Article: Jehovah's Witnesses lose court fight to obtain abuse inquiry report before victims

by Tahoe 15 Replies latest watchtower scandals

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  FragrantAddendum

  "...how deep does the wt's csa rabbit hole go?"

  mariana trench comes to mind

  (although kermadec is closer to nz)
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  karter

  Notformer , The branch was on 10 acres of prime land sold for i belive $52 million to another church. They had owned it for many years so a good capitial gain there.

  As usual anyone who said anything was quicky dissmissed as "Specking out against the organization" ect.

  The head man at the branch was given a flat next to a K.H and demoted to now a nobody insted of being worshiped everywhere he went.... the rest were layed off to go into the wilderness after many years serving there.

  Karter.
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  Vidiot

  karter - “As usual anyone who said anything was quicky dissmissed as ‘Specking out against the organization” ect.”

  Figures.

  The moment you use heavy-handed (or under-handed) methods in your attempt to claim the moral high ground…

  …you forfeit the moral high ground.

  
  
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  NotFormer

  Vidiot, can you blame them? There was $52m involved! Do know any WT higher-up who wouldn't sell his own grandma for a sum like that?

  Actually, that is a huge sum for a church to come up with (although they probably borrowed a lot of it). The church that bought it would have to be Hillsong sized, or something like the Catholics or the Anglicans selling one property to buy another.
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  NotFormer

  "The head man at the branch was given a flat next to a K.H and demoted to now a nobody instead of being worshiped everywhere he went.... the rest were layed off to go into the wilderness after many years serving there."

  Loyalty to the slave has its rewards. 🙄

  You'd think that he'd be transferred to the Sydney branch and commute between Sydney and NZ. That's how a sane organisation would handle something similar.
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  Vidiot

  “…just how deep does the WT’s CSA rabbit hole go?"

  For the record, I’d already concluded it was pretty deep, for one reason in particular.

  In response to the Dateline expose back in ‘02, they semi-publicly announced that (“known” 🙄) sex offenders could no longer serve in any congregational capacity.

  What wasn’t common knowledge until long after was that they quietly reversed that position just a couple years later.

  I couldn’t figure out why for the longest time, until I stumbled onto the only explanation that fit…

  …there had to be so many offenders, that there weren’t enough “qualified brothers” able to “reach out” and run things at the grassroots level otherwise.

  Which was, needless to say, disturbing as fuck.