Another JW charged with raping children
by Burger Time 12 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse
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blondie
Young girls' rapist jailed
A Jehovah's Witness, who raped two young girls and sexually assaulted another, has been jailed for ten years.
Patrick Nolan, 61, was told by a judge at Bradford Crown Court: "This was an appalling act of self-gratification."
Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC added: "I have to deal with you for the most serious offence a man can commit, short of homicide. Society would be outraged if I didn't pass upon you a sentence measured in years."
Nolan pleaded guilty to four charges of rape and one of indecent assault, committed on three different girls between 1983 and 1991.
Prosecutor Simon Kealey said that Irishman Nolan committed the offences while he was living in the Skipton area, before returning to Ireland, from where he was extradited late last year.
Mr Kealey said Nolan touched the breasts of his first victim when she was aged 14 or 15. She was upset and shocked but was too frightened to say anything about what had happened.
His second victim was aged ten or 11 when he raped her on three occasions.
His final victim was only nine when he raped her as she cried and told him to stop, to no avail. Nolan made her promise to say nothing about it.
The complainants plucked up the courage to tell police in 2001-2002.
James Keeley, mitigating, said Nolan, of Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland, was an illegitimate child who had been brought up by his grandparents.
Mr Keeley said that while growing up Nolan suffered unwanted sexual advances from a Catholic priest and a neighbour and was regularly beaten by his schoolteachers. He left Ireland in the late 60s and found work on a farm in the Skipton area.
Mr Keeley said his client had no previous convictions, had pleaded guilty at the first practical opportunity and was in poor health.
He added: "He is a Jehovah's Witness by faith and that has provided him with strength throughout the years."
Judge Durham Hall told Nolan he was a drunken, violent man who had committed very grave offences.
He described the rapes of the second girl as callous and said Nolan had forced himself on the nine-year-old, causing her significant terror and pain. "She was crying throughout the incident and begging you to stop."
He imposed a Sexual Offences Prevention Order, preventing direct contact with children.
7:17am Tuesday 8th April 2008
By Steve Wright
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sf
~must have crossed post..thx blondie~[no need to reply]
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brinjen
Mr Keeley said his client had no previous convictions, had pleaded guilty at the first practical opportunity and was in poor health.
He added: "He is a Jehovah's Witness by faith and that has provided him with strength throughout the years."
Oh I'm sure that's lovely for Keely, but what about his victims?
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DoomVoyager
10 years!?!?! Off with his head!
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WTWizard
Is that 10 years total or 10 years per rape? As I remember, rape is significantly more serious than just touching the breasts (and there were two of them). And both involved initiatory force to commit, plus threat of force to make them shut up about it. And only a dinky 10 year sentence for him?
And, I wonder if he even got a judicial reproof. After all, I doubt there were two witnesses to these events, since they were ordered to shut up about it. I sure hope the Watchtower Society gets more embarrassment about this--second only to their intentions to gain ownership of knowledge and property (which I think they need some more embarrassment about).
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Hope4Others
Mr Kealey said Nolan touched the breasts of his first victim when she was aged 14 or 15. She was upset and shocked but was too frightened to say anything about what had happened.
His second victim was aged ten or 11 when he raped her on three occasions.
His final victim was only nine when he raped her as she cried and told him to stop, to no avail. Nolan made her promise to say nothing about it.
The complainants plucked up the courage to tell police in 2001-2002.
It should be 10+ years per victim, think of the life these girls have to deal with now being mentally marred for life. I have been really thinking about this lately and how
young people look up to and trust older jw's thinking that they love and want to protect you, and then the rug is pulled out from under you.
hope4others
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daniel-p
10 years total is ridiculous.
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hotspur
Knowing the UK judiciary, that's probably 10 years total!
The UK prison inmates are notoriously 'hard' on child sex offenders..... don't think they worry about two witnesses - the more the merrier in their view.
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Gadget
Knowing the UK judiciary, that's probably 10 years total!
The UK prison inmates are notoriously 'hard' on child sex offenders..... don't think they worry about two witnesses - the more the merrier in their view.
It sounds like 10 yrs total, which in the UK system will mean he'll probably get released after 5. And inmates are hard on sex offenders, thats why rule 43 keeps them segregated from the ordinary prisoners. You don't get that much of a hard time if all the other inmates around you are in for the same thing......
It would be interesting to find out how many people in prison are actually jw's. In the UK we have a freedom of information act, so anybody writing to the ministry of justice should be able to find out how many prisoners classify themselves as jw's, how many of them come under rule 43, and how the % of rule 43 prisoners that classify themselves as jw's compares with the % of jw's in UK society.