. . .ta daaaaaa. . .
she just found out yesterday. There were no judicial meetings, no facing of accusers, no witnesses, did I mention no judicial meetings? In fact she hasn't attended in 18 months+, hasn't talked to a single elder in at least that long AND 3 months ago she moved about 100 miles from her last cong territory.
How she learned of the announcement: One of her sons, 22, an active jw in a different cong, called her and asked, 'how could you mom!?', then took her out to dinner. An old friend from still another cong called and asked why she didn't tell her she was having spiritual problems? My sis said, 'Well of course I was having spiritual problems silly, I was a jw!' Click!
At least they put their own rules into practice; her rotten ex husb (in 'good' standing) told everyone she had an affair to explain their divorce, apparently that was good enough for the BOE.
And she couldn't be happier.