Thank you blondie for that link
Another one bites the dust
by stillin 19 Replies latest watchtower scandals
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Still Totally ADD
Amen blondle, Amen. Still Totally ADD
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stillin
Used2b, nope, that’s another one
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millie210
Thank you for sharing this local experience stillin.
I don't think you sound like your sympathies are with the man being charged. Rather, it sounds like you are trying to examine all the factors in his life that could have led up to where things are now.
In my area of the world, we define a pedophile as one who has a sexual interest in pre-pubescent children.
This man was accused of sexual assault on a minor. I am thinking that would be someone under the age of 18?
A different category of offender.
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stillin
The news article said that the victim is 11-14 years old.
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millie210
Ah...my apologies. The article linked in this thread is about a different person then I am assuming?
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stillin
Millie, yes. If everybody on this forum posted a link to a local situation where a Witness has been charged with a sex crime, we would have a lot of reading to do!
I feel badly for the parents of this kid. They have been plugging along for years, doing their best for the religion they think is true. They're "salt of the earth" type people, quietly helping others out when they could. I imagine they are taking this pretty hard.
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Diogenesister
I’m probably not going to be very popular here, but I think the fact the religion infantilises it’s members doesn’t help. For instance the guy in the other case posted on this thread - I think in his late 30s - having a relationship with a 17 year old. In the UK that type of relationship is legal and although it’s inappropriate I don’t consider it paedophilic . I think the repression and infantilisation of JWs seems to make this kind of weird relationship more prevalent among them.
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redvip2000
Based on growing up with a pedophile father, I am not so likely to have much empathy for pedophiles. I tend to have empathy only for the victims.
Yeah, but the reality is that we know so little about the brain, that perhaps we really should empathize with those folks. Empathy in the sense that they were perhaps born with a pathological disposition to like certain things that are disgusting.
We still should punish them, but nevertheless it could well be they were dealt a hand by nature that makes conforming to rules a much harder proposition.
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Cadellin
There is a big difference between a 30 year old wanting to have sex with a 17 year old and wanting to have sex with a 7 year old.