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  UK- JW MINISTERIAL SERVANT SERIAL RAPIST

  by DannyHaszard in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  man escapes jail for sex attacksbbc news - 1 hour, 42 minutes agoa jehovah's witnesss gets a community sentence for a series of sex assaults on children and adults.man escapes jail for sex attacks porter was put on the sex offenders registera jehovah's witness has escaped a jail term after admitting a series of sexual assaults on children and adults in clevedon.

  michael porter, an elder in the religion, pleaded guilty to 24 counts of indecent assault and gross indecency on 13 victims aged 18 months and older.

  among the individuals were others involved in the faith.

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  Today Sept 21 2007 Jehovah’s Witness paedophile case sentence to be reviewed
  National Secular Society, UK - 4 hours ago
  A Jehovah’s Witness elder who abused children, and was given a community rehabilitation order, is to have his sentence reviewed. There was a public outcry ...
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  How many JWs?

  by cultswatter in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know the wts wants to hit 7 million jw publishers and i think that it will go over 7 million but how much beyond 7 million will it go?

  we see a slow down in the preaching work and the innoculating effect that the internet has.

  the jw virus is not as potent as it used to be.

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  http://www.topix.net/forum/who/jehovahs-witnesses/TD6MUMPLN9MTV9TEP/p5#lastPost Danny Haszard topix thread on Jehovah's Witnesses lose membership comment
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  How many JWs?

  by cultswatter in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know the wts wants to hit 7 million jw publishers and i think that it will go over 7 million but how much beyond 7 million will it go?

  we see a slow down in the preaching work and the innoculating effect that the internet has.

  the jw virus is not as potent as it used to be.

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  Jehovah's Witnesses are LOSING members and are on the decline. JAPAN LOSES OVER 600 CONGREGATIONS
  
  

  Japan since the 1970''s has had amazing publisher increases! Every year the number of Jehovah's Witnesses shot up by many thousands. This peaked in 1998, since then the number of Witnesses and Congregations has continued to drop!
  
  1998- Pubs 222,912 Congs. 3,802 {6 Years later}
  2004- Pubs 217,555 {-5,357 Pubs} Congs 3,164 {-638 Congs}
  
  Over 6 years what happened to the 5,357 publishers and 638 Congregations!! This is a mystery like the Burmuda triangle.

  
  
  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/11/141694/1.ashx MORE insight here
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  WT BLOOD GUILT EXPOSED TO THE WORLD

  by DannyHaszard in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  parents don't get a moral pass.

  toronto star, canada - 3. even the discovery that their parents were devout jehovah's witnesses and is there any other kind of watchtower congregant?

  raised only faint alarm ... rosie [email protected] the author.

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  Believers 'put their kids life in danger' The South African Star (subscription), South Africa - 4 hours ago But they changed their minds and withdrew this "conditional authority". "I am now concerned that the parents might withdraw their consent to the life-saving ...

  Believers 'put their kids life in danger' Cape Argus (subscription), South Africa - 4 hours ago But they changed their minds and withdrew this "conditional authority". "I am now concerned that the parents might withdraw their consent to the life-saving ...

  Believers 'put their kids life in danger' Post (subscription), South Africa - 8 hours ago But they changed their minds and withdrew this "conditional authority". "I am now concerned that the parents might withdraw their consent to the life-saving ...

  Believers 'put their kids life in danger' Independent Online, South Africa - 8 hours ago But they changed their minds and withdrew this "conditional authority". "I am now concerned that the parents might withdraw their consent to the life-saving ...

  Believers 'put their kids life in danger' Daily News (subscription), South Africa - 8 hours ago But they changed their minds and withdrew this "conditional authority". "I am now concerned that the parents might withdraw their consent to the life-saving ...
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  CANADA-another ELDER PEDO 9-18-07

  by DannyHaszard in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  there are so many jehovah' s witnesses elder pedophile cases,that i now must collate by case dates this is case 9-18-07 http://www.newstalk980.com/index.php?p=ntnews&action=view_story&id=9906 just up!

  prominently placed on the jehovah's witnesses news wire church elder pleads guilty in sex court case.

