i just received the following message from a friend this morning.. barbara.
eloise dupuis, 27 years old, died at the hotel dieu hospital in lévis, quebec, canada, wednesday, october 12th.
she died because of her religious principles.
I just received the following message from a friend this morning.
Barbara
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Eloise Dupuis, 27 years old, died at the Hotel Dieu Hospital in Lévis, Quebec, Canada, Wednesday, October 12th. She died because of her religious principles. She was a Jehovah's Witness and she had to refuse the blood transfusion that could save her life and allow her to hold her new born.
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an analysis of watch tower of britain’s last (january 2013) child safeguarding policy by barbara anderson.
last year, i was asked to review watch tower of britain’s child safeguarding policy and its implementation.
what i discovered was depressing and disappointing especially because the policy contained just a single statement (#18) directing elder/trustees on how to protect children in their congregations from avoidable harm - they were to restrict a repentant abuser “…from being alone in the company of children.” the policy did not explain what procedures to follow to assure that abusers would obey that rule.
An ANALYSIS of Watch Tower of Britain’s last (January 2013) Child Safeguarding Policy by Barbara Anderson
Last year, I was asked to
review Watch Tower of Britain’s Child Safeguarding Policy and its
implementation. What I discovered was depressing and disappointing especially
because the Policy contained just a single statement (#18) directing
elder/Trustees on how to protect children in their congregations from avoidable
harm - they were to restrict a repentant abuser “…from being alone in the
company of children.” The Policy did not explain what procedures to follow to
assure that abusers would obey that rule.
In addition, none of the
guidelines discussed in the other twenty-three statements of policy
specifically defined what elders should do to protect children in their
congregations.
FYI, after Watch Tower submitted their Child Protection Policy
to the Charity Commission more cases were reported within UK Jehovah's Witnesses congregations
– including one involving a Kingdom Hall Trustee.
Read my complete report, although I admit it's lengthy,
to see that this so-called Child Safeguarding Policy does not protect children
but endeavors to protect Watch Tower of Britain from responsibility and
liability.
http://watchtowerdocuments.org/watchtowers-child-safeguarding-policy-great-britain-ireland-uk/
http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/peter-stanford-slam-door-shut-door-to-door-fundraising/article/1410250.
peter stanford: slam the door shut on door-to-door fundraising.
03 october 2016 , 5 comments .
http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/peter-stanford-slam-door-shut-door-to-door-fundraising/article/1410250
03 October 2016 , 5 comments
It can still be very effective, but the risk to the good name of charities is getting too large, writes our columnist
Door-to-door fundraising never seems far removed from controversy, whether it be for the methods used, the unhappiness it causes some of those targeted or the damage it risks doing to the reputation of the sector. The Royal British Legion is the latest organisation to end door-to-door after a newspaper exposed the misleading sales patter used by some on the doorstep acting on its behalf.
I'd like to make a plea that the trustees of other charities that still use such an outdated and controversial method of fundraising follow the legion's lead, or at least table a discussion of it for the next trustees meeting. Then we might see the back of a technique that appears to do us little credit.
Do charities really want to risk being likened to a church such as the Jehovah's Witnesses?
Peter Stanford
I understand the arguments in its favour. It can still be very effective, but the risk to the good name of charities - their greatest asset in dealing with the public - is getting too large.
I'm never sure which irks me most: the knock at the front door from a charity rep, or the presence on my doorstep of Jehovah's Witnesses. Both seem to contrive to come at precisely the least convenient time. Early evening on a weekday is, granted, a good time to catch working parents at home, making dinner, but it is also by the same measure when they are busy.
And both groups fail in equal measure to make any allowance for choices the people they are disturbing have already made. I was recently bothered for a good 10 minutes by a cold-calling young man representing a charity to which I make regular donations. When I told him that, after 30 seconds, he carried on with his spiel. When I repeated it in words of one syllable, he asked me if I wanted to increase the monthly amount. My strongest instinct was to cancel the direct debit altogether.
Likewise, when the Jehovah's Witnesses start their sales pitch for God, I try nicely to say I'm Catholic. In other words, I'm covered, thank you. But they don't even blink and carry on regardless, as if I am an atheist. And there's one more parallel to add: both sets of cold-callers keep coming back. No thank you is never enough, apparently.
