HELP NEEDED: Cases where sexually abused JWs were disfellowshipped as retaliation for reporting to authorities.

by EdenOne 3 Replies latest watchtower scandals

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  EdenOne

  I have read in this forum many compelling stories of people who were sexually abused as minors while associated with the JW's. I need your help please.

  I need to be directed to threads where victims tell their stories (preferably if these ended up in court) of abuse and where there was this key element to the story: THEY WERE INTIMIDATED WITH THREATS OF EXCOMMUNICATION TO NOT REPORT THEIR ABUSE TO AUTHORITIES and/or THEY SUFFERED RETALIATION IN THE FORM OF DISFELLOWSHIPPING/DISASSOCIATION FOR REPORTING THE CRIME TO THE AUTHORITIES.

  I recall one story, that I really would like to find again, when someone went to the elders with a complaint of having been sexually abused, the elders confronted the abuser and he denied. Since there were no two witnesses to the wrongdoing, the victim ended up disfellowshipped because he/she admitted to sexual immorality, while the abuser remained in good standing in the congregation, despite having been convicted in court.

  Please let me know. If there's a link to the court cases, even better.

  Eden
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  zachias

  there were numerous accounts given to the CARC.
  
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  Vidiot

  They labelled it as "unrepentent slander" or somesuch.
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  zachias

  I have read of people threatened with "you could be sued for slander" but no one has ever laid out just how or by who.

  There is often this big boogieman threat thing held over jw heads and useful to them as the elders using it know the average and in the main jw have scant education and even less in such matters as being sued for slander.