  980 cjme news talk radio, canada -7 hours ago.

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  Willick's "perspective was that the sexual relationship was 'very consensual' and that the (teen) was a very willing participant. In fact he went so far as to suggest that the (teen) was so 'infatuated' with him that he feared that terminating the relationship would spark reprisals from (her)," according to court records. Willick reported that the teen was "self abusing" and had run away from home, and he was asked to assist the teen in his capacity as a church elder, the records state.
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  CANADA-another ELDER PEDO 9-18-07

  by DannyHaszard in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  there are so many jehovah' s witnesses elder pedophile cases,that i now must collate by case dates this is case 9-18-07 http://www.newstalk980.com/index.php?p=ntnews&action=view_story&id=9906 just up!

  prominently placed on the jehovah's witnesses news wire church elder pleads guilty in sex court case.

  980 cjme news talk radio, canada -7 hours ago.

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  MORE DETAILS

  Point2 CEO steps down amid sexual exploitation charges
  Inman.com (subscription), CA - 44 minutes ago
  "They both belonged to the Jehovah's Witness church and attended the same 'book studies,' " court records state. Willick's "perspective was that the sexual ... Point2 CEO steps down amid sexual exploitation charges

  Company co-founder pleads guilty, awaits sentencing

  Thursday, September 20, 2007
  
  By Glenn Roberts Jr.
  Inman News

  Wendell Willick, co-founder and CEO for real estate marketing and technology provider Point2 Technologies, resigned his position last week and this week entered a guilty plea for sexual exploitation of a teen from January 1996 to November 1999 while serving as a church elder in the teen's congregation, according to news reports and court records.

  Willick is scheduled to be sentenced at 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 5 in Queen's Bench Court in Saskatoon, Canada. He faces a maximum sentence of five years, according to Kristen Crowell, a spokeswoman for Saskatchewan Law Courts.

  Roger Noujeim, a spokesman for Point2, said today that the personal legal charges against Willick are "completely unrelated to the business of Point2" and that Willick's responsibilities have been assumed by existing company executives.

  "(Willick) was hands off, leaving the leadership of the business divisions to the business-division leaders, mainly Brendan (King) for the real estate business, and, if required, Chester Hagen for the heavy-equipment business."

  While the Point2 Web site had listed company president Barry Willick, Wendell's brother, as president and CEO, King said that was a typo and that Barry Willick is president and chief technology officer but that a new CEO has not been announced. Company managers in the real estate and heavy equipment divisions are in charge of business decisions for their divisions, he said. "The Point2 real estate business has always been envisioned and moved and driven by the existing team."

  Point2's real estate division operates the Point2 National Listing Service, which allows real estate professionals to form individual marketing agreements to display property information on multiple real estate Web sites and to decide which third-party Web sites to select in marketing properties. The system has about 150,312 members and includes members in 85 countries, mostly the United States and Canada, with about 100,300 unique visitors per day according to company statistics.

  When the company launched in 1996 it targeted heavy-equipment dealers, and launched real estate marketing services in January 2003. The company has reported 130 clients in the heavy-equipment industry that together represent annual revenues of about $100 million in U.S. dollars. Point2, which employs a staff of 100, has a headquarters in Saskatoon and also has offices in Vancouver, Canada.

  Willick, who is married and has three children, was charged with engaging in a sexual relationship with a teen who was a member of his congregation beginning when the teen was 14 and ending when she was 17, according to court records. "They both belonged to the Jehovah's Witness church and attended the same 'book studies,' " court records state.

  Willick's "perspective was that the sexual relationship was 'very consensual' and that the (teen) was a very willing participant. In fact he went so far as to suggest that the (teen) was so 'infatuated' with him that he feared that terminating the relationship would spark reprisals from (her)," according to court records. Willick reported that the teen was "self abusing" and had run away from home, and he was asked to assist the teen in his capacity as a church elder, the records state.

