Jury awards $34M to one woman, not two women were awarded $35M. First report was incorrect.
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Montana jury awards two women $35M in sex abuse lawsuit against Jehovah's Witnesses
by AndersonsInfo inhttps://missoulian.com/news/local/montana-jury-awards-two-women-m-in-sex-abuse-lawsuit/article_1bcabb7c-7381-574b-a2ba-e011cc0250a6.html.
montana jury awards two women $35m in sex abuse lawsuit against jehovah's witnesses .
a jury in northwestern montana awarded two women $35 million wednesday in their lawsuit against the local jehovah’s witnesses congregation and its worldwide headquarters.. .
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Montana jury awards two women $35M in sex abuse lawsuit against Jehovah's Witnesses
by AndersonsInfo inhttps://missoulian.com/news/local/montana-jury-awards-two-women-m-in-sex-abuse-lawsuit/article_1bcabb7c-7381-574b-a2ba-e011cc0250a6.html.
montana jury awards two women $35m in sex abuse lawsuit against jehovah's witnesses .
a jury in northwestern montana awarded two women $35 million wednesday in their lawsuit against the local jehovah’s witnesses congregation and its worldwide headquarters.. .
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The first report was incorrect. The jury awarded $34M to one woman, not $35M to two women.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/jury-jehovahs-witnesses-must-pay-34m-to-abuse-survivor/2018/09/27/5dc84a7a-c277-11e8-9451-e878f96be19b_story.html?utm_term=.6475dc5e243b
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/montana/articles/2018-09-27/jury-jehovahs-witnesses-must-pay-34m-to-abuse-survivor -
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Montana jury awards two women $35M in sex abuse lawsuit against Jehovah's Witnesses
by AndersonsInfo inhttps://missoulian.com/news/local/montana-jury-awards-two-women-m-in-sex-abuse-lawsuit/article_1bcabb7c-7381-574b-a2ba-e011cc0250a6.html.
montana jury awards two women $35m in sex abuse lawsuit against jehovah's witnesses .
a jury in northwestern montana awarded two women $35 million wednesday in their lawsuit against the local jehovah’s witnesses congregation and its worldwide headquarters.. .
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Montana jury: Jehovah's Witnesses must pay $34M to abuse survivor
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HELENA — A Montana jury has ruled that the Jehovah's Witnesses organization must pay $34 million to a woman who says the church covered up her sexual abuse as a child at the hands of a congregation member.
Neil Smith, an attorney representing the 32-year-old woman, says the jury's verdict Wednesday in the lawsuit sends a message to the Jehovah's Witnesses' New York headquarters to stop prioritizing church secrecy over children's safety.
Jehovah's Witness officials did not immediately respond to a call or email for comment.
The monetary award must be reviewed by the trial judge.
The jury dismissed claims by a second woman who alleged abuse by the same man in Thompson Falls in the 1990s.
The jury concluded church elders did not receive notice of the second woman's abuse and therefore did not have a duty to tell authorities.
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Montana jury awards two women $35M in sex abuse lawsuit against Jehovah's Witnesses
by AndersonsInfo inhttps://missoulian.com/news/local/montana-jury-awards-two-women-m-in-sex-abuse-lawsuit/article_1bcabb7c-7381-574b-a2ba-e011cc0250a6.html.
montana jury awards two women $35m in sex abuse lawsuit against jehovah's witnesses .
a jury in northwestern montana awarded two women $35 million wednesday in their lawsuit against the local jehovah’s witnesses congregation and its worldwide headquarters.. .
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Montana jury awards two women $35M in sex abuse lawsuit against Jehovah's Witnesses
A jury in northwestern Montana awarded two women $35 million Wednesday in their lawsuit against the local Jehovah’s Witnesses congregation and its worldwide headquarters.
The decision came down after a three-day trial. The Thompson Falls congregation and Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, the church’s institutional center in New York and Pennsylvania, will pay $4 million in compensation and $31 million in punitive damages to two women who sued the church in 2016.
The women said Max Reyes, a member of the Thompson Falls congregation, sexually assaulted, molested and raped them over a 13-year period in the 1990s and 2000s, both before he was severed from the congregation and after leadership reinstated him 14 months later.
Watchtower, the church’s worldwide center, is the headquarters for the religious leadership and the church's institutional operations, such as policy making and financing. Each congregation is legally connected to Watchtower as one entity.
