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  Latest JW Child Abuse Policy?

  by DATA-DOG in

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  i was told that a letter was recently read at the meetings that addressed “jehovah’s witnesses’” views of child abuse.

  ( let me guess, they abhor it..) .

  a relative informed me of this announcement as if it negates our discussions on the org’s mishandling of thousands of cases of abuse.

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  freddo

  The Roman Catholics have leapfrogged the JW's - note this from the National Catholic Safeguarding Commission. (Bold and italics added by me.)
  

  "Statement on the obligation to report suspected sexual abuse to civil authorities:

  Following recent press coverage the following statement was issued by Cardinal O’Malley From Vatican Radio – 15 February 2016 Statement from the President of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors Cardinal Seán O’Malley, OFM Cap., president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, together with all the Commission Members, issued today the following statement on the obligation to report suspected sexual abuse to civil authorities:

  “As Pope Francis has so clearly stated: ‘The crimes and sins of the sexual abuse of children must not be kept secret for any longer. I pledge the zealous vigilance of the Church to protect children and the promise of accountability for all’. We, the President and the Members of the Commission, wish to affirm that our obligations under civil law must certainly be followed, but even beyond these civil requirements, we all have a moral and ethical responsibility to report suspected abuse to the civil authorities who are charged with protecting our society”.

  Cardinal O’Malley’s statement continued, “In the United States, our Bishops’ Charter clearly states the obligation that all dioceses/eparchies and personnel report suspected abuse to the public authorities.

  Every year at our November meeting, at a training session for new bishops, this obligation is reaffirmed, and every other February the Conference runs a second training program for new bishops which also clearly and explicitly includes this obligation. As the Holy Father’s advisory commission for the protection of minors, we recently shared with Pope Francis an overview of the Commission’s extensive education efforts in local Churches over the past two years and reiterated the Members’ willingness to provide this material at courses offered in Rome, including to the annual training program for new bishops and to the offices of the Roman Curia for their use in their own child protection efforts”.
  
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  How many people have been woken up by the A.R.C??

  by karter in

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  i know of 1 that watched the video and never went back.. i think for some it was a the sum of the total or the "last straw" if you like.. karter..

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  freddo

  Me. It was the final nail in the coffin.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses Scripturally Based Position on Child Protection

  by humblepotato in

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  news room > legal developments > legal resources.

  jehovah's witnesses scripturally based position on child protection.

  i am having trouble understanding paragraph 5. it says: .

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  freddo

  This April 2018 document is on jborg and its existence highlighted at service meetings in an announcement.

  It is a lame reaction to pressure IMHO.

  That bit about reporting if a child is still in danger is doublespeak. The faceless branch operative will discuss/persuade with the two drone elders that have phoned them whether the child is still in danger and in my experience try to parry elders who want to report.

  I had a case of neglect where I wanted to report. I dutifully spoke to the branch with another elder. The branch drone did his best to dissuade us from going to the authorities and said it would be better if a family member outside the immediate family circle reported.

  I said there was no chance of that happening because dopey jw granny was more worried the child would be taken into care from her thick (physically) abusive son and D-i-L.

  After the phone call the other elder said we should leave it in Jehovah's hands. I just privately went to child protection services who respected my confidentiality and sent social workers in to assess.

  Unfortunately there are not many elders who are waking up and going rogue on WT to do what is best for the kids.

  GOOGLE the Roman Catholic child protection policy (UK anyway)and see how this once derided religion has leap frogged JW's in this area. They categorically state that they ALWAYS report.
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  GB member in The Netherlands for contact with State secretary of Justice

  by Gorbatchov in

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  dutch newspapers report that a gb member was in the netherlands last week for contact with the state secretary of justice because of the abuse cases.

  (276 reported now).. no details were revealed.. g..

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  freddo

  Ramping up everywhere - glad it's not just the English-speaking world that this is getting exposed.

