Girl who was abused by her father from a age of 11 sought assistance from Jehovah’s Witnesses only to be molested by one of their elders

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30 minutes ago, Ann O'Maly said:

allegations

Anyone know the current state of play on these?

[Anna]

On 5/10/2017 at 11:17 AM, Ann O'Maly said:

Then you may have missed his strongly-worded comments against the Catholic hierarchy and his persistent efforts to call its leadership to account.

I apologize, you are clearly right. I did miss it. Tut-tut. Evidently, he doesn't seem biased towards the Witnesses, but I sill have comments on how he has twisted some things. I cannot speak for the Catholics of course, but I do know JWs pretty well. I will have to put my argument together one day (so much to do and so little time).

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On 5/10/2017 at 3:51 PM, AllenSmith said:

That depends, how far you wish to express your ignorance. As for the Watchtower claims, they categorized 1006 incidents, people like you made them up to be of sexual child abuse, just like the biased media made people think no one was held accountable in those cases.

Thought that the Watchtower provided the names as a response to a request for all the cases of sexual child abuse on file. (The cases cover quite a range that might not always be defined as criminal child sexual abuse, but it was the Watchtower intending to provide cases that fell under this definition.) Also, it wasn't 1006 incidents, but 1,006 files about the abusers. Therefore the number of incidents was higher than the 1,006 cases of abusers.

I also understand that several of the cases have already been turned over to the authorities based on time that has past, and evidence of criminality. A few of these have already hit local Australian papers. I've been sent 4 of them, and told about others, but I am not interested in posting them. Enough of that happens by others. (In one of the cases, where the person is much older now, the authorities decided not to prosecute, stating that his disfellowshipping by his congregation had already produced a severe punishment. I guess they consider disfellowshipping to be a bit like a prison sentence.)

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On 5/9/2017 at 5:07 PM, Ann O'Maly said:

there is a campaign to have the UK JWs' child abuse allegation procedures officially investigated due to failings that have come to light in high profile cases over the past few years.

Any efforts made to deal with this despicable crime are welcome. However, it seems the amount of energy, resource, and "expertise" focused on villifying people who actually do not engage in this depravity and who, regardless of allegation, actually detest the practice, is disproportionate.

I mean, I know it is difficult to get a clear picture of the problem, but stats reports of this crime incidence such as  62,939 in US 2012; 8,892 in UK 2014 indicate a problem out of control if the "tip of iceberg" theory is applied..What happens in other countries?

Who really has any real "expertise", let alone the "will" sufficient to get to grips with this problem?

[Srecko Sostar]

JW Australia sexual abuse list - public 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tQL5RTf_i6K_Ia-_bo51JL00fdw396DCsV-EqE8xrOc/edit#gid=0

Total numbers of alleged victims 1730. But that is not final number. Some perpetrators have 10+ victims and for some, numbers are not known (unclear).