  The Saskatoon Star Phoenix newspaper reported that the allegations about Willick were first reported to police in 2004, and that Willick had changed his plea in the case to guilty after court Justice Martin Popescul "rejected his application earlier this week to have the charge stayed." The newspaper also reported that Willick remains free pending sentencing but was ordered to turn over his passport.

  Send tips or a Letter to the Editor to [email protected], or call (510) 658-9252, ext. 137
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  WT BLOOD GUILT EXPOSED TO THE WORLD

  by DannyHaszard in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  parents don't get a moral pass.

  toronto star, canada - 3. even the discovery that their parents were devout jehovah's witnesses and is there any other kind of watchtower congregant?

  raised only faint alarm ... rosie [email protected] the author.

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  Believers 'put their kids life in danger'
  Daily News (subscription), South Africa - 20 minutes ago Sept 20 2007
  ... order allowing them to give a critically ill two-year-old girl a blood transfusion in the face of staunch opposition from her Jehovah's Witness parents. ...

  Believers 'put their kids life in danger'

  20 September 2007, 15:16 Lawyers acting for a Durban hospital and paediatric surgeon made a mercy dash to the High Court this week, securing a court order allowing them to give a critically ill two-year-old girl a blood transfusion in the face of staunch opposition from her Jehovah's Witness parents.
  
  In granting the order giving Parklands Hospital and surgeon Abdool Shaik authority to do whatever is necessary over the next seven days to save the little girl's life, Durban High Court Judge Herbert Msimang said the court, as the upper guardian of all children, had to act in their best interests.
  
  The parents, Thabani and Simangele Mabanga, who were supported in court by members of their church, had argued earlier that God was the ultimate guardian, and that according to their religious beliefs they would not give consent for a transfusion.
  
  Their daughter was admitted to hospital at the end of August suffering from pneumonia. She was diagnosed with a massive sub-hepatic abscess in her abdominal cavity and was referred to Shaik for surgery.
  
  In his affidavit before the judge, Shaik said she was critically ill - "in the early stages of cardiac arrest" - and in urgent need of abdominal surgery and a blood transfusion to enable the surgery to be performed.
  
  Because of the nature of the surgery, she would lose a considerable amount of blood.
  
  "This will be compensated by the giving of a blood transfusion prior to and possibly after surgery. It is my opinion, and the opinion of the anaesthetist, that in the absence of this, the child is unlikely to survive surgery."
  
  This had been explained to the parents, but they had declined to authorise the blood transfusions "as it is contrary to the tenets of their faith".
  
  On Monday the parents had indicated that if emergency surgery was required, and all efforts to avoid a blood transfusion had failed, and Shaik regarded it as vital to save her life, then the transfusion could be done.
  
  But they changed their minds and withdrew this "conditional authority".
  
  "I am now concerned that the parents might withdraw their consent to the life-saving surgery as well," Shaik said.
  
  The parents suggested during Tuesday's court hearing that the doctor should consider using a synthesised protein product that reportedly helps to oxygenate the blood.
  
  But they only handed in pamphlets on the product and had no medical evidence to back them up. It was also suggested that the product had not been registered for use on small children in South Africa.
  
  Advocates acting for the hospital and the doctor said they respected the parents' right to their religious beliefs but that that had to be weighed against the constitutional right to life. They referred to a similar case in Johannesburg in 2003 in which the court had granted a similar order.
  
  Approached by The Mercury on Wednesday, Gillian Williams, of MacRobert, the firm representing the doctor, said the little girl was being operated on on Wednesday and would be transfused during and, if necessary, after the surgery. http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=521 online feedback page http://www.topix.net/forum/who/jehovahs-witnesses/T1K5O105FMC4SKROQ please support this thread bookmark visit often
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  Lesbian Teen / JW Parents NY Times

  by DannyHaszard in

  1. social
  2. family

  ?my parents had this big argument over whose fault it was, why i chose to be this way.