Do charities really want to risk being likened to a church such as the Jehovah's Witnesses, which enjoys such a dubious reputation with the public: part joke, part sinister?
READ MORE:
http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/peter-stanford-slam-door-shut-door-to-door-fundraising/article/1410250
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http://bvinews.com/new/lewis-gets-42-months-for-molesting-boy-to-pay-10k/.
lewis gets 42 months for molesting boy; to pay $10k.
in all news / by: bvi news online on october 3, 2016 at 4:32 pm / oliver lewis during one of his court appearances.
http://bvinews.com/new/lewis-gets-42-months-for-molesting-boy-to-pay-10k/
Oliver Lewis during one of his court appearances
Oliver Lewis, a Guyanese native who was found guilty of six counts of gross indecency with a 13-year-old boy, has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison.
He also has been ordered to compensate the family of the victim $10,000 or spend an additional six months in prison.
Elaborating on the compensation order, Magistrate Ayanna Baptiste DaBreo stated that it is for the victim to get counselling as a result of the ordeal he faced.
She made it clear that: “No way is this court saying that any monetary sum can make up in any way for the [offences].”
Breakdown of sentence
The magistrate handed down a prison sentence for each count of the offence.
When those sentences are combined, Lewis would have served a prison term of 162 months (13 and half years).
A break-down of those years is as follows: 12 months for the first count; 18 months for the second count; 24 months for the third; 30 months for the fourth; 36 months for the fifth; and 42 months imprisonment for the sixth count.
But the Magistrate ordered that the sentences run concurrently (at the same time). Effectively, this means Lewis will only spend 42 months in prison.
He will only spend an additional six months if he does not compensate the family of the victim.
‘Prison is not for me’
Before hearing the judgement, Lewis – who has been in custody since December last year – told the court that prison is not for him.
“Throughout my entire ordeal in prison, it was not a good experience. Prison is not for me… [and] I’m sorry for wasting the court’s time.”
Lewis – who the court heard is a Jehovah’s Witness – also added that he was praying for the court and the family of the young victim.
During the trial last year, the boy’s father stated that he knew Lewis, as they both were members of a Jehovah’s Witness Church.
He said they were friends for about three years.
The father told the court that Lewis became a friend of his 13 year-old son, and would often pick him up from school to take him on various job sites.
He added that Lewis would explain to him that he was giving the boy job training, and that he (Lewis) needed the help.
The father also told the court that he trusted Lewis and never expected ‘anything like that (molestation) to happen’.
The father said he started to realize that something questionable was taking place between Lewis and the boy after the boy and one of his brothers had a dispute and certain things were said.
“[My son] told me everything that was going on between him and Mr Lewis,” added the father.
Some days later, the father confronted Lewis and told him he knew what was going on.
According to the father, Lewis asked: “Can you forgive me?”
Describing Lewis as a psychopath, the father further told the court that he (Lewis) wanted them to treat the matter as one that could have been settled religiously.
He however opted to take the matter before the court, noting that a crime was committed against his son.
END OF ARTICLE - Comments are interesting.
http://bvinews.com/new/lewis-gets-42-months-for-molesting-boy-to-pay-10k/
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ICSA Annual Conference in Bordeaux, France – June 29 – July 1, 2017 (preconference workshops on June 29th)
Call for Papers deadline for this conference is next month. If you want to submit a proposal to speak, see the Call for Papers and get your proposal in before the deadline.
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Leaving and Recovering from Cultic Groups and Relationships: A Workshop for Families and Former Members
October 15-16, 2016, Los Angeles, California
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Dangerous Liaisons: The Truth About Campus Predators, Toxic Relationships, and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Teens
October 23, 2016, Garden City, NY
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December 9-11, 2016
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April 21-22, 2017, Fort Myers, Florida
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announcement from spain:.
on monday 26th septriembre, www.elperiodico.es published in its online edition the first publicly reported case of child abuse and harassment in spain watchtower, digital edition monday, tuesday print edition.
please maximum dissemination of the link, it will be online early in the morning of monday 26, in the online edition.
