Thank you Anderson!
I will agree with the Minister of Justice saying, "this is exactly the problem: they spend money on lawsuits and expensive ads instead of improving help for victims #fail"."
Their response should be: "We have made some errors and failures in protecting children with these specific matters; HOWEVER! ..... We will initiate all of the Minister of Justice's observations and We further propose the following to go beyond...(you get the idea).
The letter is 1857 words of rambling incoherent ideas that few newspaper readers will read in its entirety. It is obvious that this open letter was not written by a professional council or someone with more than middle school education, probably written by, i.e. the Branch Overseer.
This paragraph I thought was comically interesting, just beware "you get what you pay for" because JW's pastoral work is free. I'm also going to call "Bull Shxxt" on elders using "experienced women in the congregation" for anything other than cleaning. Hell, they only used me to mow the lawn or buy supplies to clean. Lol!
It is insulting to anyone who actively provides assistance to the victims and their relatives that minister Dekker falsely claims that victims lack 'low-threshold emotional and practical support'. The opposite is true. The elders of our congregations seek to take a loving and active interest in the spiritual and emotional needs of those in the congregation. One of the ways elders doing this is through pastoral support, which is always provided free of charge. Pastoral visits are one integral and regular part of the religious activity of the elders. They make granting pastoral support a priority, especially in cases of child sexual abuse. If it's a female As a victim, the elders may be assisted by experienced women in the congregation.
