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Criminal trial begins for Lancaster, Penn., Jehovah's Witness Elder accused of molesting three girls.
by Balaamsass2 init appears the perp got the victims disfellowshiped!
the state attorney general has re-opened the botched case.. "the trial for a jehovah’s witness elder accused of molesting three girls in 1999 began in a lancaster county court monday with lawyers giving opening statements to the jury.. norman aviles-garriga, 45, was charged by the pennsylvania attorney general with two counts of aggravated indecent assault and 16 related offenses in connection with assaults alleged by three women who say the abuse happened when they were girls.. aviles-garriga is one of five pennsylvania jehovah's witnesses charged by a statewide grand jury with using their positions within their churches to sexually abuse children.
the attorney general’s office brought charges against the men in october 2022 and february 2023.. .
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Criminal trial begins for Lancaster, Penn., Jehovah's Witness Elder accused of molesting three girls.
by Balaamsass2 init appears the perp got the victims disfellowshiped!
the state attorney general has re-opened the botched case.. "the trial for a jehovah’s witness elder accused of molesting three girls in 1999 began in a lancaster county court monday with lawyers giving opening statements to the jury.. norman aviles-garriga, 45, was charged by the pennsylvania attorney general with two counts of aggravated indecent assault and 16 related offenses in connection with assaults alleged by three women who say the abuse happened when they were girls.. aviles-garriga is one of five pennsylvania jehovah's witnesses charged by a statewide grand jury with using their positions within their churches to sexually abuse children.
the attorney general’s office brought charges against the men in october 2022 and february 2023.. .
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Judge Wright gives foretaste of upcoming PA's 49th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury Report?'He said it was a sign that not much had changed at the church in the years since the abuse began.''Lancaster Jehovah’s Witness elder sentenced to prison for molesting congregant children
- JACK PANYARD | Staff Writer
- 14 hrs ago
Norman Aviles-Garriga, 45, of Lancaster, was among five members of the Jehovah’s Witness church in Pennsylvania indicted by a state grand jury for using their clerical positions to sexually abuse children. He was convicted on charges of aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault and endangering the welfare of children.
Lancaster County PrisonLancaster County Court Judge Jeffery Wright told Norman Aviles-Garriga that if he thinks his sentence is unfair, he should look at it this way: It’s the same amount of time his victims had to wait for justice.
Wright sentenced Aviles-Garriga, a Jehovah’s Witness elder, to 11½ to 25 years in prison on 12 charges of sexual assault against children in families that were hosting him from 1999 to 2003.
Aviles-Garriga, 45, of Lancaster, was among five members of the Jehovah’s Witness church in Pennsylvania indicted by a state grand jury for using their clerical positions to sexually abuse children.
Three girls from the same extended family who Aviles-Garriga lived with accused him of molesting them while establishing himself in the United States from Puerto Rico. When two of the girls told their mother about what happened, she did not do anything about it, and Aviles-Garriga tried to discredit the girls, saying they were demons and delaying their baptisms.
The Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General investigated and pressed charges in 2023 after the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office declined in 2010. A jury convicted Aviles-Garriga on June 5 of all 12 charges in the trial, including aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault and endangering the welfare of children, after a three-day trial before Judge Jeffery Wright.
On Friday, 25 family members and friends of both the victims and Aviles-Garriga watched as Aviles-Garriga was sentenced, with many of them giving testimonies, with the assistance of an interpreter.
Aviles-Garriga's mother, one of his children, friends, family and a sister-in-law testified to Wright on his behalf, saying he was a wonderful family man and church leader, and nothing in his character would indicate he would be capable of the abuse.
Another Jehovah’s Witness elder told the court that the girls were likely lying, and the judge should take that into consideration.
Many of the three victims’ family members testified as well, many saying they love Aviles-Garriga, but he refused to change or acknowledge the damage he did to the girls and the law needs to be honored.
“I have been waiting 24 years for justice, and now the justice is here,” the mother of two of the victims said.
All three girls spoke in court, outlining the damage Aviles-Garriga did in their lives and how he tried to shame and pressure them into silence, destroying their credibility. One spoke about suicide attempts and consistent panic attacks.
Before sentencing, Aviles-Garriga was deemed a sexually violent predator. Sexually violent predators are sex offenders whose lives include factors that make them likely to engage in predatory or violent offenses.
Assistant Attorney General Angela Sperrazza said professional evaluations showed Aviles-Garriga had characteristics that would make him a sexually violent predator, but she did not elaborate in court, and Wright agreed to sign it into the record.
Wright addressed the three abused women, calling them heroes and saying their persistence to seek justice despite the long road they faced put him in awe.
“At last, you and the truth both win,” Wright said.'
He then addressed the people supporting Aviles-Garriga, saying despite all the positive things they had to say about him, they never uttered a word of support for the three women who were vindicated in court or their families. He said it was a sign that not much had changed at the church in the years since the abuse began.'
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The Ever-Changing Watch Tower Doctrines Betray Its Corruption
by Dogpatch inthe ever-changing watch tower doctrines betray its corruption.
by randall watters.
"new light from jehovah's organization!
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The hand written 'Chapman' on the assembly program above at 0:27 may have been the chairman for the afternoon, Percy Chapman.
