Scotitish News-Church 'harbouring fiends'

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The Scottish News of the World

Church 'harbouring fiends'

JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES STORM

By Ken Adams

SCOTS Jehovahs Witnesses are harbouring dozens of sex beasts within their ranks, the News of the World can reveal.

Campaigner Bill Bowen claims that at least 40 perverts across Scotland have been allowed to evade justice because of a church cover up.

The 44-year-old has been swamped with e-mails after a BBC documentary lifted the lid on the Christian fundamentalists.

He said: Concerned parents tell me the abuse is happening right now and is being covered up by church elders.

These children need to be protected fast, yet the authorities have not been involved.

Attacked

Bill, a former Jehovahs Witness elder, founded the US victim support group silentlambs, after a member of his own congregation was attacked. He told us: "I got a call from one Scot whose wife had been sexually abused as a child. Her abuser has since moved to another congregation. He has not been convicted and is free to keep abusing."

Bill, from Benton, Kentucky, added: "I urged the couple to go to the police."

The News of the World was shown some of the e-mails sent by Scots victims. One revealed: "At the age of 10 I was molested by the son of an elder." Another victim wrote, "I was abused by my brother."

The churchs sordid secrets were exposed when Alison Cousins told how she was molested by her father. The 19-year-old, of Stevenston, Ayrshire, went to cops after elders ignored her claims. Her father Ian, 43, was later jailed for five years.

Edited by - silentlambs on 21 July 2002 18:48:25

orangefatcat

Bill it seems as if the message is being spread far and wide and the WTBS is being exposed for covering up terrible atrocities against children who have now grown up and who are not afraid to speak up. Your courage and that of the no longer silentlambs has made a deep impression on the minds of many persons in communities all over the world.

People are taking a second look at Jehovah's Witnesses. My Aunt who is not a JW and never wants to be one watched Dateline at my recommendation as both her sisters, (my mother) and her other sister are JW's and my aunt said she was quite amazed that this has happened among JWs as they always portray themselves as better than other religions of the world, saying they have the truth. And that they have high moral standards.

So Dateline and Panarama will continue to echo all around the world, as these issues will never come to an end as the lambs shout out their message and seek their justice. I know this will be truly victorious for all of you. I wish you the best of luck on the up coming march in NewYork in September, wishing deeply I could be there with all of you, but alas it is not possible due to living on a pension.

To you and the Silentlambs may your courage be a shining light to all who look upon you from the four corners of the world. Blessings to you all.