ALERT: BE AWARE WHO IS KNOCKING On YOUR DOORS: JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES HEADQUARTERS BOLDY DEFIES COURT ORDERS IN ORDER TO PROTECT CHILD MOLESTERS | |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 71604208 United States 09/17/2017 01:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: ALERT: BE AWARE WHO IS KNOCKING On YOUR DOORS: JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES HEADQUARTERS BOLDY DEFIES COURT ORDERS IN ORDER TO PROTECT CHILD MOLESTERS Snip with 50% rule. Menu Sign in News Events Music Movies Places Food Beer Search Judge orders Jehovah’s Witnesses to release molestation files Eighteen years of horror in Linda Vista By Dorian Hargrove, Aug. 30, 2017 CITY LIGHTS Complaints of molestations to leaders of Jehovah’s Kingdom Hall in Linda Vista accomplished nothing, according to court documents. Complaints of molestations to leaders of Jehovah’s Kingdom Hall in Linda Vista accomplished nothing, according to court documents. Image by Matthew Suárez The mission of Jehovah’s Witnesses is to spread belief in the Bible in hopes of rescuing folks before the world ends. Jehovah’s Witnesses’ attorneys seem to have another mission: do anything to keep internal documents revealing the names of alleged child molesters, and the congregations they attended, from seeing the light of day. “I can’t explain what their logic is or their legal strategy,” says attorney Irwin Zalkin. “I can’t explain what their logic is or their legal strategy,” says attorney Irwin Zalkin. Image by Matthew Suárez The second directive is unfolding in two San Diego courtrooms. Attorneys for José Lopez and Osbaldo Padron — both alleged victims of molestation by an elder from the Linda Vista congregation named Gonzalo Campos — say Jehovah’s Witnesses’ governing body, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, refuses to turn over documents. This is despite the fact that two San Diego County Superior Court judges have imposed millions of dollars in sanctions for similar conduct. In a June 17, 2017, email, Lopez’s attorney Devin Storey accuses the Watchtower of withholding documents that his client needs to “establish Watchtower’s practice of protecting molesters from prosecution.” The struggle for documents is not isolated to San Diego courtrooms but is playing out in several countries. Watchtower’s policies of requiring more than one eyewitness to the abuse before launching an investigation; of forcing the abused, often young children, to confront their abuser; and of prohibiting members from contacting law enforcement with complaints of sexual abuse have created what one former member and outspoken critic of the Watchtower Tract Society, William Bowen, calls a “pedophile’s paradise.” Last year, a Royal Commission in Australia found that Jehovah’s Witnesses had hidden more than a thousand reports of child abuse from that country’s law enforcement. In the United States, during the past five years, the Watchtower has paid out numerous settlements to people who claimed they’d suffered child abuse at the hands of church elders. To date, seven San Diego residents have sued the Watchtower Tract Society regarding sexual abuse of minors. |
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User ID: 73274634 Canada 09/20/2017 09:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: ALERT: BE AWARE WHO IS KNOCKING On YOUR DOORS: JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES HEADQUARTERS BOLDY DEFIES COURT ORDERS IN ORDER TO PROTECT CHILD MOLESTERS Actual JW being confronted about this. :Actl Rspns II: "There's nothing you can do." Don't believe me? I'll find the video. Let the facts fall wherever, whenever, and however they may. INTP - The Logician. 'Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.' - Albert Einstein. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 71604208 United States 09/20/2017 09:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: ALERT: BE AWARE WHO IS KNOCKING On YOUR DOORS: JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES HEADQUARTERS BOLDY DEFIES COURT ORDERS IN ORDER TO PROTECT CHILD MOLESTERS Actual JW being confronted about this. Quoting: XJDUB :Actl Rspns II: "There's nothing you can do." Don't believe me? I'll find the video. I believe you. I'm in a desperate custody battle right now trying to get my son. His mother is a JW and took him and havnt seen him in two months. I have had to hire and expert consulting firm that specializes in The cult. We are supenaa the elders and have all the documents from Whatchtower to show the courts how dangerous this sick cult is. |