JWs in Ghana disown 5-year-old son for receiving blood transfusion

brizzzy

http://www.citifmonline.com/site/news/news/view/5368/1

So sad. How can you even hold a 5-year-old accountable for ANYTHING, anyways?

jehovahsheep

it appears nowadays only unstable ones are coming in the troof.they dont how to make decisions based on what christ would do.

I am glad the WTBS is getting this kind of publicity. It demonstrates what it does to people!!. We know most JWs would not "disown" their child in this circumstance. However, still, what a turbulence is created in the lives of JWs.

cantleave

So sad for the little boy. what a sick cult this is.

blondie

Jehovah couple disown son for receiving blood

Monday, 03 May 2010 11:12 Source: Daily Guide

A Jehovah Witness man, Kwabena Afum and his wife, Margret Afum aka Abena Oduma, have had a brush with the law after creating an unnecessary chaotic scene at New Edubiase Government Hospital in a bid to prevent medical officers from giving blood to their son.

Kwabena Afum was arrested last week Tuesday and granted a police enquiry bail the next day for causing panic and chaos by allegedly mobilizing some members of his church to foment trouble at the hospital.

He has since disowned five-year-old Japheth Asamoah, who is currently in the custody of the Social Welfare Department in the district, even after his release.
According to Dr. Manye Mensah, Medical Superintendent Officer at the hospital, Japheth was brought to the hospital on April 25, 2010 in an anaemic weak condition.

He said upon examination, he discovered the young boy had lost lots of blood which needed urgent replacement and therefore decided to stable his condition with a medication and oxygen that did not work.

He told Daily Guide that whilst the patient’s condition appeared stable because of the heamorrhage, he informed the couple about the need for a blood transfusion to replace the lost blood, which the couple resisted, citing their religious belief.

Bent on saving the life of the little boy, the Medical Superintendent indicated that as he and his team began the process of transfusion, Kwabena Afum and some members of Jehovah Witnesses besieged the theatre room in a bid to prevent them from carrying out their professional duties.

The police, upon hearing the story, rushed to the place to restore law and order and arrested the boy’s father in the process.

He has since disowned the poor boy for having received blood, as lawyers from the church intervened and secured his bail.

ASP Ebenezer Benson, New Edubiase District Police Commander, confirmed the arrest as well as the incident to Daily Guide and added that the farmer had been granted bail awaiting prosecution.

Jehovah Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with non-Trinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity.

The religion reports worldwide membership of over 7 million adherents involved in evangelism.

They are directed by a governing body of elders which exercise authority on all doctrinal matters. Witnesses base their beliefs on the Bible and prefer their own translation, the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures.

Jehovah’s Witnesses are best known for their door-to-door preaching, distribution of literature such as The Watchtower and Awake! and for their refusal of military service and blood transfusion even in life-threatening situations.

The group emerged from the Bible Students movement, founded in the late 19th Century by Charles Taze Russell, with the formation of Zion’s Watch Tower Tract Society.

Following a schism in the movement, the branch that maintained control of the society underwent significant organizational changes bringing its authority structure and methods of evangelism under centralized control.

Since its inception, the Watch Tower Society has taught that the present world order is in its last days and will soon be destroyed by Armageddon.

http://www.ghanamma.com/latest-news/18913-jehovah-couple-disown-son-for-receiving-blood.html

lepermessiah

"Love Never Fails!"

He has since disowned the poor boy for having received blood, as lawyers from the church intervened and secured his bail.

Isnt that throwing the baby out with the bath water - literally?????

looloo

weirdos !

Lady Liberty

OMG!!!!! How UNBELIEVABLE!!! Why in the heck would you disown your child??? It's like divorsing your mate because you had it out with your boss at work!! What a bunch of FRUITLOOPS!! That poor baby will be SO MUCH better off without them in the long run!!

Just UNREAL!!

L.L.

BluesBrother

Sorry, but I do not buy that part of the story. I am sure that this local radio station has got something wrong. It would be against all the teaching of the WTS for the parents to "disown" the lad because he was forcibly transfused. It seems that things were heated at the hospital and angry words may have been uttered that were misunderstood ?

We may like believe ill of the WTS (and there are plenty of genuine things to complain about) but this does not ring true. Think about it, if you have ever had personal knowledge of a news story , do the media always get the facts straight?

If it has happened then this family are "one off " weirdos that could be disfellowshipped for abandoning their son.....

Mind you, LOL at Lepermessiah !