Miguel Garcia is writing about his experience which the newspaper article is about at:
announcement from spain:.
on monday 26th septriembre, www.elperiodico.es published in its online edition the first publicly reported case of child abuse and harassment in spain watchtower, digital edition monday, tuesday print edition.
please maximum dissemination of the link, it will be online early in the morning of monday 26, in the online edition.
Here's the email I received from Spain this afternoon and the link is the same as the one Darkspilver posted:
I Google translated the article and it mentions child abuse and harassment, but mainly the article is about disfellowshipping someone who left the religion five-years ago and is being accused by a judicial committee of adultery:
"Jehovah's Witnesses want to judge me for adultery"
Monday, September 26, 2016 - 22:15 IST
"We get in touch with you (...) because he has had sex outside marriage. For this reason we quote him for a court hearing, it is our theocratic responsibility. " With these words begins the letter that the French Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses in Cardedeu sent this man of 43 years ceased to be a member of this community "about five years".
This document, which confirms the existence of parallel trials devotees of confession is "strange," said Miguel Garcia, for the book "Shepherd the Flock '-of exclusively for elders who lead the congregaciones- detailing how to form a "judicial committee" and clarifies that it must "cited the defendant orally". It adds that if "a journalist or a lawyer" question from these lawsuits should not "provide any information or confirm their existence."
THE CONGREGATION IS deny
This newspaper has contacted one of the three elders who have cited Miguel Garcia for trial on Monday 26 September. As dictated by the book entry, the old man has denied most. "First news," he responded. After learning that appear with your name signing the letter of invitation, he acknowledged that the trial did exist. This session was to be held at the Kingdom Hall of Cardedeu His local- because it is a "theocratic framework" that "instills greater respect in the present."
"Failure" of the three elders, according to the text, has for the accused "lasting and large-scale consequences." Offenses included in such serious Criminal Code as murder, rape and sexual abuse of minors or made even punishable as smoking or getting drunk deserve the celebration of these judgments.
Miguel Garcia was separated from his wife to leave confession and four years later formally divorced. To "liberate" his wife, he wrote a letter in which he explained that he had a new relationship. Thus, she could get the "biblical divorce" and remarrying. Garcia suspected that currently have a homosexual relationship has motivated the background is called court hearing for adultery. It is, says Garcia, a "homophobic" community, and as proof refers to an internal video
PUNITIVE IF THERE DURESS
Legal sources emphasize that holding such parallel to the existing legislation has "no validity" judgments. And that would be something "punishable" if it were shown that there are constraints to force and comply undergo these punishments imposed. Usually, it is a public reprimand or expulsion directly confession. This second is traumatic when it suffers a member of a family of the same creed because thereafter should restrict the relationship with other relatives.
In May 2014, the Minister of Justice of Finland, Anna-Maija Henriksson, warned that "no room" in the country "for two judicial systems". He did so after 18 former members of Jehovah's Witnesses denounced the existence of these judicial committees with the capacity to condemn the "ostracism" the accused.
TO THE MOSSOS
Miguel Garcia says that leaving the organization almost five years ago was "harassed" by his former teammate. "I ended up suffering an anxiety attack, I was admitted to the hospital and stood there. I had to ask the nurses not to let them in," he recalls. On April 19, 2014 sent them a burofax to require that law enforcement protection of personal data erase all information concerning him. They answered and said documents, they would stay with their data because he kept on file consisting as "baptized member."
After receiving the
summons for trial, he has reported to the Mossos to Jehovah's Witnesses
harassment, for refusing to delete personal data and cover up sexual abuse he
suffered in a congregation of Belgium, and has taken legal action for moral
damages.
Aníbal Matos, a spokesman
for Jehovah's Witnesses, admitted the existence of these judicial committees
but said that "not mandatory" nor "punishments are
imposed." It is only interventions to "give biblical guidance"
to members of a congregation.
announcement from spain:.
on monday 26th septriembre, www.elperiodico.es published in its online edition the first publicly reported case of child abuse and harassment in spain watchtower, digital edition monday, tuesday print edition.
please maximum dissemination of the link, it will be online early in the morning of monday 26, in the online edition.
