showed him the songbook. Again - good laughs. And again - not accidental.

  So, for what it is worth, an 'expert' - an artist himself and a teacher of art making - both sees the images and says that he does not see how another artist could make those images and not know what they were doing.

  Now, I realize that most people don't accept that an artist can be an 'expert' of anything other than throwing some paint at a canvas....but....not all of us artists suffer from mental difficulties. Some of us are actually quite intelligent.

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  ABC's report on child abuse

  by Joyzabel in

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  2. child-abuse

  nice job!

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  morpheus: The floodgates have not opened by any rational measurment or logical standard. There are over a million pubs in the usa. 20 cases is .002 percent of total publishers. I would agree that even one case is too many but its also sensationalized to call 20 a floodgate. if "watchtower" thought there were only 20 potential cases lurking they would laugh themselves to sleep at night.

  Maybe the reporters are taking into consideration the statistics that reveal that less than 10 percent of child abuse cases get reported. If you combine that figure with the restrictive policies on reporting that the WTS practices, it is not unreasonable to think that the percentage figure of un-reporting is much lower within the JW community and would result in a lower figure than 10 percent.

  http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1863650,00.html

  Those 20 cases that are mentioned are only the pimple on the top of a huge, pus leaking boil that sits ready to be popped.

  Child abuse/rape is systemic within the JW community.
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  Anybody know what happened in this lawsuit, Frank Otuo suing the WT of Britain and an elder for defamation?

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this lawsuit was discussed on jwn five months ago: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/284881/brave-ex-elder-sues-over-defamation-over-fraud-claims?size=20&page=2 .

  anybody know what the present disposition is in this case?.

  the following link is to the actual newspaper article: .

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  Barbara, it looks like this case is to be presented for judgement on Monday, March 16, 2015.

  The listing does not mention the actual date, but it appears in a list of other cases that are to be heard on that date.

  https://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/court-lists/list-cause-rcj
  

  THE ROYAL COURTS OF JUSTICE
  SITTING AT SALISBURY CROWN COURT
  COURT 1
  Before HIS HONOUR JUDGE PARKES QC
  (sitting as a Judge of the High Court)
  Not before 2 o'clock
  UNROBED
  FOR JUDGMENT
  QB/2014/0571 Otuo v Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of Britain
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  ABCNews Nightline: Segment on JW absuse cases here......

  by WingCommander in

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  2. friends

  here is the segment on the conti abuse case in california and jehovah's witness's response as reported on by the abcnews nightline broadcast which was shown early this morning.

  it really displays some absolutely shocking behavior from not only her abuser and his (supportive) wife, but also the jw attorneys and elders via video.

  i am just blown away by the audacity displayed by these monsters.. we can now understand why governing body member stephen lett slipped in his comments a couple of weeks ago about "untrue reports of child abuse" in one of his talks which can viewed on the cult's website.

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  Thank you for posting this clip, WingCommander.

  Kendrick's wife was something else. Wow. It astounds me when women come down on the side of the criminal. Solidly on the side of the abuser. Damn - it was her 7 year old grandchild that Kendrick abused!

  What a grandma she makes! Omg. I felt like throwing up when she was performing. No wonder that poor child was victimized - the grandmother took sides with the man who raped her grandchild.

  Her response to that, "He paid for that crime!" Holy crap - how much does a crime like that cost the abuser? What about her very own grandchild having to pay for Kendrick's crime for the rest of her life? How does one jail term balance out that? The child has a life sentence - nothing can wipe that out. Nothing.

  Women - mothers and grandmothers - who stand on the side of child abusers and rapists are truly fucked in the head.