Keep your mouth shut about abuse

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Jehovah Orders: Keep Your Mouth Shut About Abuse

Newspaper headline today-Interview with Watchtower spokesman

JEHOVAH-ORDERS: KEE P YOUR MOUTH SHUT ABOUT ABUSE

THE CHIL DR EN JUST FANTASIZE Old cases about sex-abuse is only hallucinations

In a secret letter to the local leaders all over Denmark Jehovah's Witnesses top leaders enforced the rule that sexual abuse of children which surface many years later are to be killed by silence. In the secret letter, a so-called action plan from May 2003 advised the local elders in the 200 congregations across the country on how to handle cases of sexual abuse of children.

The problem for the Jehovah-sect was that new laws threatened to make the sects long practice of secrecy and silence in connection with sex-abuse directly illegal and punishable.

A duty to report abuse

According to paragraph 36, in Law Regarding Social Service from 1997 everybody has a duty to go to the authorities if they have knowledge about abuse of children. Six years later the Jehovah-leaders instructed the elders to encourage parents and victims to report sexual abuse of children. In the event the parents and the victims dont do anything the elders should consider doing it. But not so regarding sex-abuse in the past. The letter also emphasizes that the local leaders, the so-called elders must never advise parents and victims against going to the Social Authorities to report about recent abuse.

Must consider reporting to the police

If parents or the victim do not report the abuse, the elders can consider if they should make contact with the social authoritiesý, writes the Headquarters but at the same time instructs the local elders to maintain strong secrecy. P arents and victims now have something new in the Jehovah-sect they are now allowed to go to the authorities, even before a judicial Jehovah-committee has spoken. But regardless of the outcome the ab user will not be expelled from the sect if he denies the allegations and there arent two witnesses to the crime. Then one has to put the case into the hands of Jehovah the letter, which is so secret it cant be copied, says. Sexual abuse which has occurred in the more distant past will not be dealt with, but regarded as pure hallucinations if the alleged ab user s do not confess.

Let old cases be forgotten

Point five in the secret lette r r efers to the old rules in the Watchtower magazine from November 1995. As Ekstra Bladet has reported several times, that article advised against going reporting sex abuse to the authorities, if the abuse happened some time in the past and is the result of so-called recovered memories. Then it is dismissed as hallucinations and false memories, which is to be held strictly confidential.

Only if the alleged ab user confesses, will the elders take action. If the ab user denies the charges there has to be two or three witnesses for the elders to do anything. Even though another victi m c omes forward accusing the same ab user , it will be best to let it all be forgotten, states the Watchtower ru les.

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Published in the paper issue 11/5-2004

(On the same page a huge picture from an assembly. Picture caption: "In Jehovah's Han ds - If a sex-abused child among the 20,000 Danish Jehovah's Witnesses is

unable to produce two or three witnesses to the abuse and the ab user doesnt confess, the victims has to console themselves that Jehovah himself will put it right")

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(Interview with Jehovah's Witness spokesman Erik Joergensen)

The orders are now withdrawn

It took Jehovah's Witnesses leaders six years to make an action plan. But it took only five months for it to be revised. The sects headquarters in Brooklyn , New York , USA promptly decreed rewriting the text when they discovered that their r ules violated Constitutional Law regarding Social Service. Spokesman for Jehovah's Witnesses in Denmark , Erik Joergensen says to Ekstra Bladet: The expression consider emphasize that the elders should show consideration if the special circumstance should arise that parents/victims dont report the abuse.

After deliberations with our headquarters in Brooklyn , we became aware that this expression could be misunderstood. Thatýs why the action plan was immediately withdrawn and replaced by a new one the 20th of October, which instructs the elders plainly to report all accusations to the authorities.

Disgusting abuse

Reporter- The law from 1997. Why did it take until May 2003, before you issued an action plan?

Erik Joergensen- We have done a lot during those six years. We have given direction to people that have contacted us.

Reporter- Why did you bend the law in the first action plan?

Erik Joergensen- That wasnýt our intention and it is now corrected.

Reporter- Are Jehovah's Witnesses above the Law?

Erik Joergensen- Not at all - we are to follow the Law as everybody else. Sexual abuse of children is detestable.

Reporter- What consequences does violating confidentiality have?

Erik Joergensen-Gods Will - I have no comment.

Reporter- What does Leaving it in Jehovahs hand mean?

Erik Joergensen- If adults have problems with recovered memories it usually means that there is doubt whether something has really happened or if it is only fantasy. Then it is very difficult for the committee to find out what is right or wrong. Therefore Jehovah God that is, will have to decide in such matters.

As far as he knows all cases of abuse that has occurred since the Law was changed has been reported to the authorities.

Erick Joergensen- We encourage parents/victims to report the abuse themselves to the Social authorities, the number of cases are relatively few

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BY KIM AHRENTZEN

(Box on the same page)

THE CASE IN SHORT

Ekstra Bladet has the latest weeks described how Jehovah's Witnesses has omitted to report sexual abuse of children. Instead of adhering to the Law of the land the religious sect has preferred to handle the cases with manipulations and internal justice. Usually with reference to selected Bible texts.

