Articles focusing on the child abuse scandal among Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Jehovah’s Witnesses Child Abuse Documentary
Pedophiles are despicable. Anyone who preys on a trusting child is evil. Those who choose to close their eyes to evil are equally reprehensible. The Watchtower claims to abhor pedophilia, but as official policy it protects abusers from exposure and punishment. The rationale has always been that Jehovah's Witnesses had to keep such wickedness secret in order to protect Jehovah from reproach. What [...]
JW rapist gets sentenced to 5 years
A man who pleaded guilty to raping two underage girls he met through the Jehovah's Witness congregation they all belonged to has been sentenced to five years in prison — a "relief" to his victims. Elihu Rodriguez, 32, of Yakima, Washington, was given five years, the maximum sentence prosecutors had asked for, after Rodriguez pleaded guilty to three felony counts of child rape in the third [...]
The Watchtower’s dirty little secrets
The leadership of the Jehovah’s Witnesses has boldly defied court orders to turn over the names and whereabouts of alleged child sexual abusers across the United States. Since 2014, courts have slapped the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ parent corporation – the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York – with multimillion-dollar judgments and sanctions for violating orders to hand over secret documents. The documents could serve as [...]
Watchtower Changes Its Pedophile Policy
KINGDOM BULLETIN #12 Over the course of the past 15 years the Watchtower has come under increasing scrutiny regarding child sexual abuse among Jehovah’s Witnesses. There have been numerous high profile lawsuits brought against elders and the Watchtower corporation, multi-million dollar judgments, capped in 2015 with the Royal Australian Commission holding a public inquiry and the subsequent bombshell revelation that of over 1,000 known cases of [...]
Jehovah Will Call to Account the Complacent Ones
Wednesday, July 27 You guide me with your advice.—Ps. 73:24. Whenever we need guidance, we can “take notice of” Jehovah by consulting his Word to find out his view of matters and by seeking to apply Bible principles. Sometimes, though, a trialsome situation lingers. You may have a grievous personality conflict with someone in the congregation. For instance, you may be hurt by a remark that you [...]
Watchtower’s PR Dept Brushes Over Child Abuse by Jehovah’s Witnesses
The Watchtower has produced a brief melodramatic video of a child abuse victim telling her story. It is a slickly produced public relations movie. It even has some drone footage shot over the beach as happy families frolic. At first glance one might assume that the Society is trying to help the many victims of sexual abuse who have suffered at the hands of Jehovah's Witnesses. [...]
Abuse allegations among Jehovah’s Witnesses in Newfoundland
Allegations of abuse involving two members of the Jehovah's Witness religious movement in Newfoundland have emerged, though details of the charges are protected by a court-ordered publication ban. CBC News has learned that a former volunteer church elder and his son are facing charges. The former elder is charged with sexual assault and sexual exploitation relating to allegations dating from 2009 to 2012 in central Newfoundland. According to [...]
NBC News – Jehovah’s Witnesses Child Abuse
The leadership of Jehovah's Witnesses have been getting a lot of press coverage lately, for all the wrong reasons. This is not really "news" to readers of this site, but it is noteworthy that the Watchtower's secret doings are being exposed more and more. And what did Jesus say? - "There is nothing covered over that will not become uncovered, and secret that will not become [...]
Consequences for the Watchtower’s Child Abuse Policy
QUESTION: Dear Robert, how is it that that sex offenders out in the world have to go on a sex registry that lets parents know of child molesters living in their neighborhood, that secular law prohibits sex offenders from living within range of a school or park... and yet a sex offender could be sitting next to you and your young child in a Watchtower meeting, [...]