Former Church Elder Guilty of Sex Offense

by purplesofa 15 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse

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  purplesofa

  wow bobbi

  we could do a whole thread on that email!!!!!

  purps
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  llbh

  Hi Purplesofa

  This is awful. It is all to familiar when are they going to learn? Do they want to?

  Hi Bobbi your jw friend has a lot to deal with. I love her take on the internet, knowladge is power, that is why the society hate it.

  Thanks for the post

  llbh
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  flipper

  BOBBI- Mr. Flipper here . I know how you feel about your friend not reasoning on this molestation crisis. My 20 year old pioneer daughter, when I showed her the ap news release of the 16 molestation settlements by the society said to me, " Well, Dad, it's good that Jehovah is bringing this out so he can clean out his organization any who are doing this . " And I said, " Well, that is just the point, they aren't, they are keeping many molesters still in who need to be dealt with. " Then she said, " Well I trust that the governing body will do the right thing and Jehovah will make sure these ones are punished and found out eventually. " Then I shook my head and said, " So in the meantime kids just suffer through it ? " She said, " Jehovah will take care of it . " I thought I was talking with a damn parrot. Crazy mind control cult ! Jeez ! Peace out, Mr. Flipper
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  cultswatter

  Those elders are very horny buggers
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  Honesty

  There is nowhere else to go, and baby, it's cold outside!

  The Watchtower brainwashing goes all the way through them.
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  Cindi_67

  Jehovah's Witness elder gets three years for sexual exploitation

  Betty Ann Adam, CanWest News Service

  Published: Friday, November 09, 2007

  SASKATOON -- A former Jehovah's Witness church elder has been sentenced to three years in prison for the sexual exploitation of a troubled teenage girl with whom he carried on a four-year relationship.

  "Our courts must send a clear message to every person in authority over a child that sexual contact with them will not be tolerated and will result in lengthy periods of imprisonment," Justice Marty Popescul said Friday at the Saskatoon Court of Queen's Bench.

  Wendell Willick, 47, was counselling the girl at the behest of her parents - who were friends of Willick through their church - during the period of the abuse, which began in 1996, when the girl was 14.

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  The court heard during a sentencing hearing that Willick first had sexual intercourse with the girl when she was visiting his home on a weekend pass from a hospital psychiatric ward.

  The victim, whose name is protected by a publication ban, was in the midst of a troubled adolescence. She had once run away from home and had repeatedly cut herself.

  Willick pleaded guilty in September to a charge of sexual exploitation.

  The judge did not accept defence lawyer Daryl Labach's submission that the girl's apparent consent lessened the severity of the crime.

  "As a society we have absolutely rejected the notion that children can properly consent to participation in sexual activity with adults or those who are in a position of trust or authority to them," Popescul said.

  "An offence such as this does not require the use of threats or violence because of the power imbalance involved."

  Willick's wife and adult children sat silently in the front row or the courtroom. The victim, who lives out of province, was not present. Her mother and stepfather sat in a back row. They declined to comment on the sentence.

  The girl's trust and spiritual beliefs were shattered, she said in a victim impact statement that was read during the sentencing hearing.

  "It made me feel like a person of no value with no voice. . . . Parts of myself are missing," she wrote.

  Willick voluntarily gave up his role as an elder in the church several years ago, in part because of the allegations, and left the church entirely in 2004, the defence lawyer has said. He also has said Willick was not acting in his capacity as a church elder when the offences occurred.

  Willick will be listed on the national sex offender registry for 10 years after he is released and must provide a DNA sample for the national data bank.

  I don't understand. MY QUESTION IS: WAS HE AN ELDER or WASN'T HE? IF HE EVER WAS AN ELDER WAS HE BEFORE THIS HAPPEN, OR AFTER IT HAPPENED AND THEN RESIGNED?