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Los testigos de Jehová deben pagar $ 35 millones a una mujer que dice que la organización nacional de la iglesia ordenó a los miembros del clero de Montana no denunciar su abuso sexual como un niño a manos de un miembro de la congregación, dictaminó un jurado en un veredicto.

Un juez debe revisar la pena y la organización nacional de testigos de Jehová, la Sociedad Watchtower Bible and Tract de Nueva York, planea apelar.

Aún así, los abogados de la mujer de 21 años de edad dicen que el veredicto del miércoles envía un mensaje a la iglesia para informar el abuso infantil a autoridades externas.

"Afortunadamente ese mensaje es lo suficientemente fuerte como para que la organización cambie sus prioridades de manera que comiencen a priorizar la seguridad de los niños para que no se abuse de otros niños en el futuro", dijo el abogado Neil Smith el jueves.

La Oficina de Información Pública en la Sede Mundial de los Testigos de Jehová respondió al veredicto con una declaración sin firma.

"Los testigos de Jehová aborrecen el abuso infantil y se esfuerzan por proteger a los niños de tales actos. La Watchtower está buscando una revisión de apelación", dijo.

El caso de Montana es uno de los muchos que se han presentado en todo el país durante la última década en los que se alega que los testigos de Jehová administraron mal o encubrieron el abuso sexual de menores.

El caso que provocó el fallo del miércoles involucró a dos mujeres, ahora de 32 y 21 años, que alegan que un miembro de su familia abusó sexualmente de ellas y de un tercer miembro de la familia en Thompson Falls en los años 1990 y 2000.

Las mujeres dicen que denunciaron el abuso a los ancianos de la iglesia, quienes manejaron el asunto internamente después de consultar con la organización nacional.

Los ancianos expulsaron al abusador de la congregación en 2004 y luego lo reinstalaron el año siguiente, según la demanda, y el abuso de la niña que ahora tiene 21 años continuó.

La demanda alegaba que las organizaciones locales y nacionales de testigos de Jehová fueron negligentes y violaron una ley de Montana que les obliga a denunciar abusos a autoridades externas.

"Su sede nacional, llamada Watchtower, controlan cuándo y si alguien dentro de su organización informa abuso infantil", dijo Smith. "La Watchtower instruyó a todos los involucrados que no informaran el asunto a las autoridades".

Los abogados de los Testigos de Jehová dijeron en documentos judiciales que la ley de Montana exime a los ancianos de informar "procedimientos eclesiásticos internos sobre el grave pecado de un miembro de una congregación".

La iglesia también sostuvo que la organización nacional no es responsable de las acciones de los ancianos de Thompson Falls, y que ha pasado demasiado tiempo para que las mujeres demanden.

El jurado otorgó a la mujer de 21 años $ 4 millones por sus lesiones, más $ 30 millones en daños punitivos contra Watchtower y $ 1 millón en daños punitivos contra la Congregación Cristiana de los Testigos de Jehová, otra corporación de testigos de Jehová que se comunica con las congregaciones de los Estados Unidos.

El premio monetario debe ser revisado por el juez de primera instancia y podría reducirse. Una ley de Montana limita los premios de daños punitivos al 3 por ciento del valor neto de una compañía o $ 10 millones, lo que sea menor. Una demanda legal a esa ley está pendiente ante la Corte Suprema de Montana.

El jurado desestimó las afirmaciones de que la iglesia debería haber denunciado el abuso de la segunda mujer por parte del mismo miembro de la congregación. Los miembros del jurado concluyeron que los ancianos de la iglesia no recibieron el aviso del abuso de la mujer de 32 años de edad en 1998, como ella dijo, y por lo tanto no tenían el deber de informar a las autoridades.

El tercer miembro de la familia que alegó abuso no fue demandante en la demanda.

The Associated Press generalmente no nombra a personas que dicen ser víctimas de un delito sexual.

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