'I remember the shock at a district assembly in 1959 at Halifax, Nova Scotia where Percy Chapman, then the branch overseer of Canada was to give the main talk. Suddenly who should appear to replace him, but Brother Knorr, the President from New York. Percy Chapman just disappeared from sight. Later we found out that Brother Knorr had removed all responsibilities from Percy but allowed him to remain at Bethel in Toronto as a janitor.'
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5466/greenlees-chitty-some-sources
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The Ever-Changing Watch Tower Doctrines Betray Its Corruption
by Dogpatch inthe ever-changing watch tower doctrines betray its corruption.
by randall watters.
"new light from jehovah's organization!
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With new light on disfellowshipping, it's now OK to listen to Apostate Brother Edward A Dunlap deliver an experience from 1955, before he became apostate.
https://youtu.be/yLyxc3XpD1k?t=1
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A jury acquits Jehovah’s Witness in PA.
by was a new boy intrial of lancaster city jehovah’s witness member accused of molestation begins.
jose antonio serrano.
lancaster county prison.
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Trial of Lancaster city Jehovah’s Witness member accused of molestation begins
Jose Antonio Serrano
Lancaster County PrisonEditor's note: A jury acquitted Serrano on Tuesday. Also, the name of Serrano's daughter has been removed from this article to protect her privacy.
The daughter of a Jehovah’s Witness elder told a Lancaster County Court jury Monday that her father sexually abused her for five years in the 1990s when she was a young child.
The daughter testified that her father, Jose A. Serrano, 70, of the 400 block of Poplar Street in Lancaster, molested her from the time she was 3 years old until she was 8.
LNP | LancasterOnline typically does not identify alleged victims of sexual assault, however the AG's office said Serrano's daughter had agreed to be identified.
The attorney general charged Serrano in 2022 along with three other Jehovah’s Witness elders from other Pennsylvania counties. He is charged with aggravated indecent assault and two related offenses.
In his opening statement, Deputy Attorney General Zach Wynkoop, the lead prosecutor, painted a picture of a child who was abused by her family. Her father would molest her, and her mother, who Wynkoop said knew about the abuse, would not protect her. They homeschooled when she reached third grade, isolating her from other kids.
Wynkoop said the daughter repeatedly told authorities about being molested by her father, calling Lancaster Children and Youth Services to report physical abuse at age 13, and later, as an adult, talking to Lancaster city police.
Serrano’s public defender, Samuel Encarnacion, portrayed the daughter as vengeful, saying she had “waged a war” against her father, trying to incriminate him multiple times over the years.
Serrano attempted to poke holes in the daughter's testimony, saying she did not report any sexual abuse when she called Children and Youth and only took her accusations to police 18 years after the alleged abuse ended. He also said she failed to get a protection from abuse order against her parents in Maryland, where she lives.
In her testimony, the daughter corroborated Wynkoop’s timeline of events and said she remembered Serrano molesting her on five occasions. She said she did not tell Children and Youth about the sexual abuse when she called as a teenager because she wanted to see how seriously her allegations of physical abuse would be taken.
“I didn’t think anyone would believe me,” the daughter testified.
The daughter said she approached police after spending time with a therapist and remembering the abuse from a repressed memory.
Encarnacion said the daughter's story has changed over the years, including new details and allegations she did not cite when she initially talked to police.
Encarnacion showed the daughter was not honest about her age when she went to police and was inconsistent in reporting how many times she was abused.
Judge Thomas Sponaugle is overseeing the trial, which is expected to run through Wednesday.
According to court records and newspaper archives, Serrano pleaded guilty in 1993 to two counts of indecent assault involving two girls, 13 and 15, in Willow Street, in 1992. He was placed on probation for five years and ordered to pay the girls’ medical and counseling costs and was required to attend a sex offenders program.
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Alexis Lorenze is battling a severe vaccine injury, - at 15:12.
Steve sits down with Dr. Suzanne Humphries, M.D. a licensed nephrologist, practicing in Maine and Virginia. Dr. Humphries is co-author of Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History.
Additionally, Dr. Humphries has lectured extensively throughout Scandinavia, the USA and New Zealand on vaccines, holistic health, infant immunity, the role of vitamin C in medicine, infectious diseases, and the human microbiome.
In her groundbreaking book, Dissolving Illusions, Dr. Humphries makes the compelling case that the precipitous decline in lethal infections, once feared in the Western world, is due more to the adoption of safer, healthier societal habits than that of medical interventions.
She makes the case that prior to the 20th century, most of the history of the western world involved famine, poverty and filth, all of which Dr. Humphries believes led to the high infection mortality at the time.
Today, we are told that medical interventions such as vaccines were the cause of improved health and increased lifespans beginning in the modern age, but Humphries convincingly argues the opposite.
Diseases, Vaccines & Forgotten History with Dr. Suzanne Humphries, MD
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Today Dr. Peter McCullough said 'conspiracy theory' (which is in the April 2024 Watchtower) is a propaganda term! 😲
by was a new boy in"misinformation, disinformation, science, this antiscience, uh conspiracy theory, these are propaganda terms.".
'don't use them' he says.
@ 19:33. https://youtu.be/miauulndllq?t=1173.
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Today Dr. Peter McCullough said 'conspiracy theory' (which is in the April 2024 Watchtower) is a propaganda term! 😲
by was a new boy in"misinformation, disinformation, science, this antiscience, uh conspiracy theory, these are propaganda terms.".
'don't use them' he says.
@ 19:33. https://youtu.be/miauulndllq?t=1173.
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