Conti Appeal Preview - Oral Argument Jan 14

by Chaserious 111 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse

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  Vidiot

  OneEyedJoe - "This could be a significant factor in their refusal to comply with Zalkin's subpoena for their DB of child molesters - they don't want that list to make it to the public domain because many of the folks on it are elders/COs/etc."

  Not to mention that if the contents of said DB were to become public (and thusly local BOEs had no choice but to acknowledge its veracity), just how many JW parents would conclude that no matter where they moved, they'd probably end up in a KH with at least one alleged offender?

  And how many of them would - at that point - throw their hands up and say "f**k it, I'm not taking my kids anywhere near them"?

  The WTS has weathered a mass exodus at least twice in the past... Just how eager do you think they are to experience that again?

  And more importantly, would the Org truly survive another?

  (for the record, IMO we are the current exodus, but whatever)
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  4rationality

  Divining Liability

  Jehovah’s Witnesses sued over sex abuse claims

  Kimberlee Norris began evaluating these cases in July 2002. With some 2000 cases to choose from, Norris and partner Gregory Love came up with a rigid profile of what kind of case and where. Love and Norris decided only to take cases where they could prove the church knew its member was a perpetrator and placed him in a position of authority anyway. Norris said, ”We only take extreme cases where molestation has been reported to the congregation and the organization gives him its blessing by giving him authority.”

  As of May 2004, the firm had filed 57 suits across the country.

  Best plaintiff’s outcome, it appears-- 9 cases in California, Texas, Oregon, settled/dismissed with prejudice, 2007.

  The ‘Firm Overview’ at Love & Norris indicates a different kind of practice, a more profitable direction.