Governing Body being accused of covering it up!
Please read! Breaking News....
by Newly Enlightened 36 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse
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skeeter1
"The motion alleged that the Jehovah Witness Church prevented the victims from coming forward.
“The actions of the church, their banishment of (Lawrence) on one or more occasion and the directives of the governing body toward the victims and their family members regarding these crimes were actions of “concealment” and further actions preventing the victims from reporting the crimes to law enforcement,” the motion alleges.
According to the motion, the State of Oklahoma is asking the court to overrule the defendants motion to dismiss and order the matter to proceed to preliminary hearing.
Lawrence was released from jail Nov. 24 after posting a $50,000 bond. As a condition of his bond, he is not to have contact with the alleged victims in the case.
If convicted, he faces up to life in prison.
No one answered several calls to the Jehovah Witness Church and Lawrence could not be reached for comment."******************
WOW!
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Crazyguy
That would be awesome if true, we can only hope.
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rebel8
It's interesting that the perp is saying the leadership knew. That's a twist.
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Finkelstein
Just another instance of the WTS. heads trying to hide its dirty laundry from the publics eye.
Mustn't bring reproach onto god's earthly organization.
The WTS, attempt to keep problems such as this internal is costing the WTS.
millions in court costs and penalties and probably there will be more into the future
unless it changes its way.
Standing in the way of the laws of the land is unlawful and shows their own inept moral corruption and irresponsibility.
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Londo111
marked
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ABibleStudent
One can only hope that more JWs will read these types of stories and wonder why more has not been done or could be done to protect children. Waiting on Jehovah (i.e., the GB) doesn't work!!
Peace be with you and everyone, who you love,
Robert
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frankiespeakin
One of these days we are going to see the Governing Body behind bars I tell ya. Remember back in the day when all the WT Corporation's top CEOs got interned because of the espionage act? Maybe we are in for a repeat.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/us-congress-passes-espionage-act
The Espionage Act was reinforced by the Sedition Act of the following year, which imposed similarly harsh penalties on anyone found guilty of making false statements that interfered with the prosecution of the war; insulting or abusing the U.S. government, the flag, the Constitution or the military; agitating against the production of necessary war materials; or advocating, teaching or defending any of these acts. Both pieces of legislation were aimed at socialists, pacifists and other anti-war activists during World War I and were used to punishing effect in the years immediately following the war, during a period characterized by the fear of communist influence and communist infiltration into American society that became known as the first Red Scare (a second would occur later, during the 1940s and1950s, associated largely with Senator Joseph McCarthy). Palmer–a former pacifist whose views on civil rights radically changed once he assumed the attorney general's office during the Red Scare–and his right-hand man, J. Edgar Hoover, liberally employed the Espionage and Sedition Acts to persecute left-wing political figures.
One of the most famous activists arrested during this period, labor leader Eugene V. Debs, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a speech he made in 1918 in Canton, Ohio, criticizing the Espionage Act. Debs appealed the decision, and the case eventually reached the U.S. Supreme Court, where the court upheld his conviction. Though Debs' sentence was commuted in 1921 when the Sedition Act was repealed by Congress, major portions of the Espionage Act remain part of United States law to the present day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jehovah's_Witnesses
Rutherford introduced a vast advertising campaign to expose the "unrighteousness" of religions and their alliances with "beastly" governments, expanding on claims in The Finished Mystery that patriotism was akin to murder. [89] [90] The campaign provoked anger among the clergy and governments in North America and Europe, where Bible Students began to be arrested, mobbed and tarred and feathered . [70] [91] On February 12, 1918 The Finished Mystery was banned by the Canadian government for what a Winnipeg newspaper described as "seditious and antiwar statements". [92] On February 24 in Los Angeles Rutherford gave the first of his talk series "Millions Now Living May Never Die" (the title of the talk was changed five weeks later to "Millions Now Living Will Never Die") [93] [94] in which he attacked the clergy , describing them as "the most reprehensible men on earth for the great war that is now afflicting mankind". [92] Three days later the Army Intelligence Bureau seized the Society's Los Angeles offices and on March 4 the US government ordered the removal of seven pages of The Finished Mystery if distribution was to continue. [95] In early May 1918 US Attorney General Thomas Watt Gregory condemned the book as dangerous propaganda [96] and days later warrants were issued for the arrest of Rutherford and seven other Watch Tower directors and officers on charges of sedition under the Espionage Act amid claims they were conspiring to cause disloyalty and encouraging the refusal of military duty. On June 21 seven of them, including Rutherford, were sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. They were released on bail in March 1919 after an appeals court ruled they had been wrongly convicted and in May 1920 the government announced all charges had been dropped. [97]
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Found Sheep
awsome if true crazyguy? I hope not!!! If true and caught awsome is another story :)
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jamiebowers
I posted this thread on my Facebook page. Thanks for the heads up!