source:http://home.bt.com/news/uk-news/campaigners-issues-jehovahs-witnesses-abuse-warning-11364008972682.
victims of child abuse within the jehovah's witnesses may never see the perpetrators brought to justice unless the government closes a loophole allowing criminals to evade justice, campaigners have warned.. the government has been asked to introduce mandatory reporting to police whenever an allegation of child sex abuse is made within the faith group.. currently, the so-called "two-witness rule" means jehovah's witnesses deal with allegations of "sins" internally and only investigate themselves if the claim is corroborated by a second testimony - something lawyers say is unlikely given that many victims are abused on their own, in private.. concern over the number of "hidden" victims has prompted campaigners to hand a letter to downing street calling on the government to take action.. victim nick french, 43, who was abused by his stepfather gary moscrop from the ages of seven to 13, said introducing mandatory reporting would reduce the risk of paedophiles offending.. the salesman, originally from glasgow but who was raised in brighton, claimed: "when there are institutions that have rules that protect paedophiles, then something really needs to be done about that.. "when it's one word against another, they can get away with it.
certainly in my case, it just allowed him (my abuser) to become worse and worse in his criminal activities.. "what a faith group like the jehovah's witnesses would say about child abuse is they still view it as a sin, rather than a crime.. "in this day and age, as soon as a crime is reported it needs to go to the people who are qualified to deal with such a crime.
I don't recall this 'landmark case' being discussed here:
Jehovah's Witness ordered to pay more than £700k to child sex abuse victim in UK first
£730k = US$ 1.1 million
These cases are quietly going through the courts. $1 million here, $1 million there... and it all starts to add up.
I noted in WT's submission to the Charity Commission they identified litigation as the first of their main risks.
the prime minister of england made the above statement yesterday regarding any schools that influence youths in a negative manner.. he went on to say that if youths are influenced in a negative manner regarding religious teachings that promote judgement of others (including same sex relationships, etc ) or that look down on other peoples free choice, the government would take action.. i cant find a newspaper article sorry...i just heard it on the radio news.... very interesting though...it may have a bearing on how those who learn ttatt are treated by the organization??
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in the aftermath of this year's annual meeting and the recent tremors of cash shortfalls within the organization, i began thinking "what could they do next to bring in more $$$.".
many here have speculated that we're seeing incremental moves toward "tithing" (of course they would never call it that).
a recent thread (can't find it right now) highlighted that they recently raised the "suggested per publisher donation" at the circuit assembly significantly (tripled it?)..
was just doing a little research and stumbled across this archive of recorded public talks by co's, do's and governing body members from 1979 up to 2013. a fascinating resource for those who would like to research the doctrinal changes and possible flip flops over the last 30 years... http://printcentralandsigns.com/jwtalks/covisits/docovisits.html.
You can hear the original recording of Samuel Herd's classic talk "The Value of Our Theocratic Sisters"
The 'fun' really starts at 21:00 ;)
so i called a few jwdubs that still talk to me, not to try to convince them of anything or wake them up but to try to get a feedback on how they took the big meeting change and other announcements.
generally speaking, all the ones i talked to were not even fazed by the changes.
many of them still didnt even realize the meeting format had changed and thought the layoffs were a normal thing that happens all the time.
It should be fairly easy then for WT to decree that everyone start to meet in each others' homes and sell off all the Kingdom Halls.
the october 2015 jw broadcast, hosted by gerrit losch is quite positive actually.a lot of focus on "field service" needs to be balanced with other good works - supporting those in need around you - either in the congregation (witnesses) or in your classroom or neighbors (non-witnesses).
visiting and encouraging the sick and elderly is mentioned.
jesus parable of the merciful samaritan is highlighted.
was just out shopping and came across two middle aged female witnesses with their magazine trolley..
i approached them and they were all glee and smiles and ready to hand me a couple of magazines.
one moment ladies i have just a couple of questions..
Good reverse witness. Good 'script' for others to use too.
BTW the Royal Commission uncovered 1,006 paedophile perpetrators, but in reality there were at least 1,857 victims/cases.
seems like a nice website.... http://www.webwiki.com/jw.org.
...it's got some good reviews ;).
interesting that jw.org appears to be hosted by amazon web services and based in amsterdam..
seems like a nice website.... http://www.webwiki.com/jw.org.
...it's got some good reviews ;).
interesting that jw.org appears to be hosted by amazon web services and based in amsterdam..
It is using Amazon's Cloud Services:
Amazon.com, Inc.
Amazon Web Services, Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2
1200 12th Avenue South
Seattle
98144
USA
via:
Akamai International, BV
They have a premium streaming service too. If you stream a video and stop it part way through, you can continue playing it at any time, even days later. It maintains the connection.
That doesn't happen on YouTube for example. After some number of minutes they drop your connection and you have to refresh the page to remake the connection to continue streaming.
seems like a nice website.... http://www.webwiki.com/jw.org.
...it's got some good reviews ;).
interesting that jw.org appears to be hosted by amazon web services and based in amsterdam..
Seems like a nice website...
...it's got some good reviews ;)
Interesting that JW.ORG appears to be hosted by Amazon Web Services and based in Amsterdam.
