Excellent news article re Candace Conti's abuse, not for the sensitive or tender-hearted

by yesidid 42 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse

  • AndersonsInfo
    AndersonsInfo

    I reported that yesterday Candace had a press conference at the attorney's office. Correction: She had five telephone conference calls with important media.

    If you would like to hear an interview with Candace and her attorney, they were on KGO in San Francisco at 5 PM Pacific time yesterday.

    I've heard that AP has picked up the story but haven't seen the proof. Please let us know if you have seen any articles through AP.

    When I saw that USA carried the story, I knew that the ball is now rolling.

  • blondie
    blondie

    SNAP has cases where lay people of the Catholic Church have been charged and tried and money awarded.

    www.snapnetwork.org

  • dontplaceliterature
    dontplaceliterature

    @Barbara

    It looks like it would have been on their afternoon news. http://www.kgoam810.com/Article.asp?id=2476761

    They keep an hourly archive for 7 days, but it is currently unavailable.

    Do you have other access to that interview?

  • JWdaughter
    JWdaughter

    In the armageddon picture, anyone wonder why totally horrible irreemable selfish people would do something like-pick up a weaker person who needed help?

  • Disillusioned Lost-Lamb
    Disillusioned Lost-Lamb

    This just makes me sick.

    The only thing the WTBT$ protects is itself and the only thing it abhors is it's members.

    They may be able to pull the wool over R&F eyes, but do they think everyone is stupid?

  • elderelite
    elderelite

    Seriously.... What a jackass to say, no doubt with a strait face and serious voice, that to protect children elders call church lawyers!!!!!!!! Asshole!!!!!!!!!!!! Call church lawyers to protect children??????? Does he think that makes sense to ANYONE outside the cult????? Fu**kin idiot

  • AnnOMaly
    AnnOMaly

    Please let us know if you have seen any articles through AP.

    I'm betting I'm late in the day with this and people have seen it already, but I'll post it here anyway:

    Calif jury awards $28M in Jehovah's sex abuse case

    (AP) - 10 hours ago

    OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - A Northern California jury has awarded $28 million in damages to a woman who said the Jehovah's Witnesses allowed an adult member of a Fremont church to molest her when she was a child in the mid-1990s.

    Alameda County jurors awarded $7 million in compensatory damages on Wednesday and another $21 million in punitive damages on Thursday to Candace Conti, her attorney, Rick Simons said.

    "This is the largest jury verdict for a single victim in a religious child abuse case in the country," Simons told The Associated Press.

    In her lawsuit, Conti, now 26, said from 1995-1996, when she was 9 and 10 years old and a member of the North Fremont Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, she was repeatedly molested by a fellow congregant, Jonathan Kendrick.

    The Associated Press does not normally name victims of child sexual abuse but Conti has identified herself publicly to encourage other victims of sexual abuse to come forward, Simons said.

    "Nothing can bring back my childhood," Conti told the Oakland Tribune. "But through this (verdict) and through, hopefully, a change in their policy, we can make something good come out of it."

    Conti also claimed in her suit that the religion's national leaders formed a policy in 1989 that instructed the religion's elders to keep child sex abuse accusations secret. Congregation elders followed that policy when Kendrick was convicted in 1994 of misdemeanor child molestation in Alameda County, according to Simons.

    Kendrick was never criminally charged in the case involving Conti, but besides the 1994 conviction, he was later convicted in 2004 of lewd or lascivious acts with a child, records show.

    Kendrick, 58, now lives in Oakley, Calif., according to California's sex offender registry. A message left with a person answering the phone at his home was not immediately returned.

    Kendrick was ordered to pay 60 percent of the judgment, but Simons said there would be no attempt to collect any money from Kendrick, in part, because he would not be able to pay the judgment. The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York - the organization overseeing the Jehovah's Witnesses -would be responsible for 40 percent, Simons said.

    Jim McCabe, an attorney for the congregation, said he planned to appeal the jury's decision.

    "The Jehovah's Witnesses hate child abuse and believe it's a plague on humanity," McCabe told the Tribune. "Jonathan Kendrick was not a leader or a pastor, he was just a rank-and-file member. This is a tragic case where a member of a religious group has brought liability on the group for actions he alone may have taken."

    Copyright © 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

  • AnnOMaly
    AnnOMaly

    The Washington Post carries the same article.

  • AnnOMaly
    AnnOMaly

    CBS news. (All AP, mind.)

  • Cacky
    Cacky

    OMG on that picture Rebel posted. Is that from the Paradise Lost book. I've never read it, but I had heard only good things aobut it from those who grew up with it when I was in. Those people being destroyed look like really evil people, too, a waitress just trying to get by, and even a cat! Now if that isn't to put fear in a child's heart, I dont' know what is. I know they had some pretty bad stuff that my kids grew up with, too (the 80's) and I'm ashamed I didn't follow my gut and do some research about a religion that thinks it's ok to expose kids to stuff like that. And the org says to not watch R rated movies, one reason, because of the violence!!!

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