Jw's Face More Pedophilia Woes

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  • Kenneson
    Kenneson

    An interesting story involvling Jws and pedophilia has come out in England.

    http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/

    Click on news.

    Then scroll down to "Click here for more local news" After going down page one, find page 2 and click. That will lead you to the article "Church's stance attacked" For the "lazy" here is the story:

    A man whose son was sexually abused by a Jehovah's Witness has criticized the church after leaders said they would consider keeping the paedophile in their ranks.

    The father, who cannot be named for legal reasons, claims Jaswant Patti is still a member of the church, which requires its congregation to be "morally clean."

    A Jehovah's Witness spokesman confirmed the church is carrying out an internal investigation into the case, after which Patti could remain a member if he shows "genuine repentance."

    Patti was jailed for five years in 1999 after he was found guilty of four offences of indecent assault and one other serious sexual assault against two boys, then aged nine and fourteen.

    Following the conviction, church leaders of the Rubery Congregation of the Jehovah's Witnesses, in New Street, Rubery, backed Patti. Philip Price, one of the church's elders, even questioned the verdict, quering the strength of the evidence.

    The father of one of the victims said: "The church has a policy of disfellowshipping which can be applied to a person who has got a smoking problem and finds it hard to give up.

    "Why is Jaswant Patti, who has been convicted and whose name will be on the sex offenders' register for the rest of his life, hasn't been disfellowshipped?"

    The spokesman for the U.K. headquarters of the church said he was not able to comment on specific cases.

    But he added: "If someone has committed repugnant acts they will be disfellowshipped but it depends on a person's attitude.

    "If a person shows genuine repentance it might not mean they are expelled. That's what the elders in the congregagtion would have to determine.

    "To be one of Jehovah's Witnesses you have to be morally clean and we try our utmost to keep the depraved out. The person would have to go a long way to prove they're genuinely repentant.

    "If they remained a member they would never occupy a position of responsiblity."

  • Mary
    Mary

    Pathetically typical.............all I can say is: Thank God that bastard that raped and killed Samantha Runnion wasn't a Witness.........because her mother would have already been disfellowshipped for going to the police.....and Alejandro Avila would probably be giving the Instruction Talk tonight............

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  • Dia
    Dia

    Regarding: 'Genuinely repentent'

    One can't help but to notice that these guys believe that their own intuition about something is EVERYTHING.

    They believe in THEMSELVES to an ABSURD degree.

    Their little antenna about what is in someone's heart is more reliable, they believe, than ANYTHING - lie detectors, experienced officers of the law and the courts, etc. etc, etc.

    If they can ever point a finger at ANY one time any of these things were in error, they will quickly jump to the conclusion that all of them are ALWAYS in error - and surely always when it's a Jehovah's Witness that's involved.

    And ONLY THEY can REALLY see the faces behind all the many masks.

    Yoo-hoo....not to rain on your parade, but look around you - you are surrounded by criminals - child molestors, sex perverts and liars.

    You don't have any intuition. The thing you're good at is zeroing in on a normal person's reasonable doubt and beating them to a bloody pulp with it.

    Shame, shame, shame...

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