Thanks to the efforts of exJW activist and YouTuber Jimmy Bell, Monica Kincaid, Jon Leger of exJW Analyzer, Jay Henschel, Ruby Quinn, Shelley Dean Braeioux who testified at the Australian Royal Commission as BCG and later went on to earn a batchelor’s degree in law, a petition has been put together and will be mailed […]
A public access reveals that convicted pedophiles may well be a member of Jehovah’s Witnesses. In return, parents in the affected congregations must apparently warn their children and not leave them alone with the local pedophile Of Alberte Linde • Nicklas Calvert Are you Jehovah’s Witness? Or do you have input on the subject? Then […]
Jan. 28, 2025 at 7:32 pm By Shauna Sowersby Seattle Times staff reporter OLYMPIA — When there is suspicion of child abuse or neglect, state law requires certain professions, like teachers and social and health care workers, to report it to authorities. While most states include clergy on the list of mandated reporters, Washington is […]
by Madaleine Rubin, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Jan 20, 2025 A 46-year-old man was found guilty in Butler County common pleas court last week of rape, indecent assault and corruption of minors – the latest verdict in a six-year, ongoing investigation of widespread sexual abuse in Jehovah’s Witness congregations across Pennsylvania. Shaun Sheffer, who was accused of […]
On their official website (JW.Org) the Watchtower organization regularly posts articles and videos stating that it is a requirement of God for persons to be members of an organized religion in order to gain salvation. This channel has addressed this topic before. But in their most recent posting the statement is made that some people […]
Photo: RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King The Jehovah’s Witnesses must pay $48,000 in court costs to the Crown for a string of failed cases brought against the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care. The Christian Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses Australasia sought a judicial review in 2023 in a bid to get out of being […]
The Post April 23, 2024 The Royal Commission of Inquiry into abuse in care was acting within its powers to investigate complaints involving Jehovah’s Witnesses, a court has decided.LAWRENCE SMITH / STUFF Jehovah’s Witnesses have lost an appeal to have abuse claims involving elders ruled “out of scope” of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into […]
TribLive Roger E. Zellars COURTESY OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL Two Western Pennsylvania men are the latest accused of raping or sexually abusing girls stemming from a statewide grand jury investigation of child sexual abuse in the Jehovah’s Witnesses community. Ronald W. Mangone, 69, of Lower Burrell and Roger E. Zellars, 68, of Pittsburgh’s Garfield neighborhood […]
NEW ZEALAND LAW 21 Mar 2024 jemima.huston@rnz.co.nz Photo: RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King The Court of Appeal has reserved its decision in the Jehovah’s Witness Church’s case challenging the Abuse in Care inquiry. In Wellington on Thursday the church appealed a High Court ruling that dismissed its claim to be excluded from the investigation. The public gallery was […]
In 2015 The Australian Royal Commission in case number 29 gave the Watchtower organization recommendations that would enable them to respond more adequately to child sexual abuse allegations and protect children. After two years the commission reconvened in order to ascertain whether their recommendations were followed.