Jehovah's Witnesses and child sexual abuse coverup?

Question

3X I have posted a question about Jehovahs Witnesses and the Watchtower Society covering up alligations of rampant child sexual abuse.
3X my question has come back deleted. No known conunity violation. Just a fer Jehovah's Witnesses trying to silence this lamb.

Does this mirror what the Catholic church has done to cover alligations toward some priests?

Would anyone else like to speak up and bring those accountable out?

Answer 1

I'm currently dealing with a situation with the father of my children and abuse, and he's a baptised JW. He's instructed our children to lie to social services and threatens them with violence if they don't obey him and lie for him. We divorced 7 years ago, and the problems just get worse. If you want to talk more, go to my profile and email me.

Answer 2

Hello, I just bought a book *The Secret of Family Happiness*. There is a chapter 5 Train Your Child From Infancy. Now reading this chapter that this book was published by Watchtower Bible and Tract Society; I cannot even think or understand why a parent would want to abuse their child like that. It reads "Since experience shows that children who know little about sex are especially vulnerable to child molesters, a major preventative step is to educate the child, even when they are still young etc.... This chapter 5 tells the parents how important it is to raise your child in knowing Jehovah. If a Jehovah's Witnesses parent would go against this teaching then I will come to the conclusion that they were not faithful from the start and is way to crazy to go against the Supreme God once they KNOW the truth and the consequences. I am so happy to have bought 5 books that I can read and learn from now. Thank you to the person that gave it to the library.

Answer 3

I used to work as a paralegal for a law firm that specialized in personal injury and childhood sexual abuse by Catholic priests and other laity, and they also represent people who have been victimized by non-Catholics. The bottom line in those cases is that the church knew the priests were abusing kids, and instead of calling the authorities (which say they do now, by the way), they sent the pedophile priests to "treatment centers" and then after they were pronounced "cured," they would be sent to another church, with no warning to the new community, whereupon the priest was put in charge of the baseball team and the altar boys or something. You would have to prove that they knew the propensities to abuse or the past history of abusing, and you would have to prove they acted recklessly in allowing kids (or forcing kids) to be around an abuser. I would recommend calling one of the lawyers who specialize in these cases, they will usually take your case without payment up front -- they only get paid out of your settlement or your award if you win. There are a lot of lawyers out there who can help you (google "sex abuse lawyer" or IM me for more info).

Answer 4

Jehovah's Witnesses are disgusted and repulsed by abuse, and are relieved when secular law enforcement officials successfully investigate, prosecute, and punish any criminal who engages in these terrible crimes.

Jehovah's Witnesses fully understand that their role as a religion is in providing comfort to the victim and her family, sharing relevant bible warnings with the congregation and specific potential victims, extolling Christian peaceableness and righteousness, and eventually perhaps in counseling a repentant sinner.

Government workers such as police and prosecutors are generally empowered to pursue criminal matters. Jehovah's Witnesses always work in obedience to secular law and deference to the personal decisions of victims (and their families, where practical). Jehovah's Witness ministers do not investigate criminal matters, leaving such matters to law enforcement authorities.

An unrepentant baptized Jehovah's Witness who is found guilty of a secular crime is likely to be disfellowshipped (or "excommunicated", although Witnesses do not use this latter term). However, a sin against God's supreme authority is clearly a different matter from a sin against secular superior authorities. The standards for criminal conviction and forced religious disassociation will never be identical.


This so-called "question" is almost certainly not sincere, but rather is intended as a slanderous assault on Jehovah's Witnesses. Interestingly, such "hatred" should be expected by true Christians in this time of the end, and it actually helps identify Jehovah's Witnesses as Christ's true disciples:

(John 15:19) If you were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because you are no part of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on this account the world hates you.

(2 Timothy 4:3-5) For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching, but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories. You, though, keep your senses in all things, suffer evil, do the work of an evangelizer, fully accomplish your ministry.

Learn more:
http://jw-media.org/vnr/2122827332/717263.htm
http://jw-media.org/vnr/2122827332/713173.htm
http://jw-media.org/vnr/2122827332/716353.htm
http://jw-media.org/region/global/english/backgrounders/e_molestation.htm
http://jw-media.org/region/americas/usa/english/releases/educational/usa_e990402a.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/19970101/
http://watchtower.org/e/19850122/
http://watchtower.org/e/19951101a/

Answer 5

Yahoo looks for certain words that aren't allowed. And seems you have them all. I have never heard about those cases. Funny I only see Catholic on the news.