https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-20/california-child-sex-assault-lawsuits-new-law.
san diego — matt smyth’s secret was revealed in his senior year of high school with a knock on the front door of his family’s fallbrook, calif., home.. two plainclothes sheriff’s detectives were investigating reports that smyth’s former assistant scoutmaster — the one who’d driven kids to boy scout meetings, chaperoned camp-outs and hosted fishing outings on his bucolic property — had molested several boys.. to the shock of his parents, smyth shared that he’d been a victim, too.
but the bombshell stayed close to home for decades.
Seems the same at the Seventh-day Adventist Churches in California.
'From our own work representing SDA clients, we know that Adventist Risk Management, the official insurance company for the Seventh-day Adventist Church, has handled claims of over 500 child sex abuse victims in the US.'
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-20/california-child-sex-assault-lawsuits-new-law.
san diego — matt smyth’s secret was revealed in his senior year of high school with a knock on the front door of his family’s fallbrook, calif., home.. two plainclothes sheriff’s detectives were investigating reports that smyth’s former assistant scoutmaster — the one who’d driven kids to boy scout meetings, chaperoned camp-outs and hosted fishing outings on his bucolic property — had molested several boys.. to the shock of his parents, smyth shared that he’d been a victim, too.
but the bombshell stayed close to home for decades.
'I am a sister in a congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses in southern California...
In addition to that, I am a rape survivor. I did not scream.'
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/29606/draffenville-elders-intent-sue
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-20/california-child-sex-assault-lawsuits-new-law.
san diego — matt smyth’s secret was revealed in his senior year of high school with a knock on the front door of his family’s fallbrook, calif., home.. two plainclothes sheriff’s detectives were investigating reports that smyth’s former assistant scoutmaster — the one who’d driven kids to boy scout meetings, chaperoned camp-outs and hosted fishing outings on his bucolic property — had molested several boys.. to the shock of his parents, smyth shared that he’d been a victim, too.
but the bombshell stayed close to home for decades.
Romy Maple -
Fortuna woman, ex-Jehovah’s Witness shares story of sexual abuse
'Former Jehovah’s Witness Romy Maple–a survivor of child sexual abuse–embarks on a journey to uncover why her pleas for justice were systematically ignored by top members of the organization.'
https://www.aetv.com/shows/cults-and-extreme-belief/season-1/episode-2
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-20/california-child-sex-assault-lawsuits-new-law.
san diego — matt smyth’s secret was revealed in his senior year of high school with a knock on the front door of his family’s fallbrook, calif., home.. two plainclothes sheriff’s detectives were investigating reports that smyth’s former assistant scoutmaster — the one who’d driven kids to boy scout meetings, chaperoned camp-outs and hosted fishing outings on his bucolic property — had molested several boys.. to the shock of his parents, smyth shared that he’d been a victim, too.
but the bombshell stayed close to home for decades.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-20/california-child-sex-assault-lawsuits-new-law.
san diego — matt smyth’s secret was revealed in his senior year of high school with a knock on the front door of his family’s fallbrook, calif., home.. two plainclothes sheriff’s detectives were investigating reports that smyth’s former assistant scoutmaster — the one who’d driven kids to boy scout meetings, chaperoned camp-outs and hosted fishing outings on his bucolic property — had molested several boys.. to the shock of his parents, smyth shared that he’d been a victim, too.
but the bombshell stayed close to home for decades.
Legal window closes this month for survivors of clergy child sex abuse
https://keyt.com/news/santa-barbara-s-county/2022/12/02/legal-window-closes-this-month-for-survivors-of-clergy-child-sex-abuse/
Pretty quiet regarding Jehovah's Witness child-sex-assault lawsuits in California?
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-20/california-child-sex-assault-lawsuits-new-law.
san diego — matt smyth’s secret was revealed in his senior year of high school with a knock on the front door of his family’s fallbrook, calif., home.. two plainclothes sheriff’s detectives were investigating reports that smyth’s former assistant scoutmaster — the one who’d driven kids to boy scout meetings, chaperoned camp-outs and hosted fishing outings on his bucolic property — had molested several boys.. to the shock of his parents, smyth shared that he’d been a victim, too.
but the bombshell stayed close to home for decades.
Tsunami?
Not likely.
Might be a good time to listen to this.
the seventh day adventists are cousins of the watch tower religion.
i went to their web site at http://www.adventist.org/beliefs/main_stat41.html to see what they say about various topics.
the adventists, like jehovah's witnesses, believe in a new earth, a paradise, etc.
Oct. 5, 2020
The Zalkin Law Firm has filed a lawsuit in the San Bernardino Superior Court against Loma Linda University Medical Center and the Seventh Day Adventist Church supervisory organizations whose employee, a child psychiatrist, sexually abused three minors.
https://www.zalkin.com/news/2020/october/childhood-abuse-survivors-file-suit-against-loma/
Two years later, who does California give $4 million to?
'Loma Linda University Children's Hospital will receive $4 million in funding from the State of California to support a program to provide seamless medical care and mental health services to children in the Inland Empire who have been victims of trauma, such as abuse, neglect, and maltreatment.'
the seventh day adventists are cousins of the watch tower religion.
i went to their web site at http://www.adventist.org/beliefs/main_stat41.html to see what they say about various topics.
the adventists, like jehovah's witnesses, believe in a new earth, a paradise, etc.
'This is also interesting:
This statement was voted during the Spring Meeting of the General Conference Executive Committee on Tuesday, April 1, 1997, in Loma Linda, California.
This proves the 7th Day Adventists actually did see the danger many years ago, and actually did something to handle the prblem properly when anything happened.'
https://www.adventist.org/official-statements/child-sexual-abuse/?searchsite=www.adventist.org&ref=on-site-search&searchterm=child+sex+abuse+cases
''What impressed me is that the SDA Church at least publicly posts a web site policy on Child Abuse for all to read, unlike the WTS. Also, the SDA, like many churches, does a lot of community works, including public hospitals.''
jeff walks through the process.... repressed memory, statue of limitations, etc.. .
http://www.hermanlaw.com/video/player/46739-filing-a-civil-lawsuit .
'In this last episode of our 3-part special series all about civil lawsuits for child sexual abuse, attorney Kathryn Robb and I discuss depositions (what they’re for, who’s present, advice on being deposed), defense tactics and strategies, impeachment of witnesses (casting doubt on plaintiff’s credibility, trauma and memory, dissociation, abuse disclosure), legal abuse, trial preference… Read More »'
'legal concerns seem to be a factor behind the watchtower society reversing its position and allowing vaccinations from the 1950's.'.
"the matter of vaccination is one for the individual that has to face it to decide for himself... and our society cannot afford to be drawn into the affair legally or take the responsibility for the way the case turns out.
" watchtower 1952 dec 15 p.764.
And war broke out in heaven: Miʹcha·el*+ and his angels battled with the dragon, and the dragon and its angels battled 8 but they did not prevail,* nor was a place found for them any longer in heaven. 9 So down the great dragon+ was hurled, the original serpent,+ the one called Devil+ and Satan,+ who is misleading the entire inhabited earth;+
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/b/r1/lp-e/nwt/66/12#study=discover&study%3Ddiscover