I received the following message from Spain this morning:
hoy daremos link de la serie de artículos sobre abusos sexuales de menores en España, denuncia ante la policia y mucho, mucho asín por el estilo
Google translated: Today we will link the series of articles on sexual abuse of minors in Spain, complaint with the police and much, much as ín like that
over a month ago, the associated press in minneapolis reported that counterfeit pills were found at prince’s home.
some contained powerful opioid fentanyl, a synthetic drug 50 times stronger than heroin found in dozens of pills.
these and other mislabeled drugs were found in luggage belonging to the late music star.
Over a month ago, the
Associated Press in Minneapolis reported that counterfeit pills were found at
Prince’s home. Some contained powerful opioid fentanyl, a synthetic drug 50
times stronger than heroin found in dozens of pills. These and other mislabeled
drugs were found in luggage belonging to the late music star. Clearly, JWs
elders knew about Prince's drug addiction problem, but treated him differently
than they did ordinary JWs with addictions because of who he was. However, it's
about time all JWs who are struggling with addiction have mercy shown them
rather than punishment. Why?
http://watchtowerdocuments.org/why-did-jws-ignore-princes-drug-addictions/
![Prince performing [public domain]](http://watchtowerdocuments.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Prince-2.jpg)
After Prince’s death, George Cook (an elder at the Kingdom Hall where Prince attended JW meetings) was reported to have said the church does not have a problem with Prince’s reported addiction to prescription drugs because “that’s a personal matter.” “Brother” Cook made this statement after Prince’s death in April, 2016 and before the memorial at the Saint Louis Park JW Kingdom Hall in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Many celebrities were in the audience, including some who were also Jehovah’s Witnesses.
The Guardian (August 21, 2016) reported that many powerful synthetic drugs such as oxycodone, fentanyl, lidocaine and U-4770 (a synthetic drug that is eight times more powerful than morphine*) were found in Prince’s home. The presence and the amounts of those drugs strongly suggested that he was absolutely addicted to drugs.
*[LINK to The Guardian (UK) news article]
This leads us to ask if the JW elders at Prince’s Kingdom Hall suffer any remorse? They clearly sent a message that money and fame talks when they jumped on the publicity train (with the permission of Watchtower’s leaders in New York) by allowing their “Jehovah’s Witness church” to be “heavily involved in the star’s memorial service.” **
**[LINK to Daily Mail (UK) news article]
Please note that these same elders, seemingly without any reservation, participated in and managed Prince’s funeral and memorial, and yet some of them with decades of judicial hearings under their belts, have disfellowshipped many ordinary Jehovah’s Witnesses for using or being addicted to cigarettes or opiate drugs. Their actions have resulted in anguish and despair due to their strictly enforced and hard-hearted “shunning” of those addicted to drugs. Rather than “practice mercy” by offering support and encouragement to find treatment for an addiction, they would rather punish those addicted – ostensibly to keep the “organization (Jehovah’s Witnesses) clean.”
WAIT - THERE'S MORE: READ ON: http://watchtowerdocuments.org/why-did-jws-ignore-princes-drug-addictions/
announcement from spain:.
on monday 26th septriembre, www.elperiodico.es published in its online edition the first publicly reported case of child abuse and harassment in spain watchtower, digital edition monday, tuesday print edition.
please maximum dissemination of the link, it will be online early in the morning of monday 26, in the online edition.
Announcement from SPAIN:
On Monday 26th septriembre, www.elperiodico.es published in its online edition the first publicly reported case of child abuse and harassment in Spain Watchtower, digital edition Monday, Tuesday print edition.
Greetings to all. Please maximum dissemination of the link, it will be online early in the morning of Monday 26, in the online edition.
... www.elperiodico.es
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El próximo lunes día 26 de septriembre, www.elperiodico.es publicará en su edición digital el primer caso denunciado publicamente de abuso de menores en España y de acoso de la Watchtower, lunes edición digital, martes edición impresa.
Saludos a todos. Rogamos la máxima difusión del enlace, estará en la red a primera hora de la mañana del lunes 26, en la edición digital.
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I just received this news through email. If you are a Spanish poster here on JWN, please try to access this story on Monday and post it. It would be wonderful if the article was translated into English for us. Thanx.