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Star Tribune: Jehovah's Witnesses accused of mishandling abuse in Montana
by Tahoe inhttp://www.startribune.com/jehovah-s-witnesses-accused-of-mishandling-abuse-in-montana/493779331/.
helena, mont.
— two women who say they were sexually abused as children have alleged that the jehovah's witnesses failed to report their abuser to authorities in montana and instead punished him internally by expelling him from the congregation until he repented the following year.. a trial begins monday in the tiny city of thompson falls for one of dozens of lawsuits filed nationwide in the last decade over claims of child sexual abuse in jehovah's witness congregations.
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In search of custody hearing advice ...
by dubstepped ini don't have kids, but i recently found that someone with kids that lives in my town is also an ex-jw.
she just happened to post on an apostafest thread on facebook for an event that i attended, saw that we lived in the same place, and i met her for the first time tonight.
pretty cool.. she has a 14 year old boy that is super smart and very articulate.
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The following website has excellent advice on it. Also, the expert, Dan Johnson, will give some free advice on the phone. He's told me that he would do that so mention my name.Expert Custody Consultants 30 Years Leading The Fight Against The Watchtower Society's Child Custody AtrocitiesRead real cases on the website: https://jehovahswitnessesexperts.com/articles-and-resources/- Barbara
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Article: Philadelphia Inquirer - Ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses to protest sex abuse scandals at Pa. convention
by AndersonsInfo inhttp://www2.philly.com/philly/news/jehovahs-witnesses-child-sex-abuse-protest-reading-chessa-manion-20180824.html.
ex-jehovah’s witnesses to protest sex abuse scandals at pa. convention.
by david gambacorta, posted: 2 hours ago .
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http://www2.philly.com/philly/news/jehovahs-witnesses-child-sex-abuse-protest-reading-chessa-manion-20180824.html
Ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses to protest sex abuse scandals at Pa. convention
Chessa Manion insists she's not looking for revenge, or to spark an ugly confrontation, when she heads to Berks County this weekend.
The plan that she and a group of former Jehovah's Witnesses have cobbled together is fairly simple: They'll gather in front of the Reading Santander Arena on Sunday with signs and artwork, and try to catch the eyes of some current followers of the millenarian religion who will be streaming into the building for a convention that's expected to draw thousands from Pennsylvania and Maryland congregations.
For some of the ex-Witnesses, it'll be a chance to share painful experiences that they tried to bury for years — in Manion's case, the rape that she suffered as a 5-year-old at the hands of a teenage Witness in a small Illinois town in 1994. Others hope to encourage active Witnesses to question the organization's leaders, who have responded to a growing number of child sex abuse cases around the world with denials and instructions to destroy records that could prove harmful in litigation.
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HUFFPOST: Pennsylvania Releases Damning Report On Catholic Clergy Sex Abuse Scandal
by AndersonsInfo inhttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pennsylvania-report-catholic-clergy-sex-abuse-scandal_us_5b2d4062e4b00295f15c56db.
pennsylvania releases damning report on catholic clergy sex abuse scandal.
the report identified over 300 catholic priests in pennsylvania who have been accused of sexual abuse.. .
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Video of Attorney General Shapiro's announcement of the release of the Grand Jury Report:
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HUFFPOST: Pennsylvania Releases Damning Report On Catholic Clergy Sex Abuse Scandal
by AndersonsInfo inhttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pennsylvania-report-catholic-clergy-sex-abuse-scandal_us_5b2d4062e4b00295f15c56db.
pennsylvania releases damning report on catholic clergy sex abuse scandal.
the report identified over 300 catholic priests in pennsylvania who have been accused of sexual abuse.. .
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Pennsylvania Releases Damning Report On Catholic Clergy Sex Abuse Scandal
The report identified over 300 Catholic priests in Pennsylvania who have been accused of sexual abuse.Pennsylvania’s attorney general released on Tuesday the long-awaited results of a damning grand jury investigation into how six Roman Catholic dioceses in the state covered up sexual abuse by 301 “predator priests” over the past 70 years.
The 884-page report is the largest, most comprehensive investigation on the church’s sex abuse scandal by a U.S. state, according to Attorney General Josh Shapiro. The grand jury identified over 1,000 victims in the six dioceses examined in the report: Allentown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Scranton. But the jurors suspected the true number of victims could be much higher.
