Is anyone on this board familiar with this case? Do you know his status in the congregation at the time of his offense? Elder, MS, pioneer?
If you know, send me a PM and how you know his status without compromising your anonymity.
Thanks.
Blondie
Gregory Blackstock, convicted JW molester, NH
by blondie 7 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse
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MinisterAmos
No clue but did you peep this? Friggin' Judge seems to have a real problem with prosecuting child molestors.
In a 1989 case, the Supreme Court upheld Groff's decision to overturn the sexual assault conviction of a Lowell, Mass., man, because the victim testified that the man "stuck his fingers in my bum." The court found the word "bum" was too ambiguous to prove sexual penetration.
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Pricilla
http://www.nh.gov/judiciary/supreme/opinions/2002/0206/black064.htm
No mention of JW status in court record.
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nelly136
old news item
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050828/REPOSITORY/508280304/1013/NEWS03
To the visitors, they're just family
Micki Blackstock prepared for her first visit with her imprisoned son with the worst in mind. "I thought it would be like in the movies," she said, "where there is glass between you and you can only talk by phone."
Micki was relieved to find it otherwise. "It's more like a cafeteria," she said.
For five years, Micki has traveled from Hollis to Concord each Wednesday to visit 50-year-old Gregg, who is serving a lengthy sentence for multiple sexual assaults against young girls, some of whom he met while attending a Jehovah's Witness church in Hillsborough County. Mother and son greet each other warmly, take opposite sides of a small table and talk.
Not about his offenses, which Gregg and Micki say didn't happen. And in that respect, they are not unlike the families around them. Eavesdrop in the visiting room, and you'll hear conversations about what the relatives are up to, how many fish the boys caught on vacation and how a wife is managing things alone. Soon it will be, "How the kids doing in school?"
To their victims and others, inmates remain forever rapists, murderers and pedophiles. But to their visitors, they never stop being sons, fathers, brothers and friends.
And so Micki tells her son what their friends and family are doing and about the latest repair needed on her old house, which she calls "a real fixer-upper." And he tells her about the science class he's taken or the literature, art and history classes he's finished. They imagine the day they will once again eat breakfast at Parker's Maple Barn in Mason.
Before he was imprisoned, Gregg helped his mother keep up with home repairs. "And I figured that when it got to be a burden, I'd go home again and take care of the house and take care of her," Gregg said.
It will be years before he's any help to his mother again. According to the prison, Gregg's earliest parole date is 2015, although Gregg and Micki predict a pending court case could reduce that by five years.
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nelly136
http://www.nh.gov/judiciary/supreme/opinions/2002/0206/black064.htm
THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
___________________________
Rockingham
No. 2001-076
THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
v.
GREGORY BLACKSTOCK
Argued: March 6, 2002
Opinion Issued: June 24, 2002
The facts underlying the motion are that, as noted above, in September 1999, the defendant admitted to C.B.’s aunt that he had touched C.B., although he claimed it was unintentional. The defendant later confessed "to his . . . elders at the . . . Jehovah’s Witness [sic] church" that he had also acted improperly with the aunt’s two children. C.B.’s aunt knew of the defendant’s confession regarding her children and had discussed the matter with the police. However, she did not tell the police about the defendant’s confession regarding C.B. until September 2000.
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nelly136
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/11/9073/1.ashx old thread on here about it http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:r6RGHKQqRT4J:watchtower.observer.org/apps/pbcs.dll/article%3FAID%3D/20040307/JWANDCHILDREN2/10729005+gregory+blackstock+jehovah&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=6 Gregory Blackstock - another JW Paedophile
NASHUA, N.H. - A man charged with molesting three girls argues that meetings where he discussed the accusations with his Jehovah’s Witness elders were confidential and can’t be used as evidence.
Gregory Blackstock, 45, of Hollis, faces eight counts of rape, punishable by up to 20 years in prison. He is scheduled to be tried in late January.
Before then, however, Judge Bernard Hampsey must determine whether church elders who met with Blackstock to discuss the accusations involving the sisters can be made to testify about their conversations.
By court rules and state law, church ministers can’t be made to disclose confessions.
Hillsborough County Attorney Roger Chadwick argues that Blackstock’s discussions with the elders does not qualify under the confessional privilege, because the elders also discussed Blackstock’s statements with the girls’ mother.
Blackstock and his lawyer, Richard Monteith, argue the meetings were confidential, and to intrude on that privacy violates his constitutional freedom to practice his religion.
"Our procedure is a biblical procedure, and it’s designed to keep the congregation clean and to bring the wrongdoers to repentance. It is the tenet of our beliefs that everything is held in the strictest confidence," said Joseph Fuoco, an elder who has been subpoenaed to testify. Couple celebrate holiday with gift to unknown -
Miss_MG
any relationship to the blackstocks here in Australia?
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