Just having a quick read through, the findings are damning. Mr Toole is being reported to the law society of Australia...
A few highlights so far:
The practices and procedures of the Jehovah’s Witness organisation for the prevention of child sexual abuse, and in particular for the management of the risk of an abuser reoffending, do not take account of the actual risk of an offender reoffending and accordingly place children in the organisation at significant risk of sexual abuse.
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F70 The Jehovah’s Witness organisation’s policy of requiring its adherents to actively shun those who leave the organisation:
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makes it extremely difficult for someone to leave the organisation
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b) is cruel on those who leave and on their friends and family who remain behind
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c) is particularly cruel on those who have suffered child sexual abuse in the organisation and
who wish to leave because they feel that their complaints about it have not been
adequately dealt with
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d) is not apparently justified by the Scriptures which are cited in support of it
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e) is adopted and enforced in order to prevent people from leaving the organisation and
thereby to maintain its membership, and
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f) is in conflict with the organisation’s professed support for freedom of religious choice
and the belief that Jehovah God is a compassionate God who recognises the worth and dignity of all human beings