I was thinking of a certain someone as I read their post on H20. I know nothing can heal the scars and there is I asume nothing anyone can really say, especially someone who has never been there.
Perhaps there can be some comfort in these ones who find the strength to come forward and tell what happened. It seems to me, that such crimes are so in the public eye now, that maybe such ones might think twice. Then again, perhaps they don't. I'm not sure.
All I know, is that while society's morals waste away, there remains that one last vision to protect the innocence of children. Even prisoners draw the line there, and perhaps these ones will get a taste of some old fasion prison justice.
I don't know if I can fault the JW's more than others, but I do know we cared more about preserving a squeaky clean image, that since has become very much like the rest. The Society has at least to my knowledge taken a very strong stance against abuses against children these days. I think though, old school thinking produced the results you mentioned above, and you still have alot of congregations run by old school POs who refuse to get with the program.
Perhaps one day.
Path
Edited by - Pathofthorns on 5 August 2000 20:47:22