By Rose French
ASSOCIATED PRESS
3:14 p.m. May 10, 2007
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A victims' rights group released documents Thursday that showed the Jehovah's Witnesses recently settled civil suits with 16 people who claimed they were sexually abused by church elders or that church officials failed to act on abuse allegations.
The group, called silentlambs, held a news conference in Nashville to demand that the denomination change its policy for responding to sex abuse reports.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20070510-1514-jehovahswitnesses-sexabuse.html
These are people who have fought all the way to the Supreme Court in multiple cases to establish their rights.
Why, this time, are they settling without going to court? Could it be the approximately 27,000 cases of reported sexual abuse in their internal files that would have to be made public? Hmmm?
http://www.silentlambs.org/newsletter/NewsLetterItem.cfm?SendoutID=527
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