Sexual abuse of children is often referred to as hallucinations or recovered memories. The victims find themselves accused, and choose to keep silent about the humiliations. Jehovah's Witnesses are an extre mel y closed organization with about 20,000 members in Denmark .

They receive extensive subsidies in the form of tax exemption because it is a registered church. The economy is secret ý the financial statements are known by but a few.

run dont walk

unreal

nuff said

shamus

But yet witnesses still have they're heads up they're asses when you talk of this sexual abuse.

When I was a dub we were studying the REvelation book. My favorite thing to do was comment on false religion and how they abused people and covered it up... there were plenty of boxes exposing 'false religion's' handling of sex abuse cases.

Who would have ever thought that the WTBTS, who was in a glass house, threw -stones. They are t-he original liars......

sorry about the dashes. My cat is attacking the keyboard.

avengers

I wonder whose names will come up if these are ever opened. And why doesn't the Watchtower want them to be opened?
What is the reason? Nobody will know until then. So watch out! You don't know who's sitting next to you in the Kingdom Hall.
Isn't this really a grand ~~Spiritual~~ Pedophile Paradise?

talesin

the letter, which is so secret it cant be copied, says

This concerns me. Not that it makes me disbelieve, however, it may be a way for the WTS to try to discredit this report. Unfortunate. Was the letter reported verbally? In that case, they may take this line ... how do they know that para. 5 says such-and-such and so-and-so and other such specifics.

Once again, I am merely critiquing. hmmmm, wish we had a copy!!!

OTOH, it looks like we have a mole!! And one who has revealed some really damning information. YIPPEE!!

sorry about the dashes. My cat is attacking the keyboard.

LMAO @ shamus

(S)he just wants attention!

talesin

Nordic

Hi talesin

The secret letter from WT was in the newspaper, so everybody could se it.

Nordic

Newsletter

Satan's Witnesses 3

Denmark newspaper exposes 5/15/03 BOE letter

11. 05. 2004

EDITORIAL

SATANS WITNESSES 3

Let the children come to us, is the call of Jehovah's Witnesses ( Photo: Thomas Borberg)

EKSTRA BLADET has in the last weeks uncovered disturbing conditions in one of the most revolting, so-called Christian sects: Jehovah's Witnesses. We deliberately call them Satans Witnesses, because thats what they are. Today we are a making a third attempt at cleansing the Temple Courtyard .

IT IS ARRANGED with a tyranny of rules and an authoritarian elder-rule which reminds us of deranged Muslim movements. Numerous families are divided and thousands of souls are stunted by the Jehovah-dictatorship who issues threats of perdition and loss of eternal life if a member doesnýt obey the Jehovah-bosses.

ONE WONDERS how it is possible for such a deranged enterprise to recruit new members. But they are running a hard recruitment campaign at the doors to gather new members. Jehovah's Witnesses are known for fishing souls amon g the nave and among people in a vulnerable situation, where the Witnesses fake comfort is welcome.

THIS DISTASTEFUL blend distinguishes themselves from other insane sects with their r emarkable interest in pedophilia. Jehovah's Witnesses can probably be accused of many different crimes against human decency. But they have issued detailed guidelines about handling of sexual abuse against children as late as May 15. 2003.

THEY KNOW FULL WELL that it is insane, for the document is issued with a warning that it must not be copied but is only for the body of elders, only to the sects top leaders in the country. Thats why it is such a special joy today to let its content be enjoyed by the Ekstra Bladets 550,000 readers.

WHAT IS IT THEN that is so important with sex-abuse against children that it deserves a special codex? Well, it emphasizes pedophile crimes that are revealed many years after the crime are to be killed by silence.

THE DANISH branch office has with many years delay discovered that adults in this country have a duty to report probable abuse of children. Thats why their r ules are jumbled together so as to make the allegations judicially passable.

BUT THEY are not. And Satans Witnesses make themselves deserve this name by a rule that the pedophile should not be expelled from the sect if he denies the allegations unless two or three witnesses step forward. When do you find two witnesses to a sex crime unless one is talking about a mass rape?

IN OTHER WORDS: Sexual abuse of children is something Satans Witnesses are ordered to cover up. By these actions the sect has marked itself much more severely then we could do it. Only God knows how many children walks around suffering traumas from the Witnesses abuse and are threatened into silence.

http://ekstrabladet.dk/VisArtikel.iasp?TemplateID=4587

badboy

Who wants to be assoiceted with such people?

Elsewhere

After deliberations with our headquarters in Brooklyn , we became aware that this expression could be misunderstood. Thatýs why the action plan was immediately withdrawn and replaced by a new one the 20th of October, which instructs the elders plainly to report all accusations to the authorities

Can you say....

BUSTED!!!!

Nordic

Here is the secret BOE letter from Denmark :

http://www.silentlambs.org/denmarkboe.htm

Keep your mouth shut about abuse

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