Is this the future of JW parents?

by Elsewhere 6 Replies latest jw friends

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  Elsewhere

  Since the courts are saying that the WTS is not responsible for child molestation that is reported to them and then covered up, will the authorities go after the parents?

  http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=427&e=2&u=/krfortworth/20041209/lo_krfortworth/policemotherignoredabuses

  Police: Mother ignored abusesThu Dec 9, 9:42 AM ET Local - Fort Worth Star-Telegram

  By Deanna Boyd, Star-Telegram Staff Writer

  When the girl arrived home from visiting her grandfather this past summer, she made a terrifying admission, police said.

  Grandpa had molested her, she told her mother.

  But police say the mother refused to believe her daughter. Instead, investigators contend, the woman sent her younger daughter to visit her grandfather's Richland Hills home.

  There, police say, the 7-year-old girl was molested, too.

  On Sunday, a month after prosecutors filed two charges of aggravated sexual assault of a child against the 53-year-old grandfather, the girls' mother, Elisha Morris, was arrested in Gun Barrel City in East Texas on warrants accusing her of failure to report abuse and felony child endangerment.
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  Odrade

  I hope so, maybe then the parents' fear of being imprisoned for not protecting their children, will be greater than their fear of the elders discipline if they "bring reproach on Jehovah's name" by reporting.

  There are a few elders out there who DO have the commonsense to report child abuse, but naturally, far fewer who have the sense to report suspected child abuse to those who are qualified to investigate.

  Oregon is a mandatory reporting state. Perhaps this is why the molestors I know personally are convicted molestors. Although I don't know if Oregon has an exception for "privileged communication," which IMO, invalidates some of the mandatory reporting progress made by the 25 states that have laws on the books that include clergy.

  On another thread, a comment was made (I think by jgnat) that her church does background checks on people in authority, especially those who have contact with children. THIS is preventive. JWs do not conduct background checks on anyone. Huge oversight. If they really want to get serious about their responsibility to PREVENT child abuse, this is the LEAST of procedures they should implement. "Clean slate before Jehovah" or no, caution is warranted.
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  kaykay_mp

  That lady is probaly two martinis short of a cocktail party.

  laters

  kaykay_mp
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  Mary

  police say the mother refused to believe her daughter. Instead, investigators contend, the woman sent her younger daughter to visit her grandfather's Richland Hills home. There, police say, the 7-year-old girl was molested, too.

  What a STUPID, STUPID woman......hearing this sort of stuff absolutely infuriates me. How f*cking STUPID can a mother possibly be??? This is the same shit that happened to my grandmother when she was a kid. Her piece of shit step father tried sexually abusing her (my grandma kicked him in the balls as hard as she could). When she told her brain dead mother the next day what he tried to do, her mother beat her for "telling lies". Why are some people so god damn blind or stubborn that they let their own children be abused rather than admit there's a problem??? I just don't get that.

  This woman should be thrown in jail for a minimum of 10 years.........mayb she'll get to see what it's like to be raped. Dumb idiot.
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  HappyDad

  WOW!

  I never thougt of that. It would be fantastic if JW parents were charged and prosecuted all over the country for not reporting molestation.

  Wonder what the elders who covered it up would do................disfellowship the parents for committing a crime?

  HappyDad
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  Will Power

  if JW parents were charged and prosecuted

  That might get them thinking about how the twisted religion persuades them to make the decision not to report. Then the elders, by way of lawyers who represent the WT's interests say - it was the parents that should have - they are the ones that make their own decisions. All JWs live by their own bible trained conscience. Always point the fingers at others. If they looked in the mirror while pointing at everyone else to blame, maybe then they'd see. Self serving b@$t@rd$

  Everyone plays a part in perpetuating this cycle of emotional, physical, and spiritual abuse.
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  Country Girl

  I've noticed that in some cases here in Austin, they are going after the Mother as well. Incidentally, on those two shows about Amish sexual child abuse on Dateline and 20/20 last night, the Mother of one of the girls, who had known of her daughter's abuse by three older brothers, was given 18 months' probation for not protecting her child.

  With reference to mandatory (including clergy) states, it would be *wonderful* if they would persue criminal charges against those in clergical capacities who do not report. There is the Amararillo case... while the victim is persuing civil remedies, law enforcement hasn't done anything about it. I am just wondering if the statute of limitations is over for that one.

  Woot!

  Country Girl