Shapiro said the report, which was delayed for months while individuals named in it raised legal challenges over what portions should be redacted, showed that church leaders in these dioceses knew abuse was occurring but systematically covered it up.
“The pattern was abuse, deny, and coverup,” Shapiro said during a news conference Tuesday.
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IRISH TIMES: What is it like to be a Jehovah’s Witness family living in Ireland?
by AndersonsInfo inhttps://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/what-is-it-like-to-be-a-jehovah-s-witness-family-living-in-ireland-1.3573827.
what is it like to be a jehovah’s witness family living in ireland?.
adherence to biblical strictures provides a solid base in an increasingly secular society.
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- Presently 14 Comments in the Irish Times regarding the article
- Kevin
Religious belief has got to be one of the most fascinating and diverse by-products of human evolution. Thank you, fascinating insight into a fringe cult.
- 18 hours ago
- mediaocrity
@Kevin Fascinating, perhaps, a good thing, decidedly no.
- 5 hours ago
- JamesAlan
The article is somewhat 'soft.', but maybe that's what was asked for. In particular, the Jehovah's Witness practice of shunning family members who leave the church needs to be discussed in any thorough piece on this religion.
- 13 hours ago
- frankwhelan
@JamesAlan Or even people who they have been visiting,if those people then decide they don't agree with them,they are shunned if met in public.
- 11 hours ago
- mediaocrity
@JamesAlan Just another puff piece for a religion in the IT. A religion, like all of them, with a very nasty side.
By the way, minority faiths in Ireland should welcome secularism, i.e. that the State is less inclined to treat a particular religion more favourably, and work towards a separation of churches and state.
Increasing irreligion is not secularism, disbelief is not secularism, however it is the RCC's preferred term to slag off non-believers now that atheist is no longer regarded as an... » more- 5 hours ago
- FlorianMozart
such a terrible article. completely one-sided. what about: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/jehovahs-witnesses-religion-christianity-religious-group-what-is-it-like-a7214966.html
? JW is a dangerous sect. Much like scientology. There is no romanticizing.- 11 hours ago
- ClaudiaK
@FlorianMozart Thank you for the link, just read the article and it confirms what I think of them. It is rather a cult than a religion.
- 10 hours ago
- mediaocrity
@ClaudiaK Difference between a cult and a religion? Scale and time.
Or as someone once said, if the guy who made it all up is still alive it's a cult, if he's dead then it's a religion...- 5 hours ago
- ClaudiaK
That article had a whiff of the author being brainwashed by the Jehovas. If they are happy to live as they live, cudos to them. But I don't want them at my door, telling me that I am doomed if I don't convert! The bible tells us lots of things, for them it was written by God. For me, it is a compendium of very very old stories, written by humans. To not celebrate your children's birthday because of two incidents which happened over 2000 years ago I find simply ridiculous. Another aspect which I... » more
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- Eddie
After a Catholic brainwashing many Irish will be fodder for other religious cults such as the Jehova's Witnesses. It all seems harmless but again a religion dominated by men with ways to divide families through shunning. Homophobia is also rife in this cult despite the claims. All these cults are based on man's quest for meaning and superiority over others. Leave religion alone and respect others.
- 7 hours ago
- mediaocrity
@Eddie There's also money of course. That hall in Citywest didn't hire itself. Wonder how much JWs are expected / forced to tithe?
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- AnChiarogEile
@Eddie "After a Catholic brainwashing many Irish will be fodder for other religious cults such as the Jehova's Witnesses."
Indeed so: their recruits have always tended to come from other Christian denominations rather than being scooped up from off the street. The usual pattern in my experience is people who grow discontented with their present church congregation because it isn't extreme or demanding enough, so are on the look-out for something which straps their lives into a far more rigid... » more- 52 minutes ago
- mediaocrity
You'd have to be a right gobdaw to change your double glazing on the say-so of a door-to-door salesman, never mind change your entire outlook on the world.
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- AnChiarogEile
Let's face it, there are some people in this world - a good many in fact - who hanker instinctively for a totalitarian organisation which manages every aspect of their lives, explains everything for them, lays all manner of onerous obligations upon them and occupies their every waking moment, often treating them abominably for no reason at all and robbing them of their time, energies and money in trying to extend the organisation's domination to the entire human race in a kind of vast... » more
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