by Robo Bobo 25 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse
1) This person is an idiot.
2) No one is saying that JW congregants should not be able to confess their sins. There is no confessional for JWs. They should be able to confess. They just cannot cover up child abuse and expect moral people to approve.
3) How does this writer KNOW what the "Sex Offender" file contains?
4) This moron is telling everyone that the WTBTS has a Sex Offender Data-base.
Thanks, idiot! Keep up the good work!
DD
"Even people who have never been JWs will be at risk." ( paraphrasing )
This is exactly what happens if you don't report alleged or actual abuse. The Superior Authorities who are set up by God, according to the WTBTS, don't want abusers re-offending. They don't want JW pedophiles attacking "worldly" children while the Elders protect their own members.
Did I mention what an idiot this person is? Also, what happened to Xian neutrality?
DD
The bible sure is inconvenient when arguing that pedophiles should be protected from secular authorities because 'religion'. 1 Peter 2 (NWT).
13 For the Lord’s sake subject yourselves to every human creation, whether to a king as being superior 14 or to governors as sent by him to punish wrongdoers but to praise those who do good.15 For it is the will of God that by doing good you may silence the ignorant talk of unreasonable men.
"..after ceasing their activity.." that is one huge qualification. From where does the author get such a figure.?
So the victims then don't matter?
zeb, he's playing with the numbers. From the John Howard Society in Alberta (I looked this up earlier, before I commented, just to confirm his gross distortion of the facts). It could be 15% after only 5 years, keeping in mind that these statistics involve those who were caught and reconvicted. It naturally follows that not all are caught.
[Edit: Children don't matter to the Watchtower, and he is a zealot.]
http://www.johnhoward.ab.ca/pub/C24.htm
A long term follow-up study of child molesters in Canada found that 42% were reconvicted of sexual or violent crime during the 15-30 year follow-up period.
