In my state, anyone that has the responsibility of overseeing children in any capacity, including ministers, are required by law to report abuse, even if they just suspect it.
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by Pubsinger 12 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse
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sunny23
Its hard to mandate that a sex offender be announced to a congregation during meeting obviously. However upon even one "witness" or victim of abuse (NOT 2), there should be a reporting to the police as well as informing ALL elders and MS in a private meeting that Brother Raper has been accused and should be treated as if he is dangerous around children with respect to assigning him in car groups. In fact making it a policy to only assign him to a car group with an elder or someone informed would be the best.
I agree cappytan that it is the moral obligation to forewarn any parents whos children might come in contact with Brother Raper in service. Actually informing all parents might be necessary to help lower risk of something happening at a get-together or at one of those "lets watch this new WT video just released at my house as a party" type scenario. Or those big camping trips some JW groups have. Theres simply too many scenarios where not informing parents could fall back on a failure of Elders moral obligation. Protecting young sheep should outweigh protecting the reputation of some sick f***. Perhaps give Brother Raper the ultimatum of 1) no attendance at any gatherings outside the Hall whatsoever and limited field service partners to elders only or 2) we announce you as an "accused" or "confirmed" sex offender to all parents we elders see fit in order to protect the cong to the best of our abilities .
Yea that sounds good, JWs love ultimatums anyway, should work fine.
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JakeM2012
JW elders can leak every other "confidential" subject matter that is considered within so-called "confidential" meetings among the elders, including a boy that seeks an elders help concerning the MA word and ;the involved elders will continue to bring it up years later if the young man is ever considered a servant or an elder. An elder will report when someone brings up his recommendation, "Well, you know a few years ago he had a problem with the MA word." Another elder, "Could a couple of brothers go and ask him if he has self-control now and has conquered the MA word?"
Why is it so hard for these mentally deficient people? Can they reason, that there are times that they could discreetly let the congregation servant body know, and then pull their shunning crap on the accused. I swear, just as they do with the minor incidences like a teenage boy or girl that walked down the hall at school holding hands with a "worldly" boy or girl? and it is reported to the elders then the teenager. The guilty teenager is then shunned by every family in the congregation for years? But NOOOOOOO, "We can't tell anyone about a pediphile, it's confidential". They are just idiots. As Jesus said, they strain out the gnat and gulp down the camel.
Maybe a lawyer needs to establish that there really does not exist any confidentiality what-so-ever or even pastoral confidentiality. When everything else minor is revealed by gossip within the congregation except the dangerous stuff then doesn't the body hold a responsibility? You either have confidentiality or you don't.