Connecticut Law Tribune: Latest Sex Abuse Suits Target J.Ws (page 2)

Listener

And still no apology from the Governing Body.

'It's strange that God would allow his chosen earthly organization to make a policy like this, isn't it? I mean, it's giving them a bad name, it's eating up donations that could have been used to preach the good news.... Just strange, really.'

joe134cd

Marked

berrygerry

According to the lawsuits, the abuse began in 1988, shortly after Afanador migrated from another Connecticut congregation to the East Spanish Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses New Haven after a mother in the previous congregation claimed he molested her children. Afanador was reportedly sanctioned by the other congregation but not expelled, which enabled him to move on to East Spanish.

Should be an interesting case.

Hopefully, they don't settle.

AnnOMaly

"What's it going to take for them to [turn from the two-witness rule]?

If $28 MILLION doesn't get them to re-think their rules.............?

As Rick Simons said, they're going to need more than one lesson. In their case it looks like lesson after lesson after lesson after lesson after lesson after lesson after lesson ...

Vidiot

I'm wondering just how long it will take before the majority of rank-and-filers in denial get thumped on the head with this enough to finally acknowledge the problem.

AndDontCallMeShirley

Listener: And still no apology from the Governing Body.

I wouldn't hold my breath on this one. I'm still waiting for an apology for 1914...

Vidiot: I'm wondering just how long it will take before the majority of rank-and-filers in denial get thumped on the head with this enough to finally acknowledge the problem.

Well, the figure of a thousand years factors big in JW Land...

Besides, $28 million is only aprox. $4 per publisher, so no biggie. It's less than the annual fee for buying insurance and cars for the CO's and DO's, so actually paying out on pedophilia losses is a bargain.

Connecticut Law Tribune: Latest Sex Abuse Suits Target J.Ws