  Gotta linkie or two Gorby?
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  WT and child protection

  by Phoebe in

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  my friend has just returned from mid week meeting and emailed me to say 'this was released at meeting tonight' and sent me a 3 page document entitled 'jehovah's witness scripturally based position on child protection'.

  has anyone else had this.

  i'm in the uk.

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  freddo

  Well Steve 2 you keep saying its not new. It is.

  When you print it out it has 4/18 on it. Look next to the pic when you download it. It says April 2018.

  It was first put on the site 1st May ...
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  GDPR: help for PIMOs

  by Fay Dehr in

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  we urgently need to offer "resistance strategy" help to pimos who are likely to be harassed by elders seeking their consent for wtbt$ to leech their data.

  what questions could pimos ask elders, that elders would be unable to answer?

  (thus buying time, because elder would need to "check with branch").

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  freddo

  Oh Isambard, just stand your ground and say no.
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  Informing of judicial decisions - how is it accomplished in 2018?

  by gone for good in

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  how do jws (rank and file) know when to commence shunning the victim of an internal judicial proceeding ?

  what direction does the elders manual give to start the congregations participation in shunning?

  when did you most recently see this process initiated in a hall you attend?.

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  freddo

  Round my way more are dying off and more are being DF'd.

  In the last 2/3 years I can think of 6 over 70's who have snuffed it and 3 DF'd (all separate offences as in not two or three at once) in a cong that was about 75/80 publishers and is now about 70. A couple of separate reproofs announced too.

  The announcements were as per Morpheus's post.

  I have also heard and had verified that in a nearby circuit the last 3 years an HLC member got DF'd and a a circuit overseer publicly reproved just after he changed circuits.
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  WT and child protection

  by Phoebe in

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  my friend has just returned from mid week meeting and emailed me to say 'this was released at meeting tonight' and sent me a 3 page document entitled 'jehovah's witness scripturally based position on child protection'.

  has anyone else had this.

  i'm in the uk.

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  freddo

  It says 1st May 2018 on the website ...
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  What does Two witness mean for child abuse?

  by Canadian Sunshine in

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  i am not a jw.

  my mother in law is.

  my husband is not a jw, but he did attend with her through his child years and teen years but stopped once he was 15. his mother never made him or his siblings attend if they did not want to.i am trying to understand this organization to understand my mother in law better.

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  freddo

  Welcome Canadian Sunshine.

  Your M-i-L if typical will WANT to believe "the organisation" (AKA the Governing Body) is God's channel and trying its best as imperfect men to do what is right.

  As each court case hits their dollars and TV documentary/news item hits their image and especially since the Australian Royal Commission case study 29 into JW's - the organisation has - dragging its heels and using its considerable legal and financial clout - fought a protracted rearguard action against doing anything it doesn't want to.

  IMAGE and MONEY is everything to these bozos who have entrapped the gullible and invested into believing their every false promise of "paradise soon" or somesuch for over 100 years.

  Only this week they have put up LOOK AT US AND HOW GOOD WE ARE child protection documents that I believe are only the result of hard work by abuse victims, ex jw's and the "worldly" and "satanic" courts of decent democracies. The problem is that by sleight of hand and oral communication they will do or not do exactly what they want to using their enforcing puppet elders in the congregations.

  They are not a quirky bunch on the edge of mainstream christianity, they are a manipulative money grabbing nest feathering bunch of stuffed fat charlatans.

  And breathe ...
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  WT and child protection

  by Phoebe in

  1. jw
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  my friend has just returned from mid week meeting and emailed me to say 'this was released at meeting tonight' and sent me a 3 page document entitled 'jehovah's witness scripturally based position on child protection'.

  has anyone else had this.

  i'm in the uk.

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  freddo

  It's up on jborg.

  Type Jehovah's Witness Scripturally Based Position on Child Protection into the jwborg search box and you will get it offered for download.

  Phoebe - was it handed out? read out loud? announced as being available on jwborg?