I am not debating whether they were complicit or not just the original links in ur original post the word complicit doesn't appear. It does appear in the ABC link u provided but not in the original it uses the exhasurbated.
John Davis
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Magistrate says Jehovah's Witnesses are complicit because they failed to report to authorities
by jw news 2017 in"former jehovah's witness jailed for historical sex offences against young sisters... .
sentencing magistrate bernadette boss noted it was "most unfortunate" that once again a church had failed to notify the authorities about an allegation of sexual abuse.. that made the church complicit in the matters and "appears to have exacerbated the effect on the victims of the offence," dr boss said...".
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Magistrate says Jehovah's Witnesses are complicit because they failed to report to authorities
by jw news 2017 in"former jehovah's witness jailed for historical sex offences against young sisters... .
sentencing magistrate bernadette boss noted it was "most unfortunate" that once again a church had failed to notify the authorities about an allegation of sexual abuse.. that made the church complicit in the matters and "appears to have exacerbated the effect on the victims of the offence," dr boss said...".
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John Davis
The original posting says exhasurbated not complicit. Complicit requires action not in action. It appears that the judge used the term exhasterbated not complicit.
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Magistrate says Jehovah's Witnesses are complicit because they failed to report to authorities
by jw news 2017 in"former jehovah's witness jailed for historical sex offences against young sisters... .
sentencing magistrate bernadette boss noted it was "most unfortunate" that once again a church had failed to notify the authorities about an allegation of sexual abuse.. that made the church complicit in the matters and "appears to have exacerbated the effect on the victims of the offence," dr boss said...".
quoted text from the web page :.
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John Davis
The abc reference was not in your original post.
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Magistrate says Jehovah's Witnesses are complicit because they failed to report to authorities
by jw news 2017 in"former jehovah's witness jailed for historical sex offences against young sisters... .
sentencing magistrate bernadette boss noted it was "most unfortunate" that once again a church had failed to notify the authorities about an allegation of sexual abuse.. that made the church complicit in the matters and "appears to have exacerbated the effect on the victims of the offence," dr boss said...".
quoted text from the web page :.
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John Davis
JW News where in the article that the magistrate said that the elders were complicate because they failed to report. They should have but that is not what the article says that the magistrate said.
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"No junk mail". How witnesses ignore these signs!
by stuckinarut2 inas we know, many people have "no junk mail" signs on their home letterboxes.
this clearly means that they do not want unsolicited mail or advertising material.. so how are witnesses getting around this?.
during the campaign to distribute the convention invitations, when they come across a house with "no junk mail", they are just putting the leaflet inside an envelope and hand writing "to the householder" on the front and putting it in the letterbox!.
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John Davis
I never claimed that US law applies everywhere. And I said "at least in the US" I indicated that those laws only apply in the US. But I am sure there are a number of countries with similar laws because that is the way that the posts get money is through stamps. In many countries, Stamps is like currency where if you forge it, it is like you are forging money because the stamps is how government's make money, though most lose money with their postal service.
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Jehovah's Vatican Scandal?
by mrmagic insomeone sent this link of kelso law firm and their blog post on cardinal pell being australia's most hated man.
the implications are very interesting, as this is the 3rd most powerful man in the vatican.
the catholic church is no doubt much larger than jehovah's witnesses, however, the jw's incidence of child sexual abuse is about 4 times higher than the catholic church's child sex abuse (and subsequent coverups).. the main thread tying cardinal pell and the other vatican scandals to jehovah's witnesses is the australian royal commission.
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John Davis
LongHairGal I agree with you that is not a healthy environment and that it is probably worst than that Catholic Church's scandal but when people say that Watchtower is 4X or 18X those are quantities those require statistics and facts to make that kind of statement.
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Jehovah's Vatican Scandal?
by mrmagic insomeone sent this link of kelso law firm and their blog post on cardinal pell being australia's most hated man.
the implications are very interesting, as this is the 3rd most powerful man in the vatican.
the catholic church is no doubt much larger than jehovah's witnesses, however, the jw's incidence of child sexual abuse is about 4 times higher than the catholic church's child sex abuse (and subsequent coverups).. the main thread tying cardinal pell and the other vatican scandals to jehovah's witnesses is the australian royal commission.
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John Davis
I agree with you that we don't know the whole story, but when you say you don't NEED actual statics that is a different statement.
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"No junk mail". How witnesses ignore these signs!
by stuckinarut2 inas we know, many people have "no junk mail" signs on their home letterboxes.
this clearly means that they do not want unsolicited mail or advertising material.. so how are witnesses getting around this?.
during the campaign to distribute the convention invitations, when they come across a house with "no junk mail", they are just putting the leaflet inside an envelope and hand writing "to the householder" on the front and putting it in the letterbox!.
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John Davis
It is actually a crime to put something in the mailbox if it was not put through the Postal System, at least in the US. But US law is weird, an official mailbox is not just anything that mail is put into, a mailbox must be approved by the Post Master General for it to be considered a mailbox.
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"No junk mail". How witnesses ignore these signs!
by stuckinarut2 inas we know, many people have "no junk mail" signs on their home letterboxes.
this clearly means that they do not want unsolicited mail or advertising material.. so how are witnesses getting around this?.
during the campaign to distribute the convention invitations, when they come across a house with "no junk mail", they are just putting the leaflet inside an envelope and hand writing "to the householder" on the front and putting it in the letterbox!.
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John Davis
At least in the US JWs are not considered legally as Solicitors, and even if they were no Solicitors signs aren't enforceable by the law. No Trespassing is a different story, Trespassing is a legally defined action. Just like No Junk Mail is a subjective thing, what is considered junk by one person may not be considered junk by someone else, and technically it is not mail as Mail is defined by something that goes through the postal service.
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Jehovah's Vatican Scandal?
by mrmagic insomeone sent this link of kelso law firm and their blog post on cardinal pell being australia's most hated man.
the implications are very interesting, as this is the 3rd most powerful man in the vatican.
the catholic church is no doubt much larger than jehovah's witnesses, however, the jw's incidence of child sexual abuse is about 4 times higher than the catholic church's child sex abuse (and subsequent coverups).. the main thread tying cardinal pell and the other vatican scandals to jehovah's witnesses is the australian royal commission.
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John Davis
Well LongHairGal glad that statistics and facts don't affect your opinion.