  ?new york times - sep 19 6:15 pmzy-tasia gaines.

  was born (1990) and raised in brownsville, brooklyn, and my mom raised me to be open to everything: to all types of sexualities.

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• ?My Parents Had This Big Argument Over Whose Fault It Was, Why I Chose to Be This Way.?
• New York Times - Sep 19 6:15 PM ZY-TASIA GAINES.
WAS born (1990) and raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn, and my mom raised me to be open to everything: to all types of sexualities. But I guess she didn’t expect it would come out in me. She’s like, “Be nice to everybody, but as long as you’re not a lesbian, that’s cool.” So when she found out I was a lesbian, it was really difficult, and she didn’t accept it at first. She still sort of doesn’t, but she deals with it. Mostly, people in Manhattan are really open to it. I go to a center on 13th Street called the LGBT Center where they have lots of programs and activities. I’m in a film class, and we’re making films about different experiences we have being lesbian. Mine is about how my girlfriend’s parents are homophobic — really, really homophobic. We’ve been together about a year. As the relationship got stronger and stronger, the more protective her parents got, the more they tried to pull her away. In July, they sent her to live with her uncle in Chicago. She tries to call me about twice a week to check up on things, but I haven’t seen her since. I live in Far Rockaway, Queens, and my school is in Jamaica. When I came out in my school, in 10th grade, everybody was pushing me away. When I came out, I was basically established in the school. I knew everybody. So I had to explain to them, I’m still the same person I was before. I just choose to be with another woman instead of a man. There was a girl at my high school, and she would ask me really silly questions, like, “Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Aniston”? I’d say, “Angelina Jolie,” and she’d say, “See, only a gay person would say that.” And she goes, “Red ice cream or grape ice cream?” I’m like, “Red ice cream.” She says, “See, you’re a lesbian.” My mom’s the type of person, she calls everyone in the family and says, “Guess what my daughter just told me!” So then my grandmother called me, and my aunt, too. Then my father called. I don’t live with my father because my parents separated when I was a baby, but we always keep in contact. He goes: “I have gay sisters. Do you think this is genetic?” And my parents had this big argument over whose fault it was, why I chose to be this way. My father, he still thinks it’s a phase. He’s like: “I think you’re gonna have a boyfriend later on. I’m not worried about it.” But my grandmother’s cool with it. She says, “As long as you’re not doing pornos and doing anything crazy, getting tattoos on your forehead, I don’t care who you go out with.” My mom is just like, “Well, I wanted grandkids, and I wanted you to marry a boy,” and every now and then, she throws in: “I met this really nice guy on the train. Are you sure you don’t want to meet him?” And I’m like: “No, Mom. I have a girlfriend.” My family was brought up as Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t believe in heaven or hell. They believe in everlasting life, that everybody’s going to die and then God’s going to bring back all the people who did right and they’ll live on this paradise earth. And I’m not baptized, so my family’s like: “See, this is what happens when you don’t get baptized. This is what happens when you sit around and play video games instead of coming to church.” And I say, “This has nothing to do with anything.” But the way my family was brought up, basically every little sin you commit is another strike against you being able to come back for everlasting life. They’re like: “Do you know you just added a big strike to yourself? Now you have to be extra good so he’ll think about bringing you back.” A lot of my friends stopped talking to me, and a lot of them still don’t talk to me. My girlfriend in Chicago, I’m her first girlfriend. So when we came out in school, as a couple, everybody said: “See what you did to her? Now you’re going to bring two people down to hell.” I’m like, “O.K.” And her parents really made me feel bad. They were like: “You’re ruining our family. She was fine before she met you.” And I said to myself, well, maybe I shouldn’t be with girls. Maybe I’m just going to ruin everyone’s life. Maybe I should just be with a boy and make everyone happy. Interviewed by GREGORY BEYER
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