A pity its not on Netflix ,ABC TV ,or SBS TV, I suppose it only had a limited release at certain Theaters then if it is available now on DVD and streamline viewing .
smiddy3
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New JW Full Length Expose' Movie Coming to Cinema Entitled…"APOSTASY!"
by MADMARY innew expose' jw film coming the 27th of july, 2018. .
see link below:.
apostasy:exclusive trailer for jehovah's witness drama being hailed as best british film in years.
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Remember when
by blownaway ini remember when paterson was built.
the so called training facility.
we were told it was to teach elders what their job was after armageddon.
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smiddy3
Kingdom farms ? are their any left ?what happened to the K.F. in Australia ? I`m sure their was one.
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Recommendation`s made by the A.R.C. to Jehovah`s Witnesses ,Institution child Sexual Abuse .
by smiddy3 inone of our case studies examined the responses of the jehovah’s witness organisation to allegations of child sexual abuse.
we also held an institutional review hearing to provide an opportunity for the jehovah’s witness organisation to inform us of its current policies and procedures in relation to child protection and child safe standards, including responding to allegations of child sexual abuse.. as of 31 may 2017, of the 4,029 survivors who told us during private sessions about child sexual abuse in religious institutions, 70 survivors told us about abuse in the jehovah’s witnesses.
of the victims we heard about, 80.0 per cent were female.
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smiddy3
The reason I have posted this is it is on public record for all to see and it should also prove to lurkers and nay sayer`s and deniers that this inquiry was real and not made up lies by disgruntled ex Jehovah`s witnesses or apostates .
As the J.W / Religious Organization has tried to dismiss it as .
And hopefully it will also show our friends and Jehovah`s Witnesses throughout the earth how real this government inquiry was .
Of course Jehovah`s Witnesses were not the only organization that came under this scrutiny ,but we are concerned here and now about Jehovah`s Witnesses .
The case studies involving Jehovah`s Witnesses were case study 29 and case study 59
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Recommendation`s made by the A.R.C. to Jehovah`s Witnesses ,Institution child Sexual Abuse .
by smiddy3 inone of our case studies examined the responses of the jehovah’s witness organisation to allegations of child sexual abuse.
we also held an institutional review hearing to provide an opportunity for the jehovah’s witness organisation to inform us of its current policies and procedures in relation to child protection and child safe standards, including responding to allegations of child sexual abuse.. as of 31 may 2017, of the 4,029 survivors who told us during private sessions about child sexual abuse in religious institutions, 70 survivors told us about abuse in the jehovah’s witnesses.
of the victims we heard about, 80.0 per cent were female.
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On Friday, 11 January 2013 the then Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, Her Excellency Quentin Bryce, appointed six Commissioners for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. To assist the Commissioners, Ms Gail Furness SC was appointed as Senior Counsel Assisting.
The Hon. Justice Peter McClellan AM »
Chair of the Royal Commission and Judge of Appeal in New South Wales
The Hon. Justice Jennifer Coate »
Judge of the Family Court of Australia
Commissioner Bob Atkinson AO APM »
Former Queensland Police Service Commissioner
Commissioner Robert Fitzgerald AM »
Productivity Commissioner
Commissioner Helen Milroy »
Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Commissioner Andrew Murray »
Former Senator for Western Australia
Ms Gail Furness SC »
Senior Counsel Assisting the Royal Commission
Counsel Assisting appointed by the Commonwealth Attorney-General who appeared at a Royal Commission hearing
- Angus Stewart SC
- Jeremy Kirk SC
- Sophie David SC
- Andrew Naylor
- Caroline Spruce
- David Barrow
- David Lloyd
- Hayley Bennett
- Juliet Lucy
- Madeleine Ellicott
- Maria Gerace
- Naomi Sharp
- Peggy Dwyer
- Simeon Beckett
- Stephen Free
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Recommendation`s made by the A.R.C. to Jehovah`s Witnesses ,Institution child Sexual Abuse .
by smiddy3 inone of our case studies examined the responses of the jehovah’s witness organisation to allegations of child sexual abuse.
we also held an institutional review hearing to provide an opportunity for the jehovah’s witness organisation to inform us of its current policies and procedures in relation to child protection and child safe standards, including responding to allegations of child sexual abuse.. as of 31 may 2017, of the 4,029 survivors who told us during private sessions about child sexual abuse in religious institutions, 70 survivors told us about abuse in the jehovah’s witnesses.
of the victims we heard about, 80.0 per cent were female.
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The above was downloaded from the official Government website into Child sexual Abuse that was carried out by the Australian Royal Commission into Child sexual Abuse by Institutions and in this case dealing with the religion of Jehovah`s Witnesses .
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Recommendation`s made by the A.R.C. to Jehovah`s Witnesses ,Institution child Sexual Abuse .
by smiddy3 inone of our case studies examined the responses of the jehovah’s witness organisation to allegations of child sexual abuse.
we also held an institutional review hearing to provide an opportunity for the jehovah’s witness organisation to inform us of its current policies and procedures in relation to child protection and child safe standards, including responding to allegations of child sexual abuse.. as of 31 may 2017, of the 4,029 survivors who told us during private sessions about child sexual abuse in religious institutions, 70 survivors told us about abuse in the jehovah’s witnesses.
of the victims we heard about, 80.0 per cent were female.
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One of our case studies examined the responses of the Jehovah’s Witness organisation to allegations of child sexual abuse. We also held an institutional review hearing to provide an opportunity for the Jehovah’s Witness organisation to inform us of its current policies and procedures in relation to child protection and child safe standards, including responding to allegations of child sexual abuse.
As of 31 May 2017, of the 4,029 survivors who told us during private sessions about child sexual abuse in religious institutions, 70 survivors told us about abuse in the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Of the victims we heard about, 80.0 per cent were female. The average age of victims at the time of first abuse was 8.4 years. Of the 53 survivors who told us about the age of the person who sexually abused them, 44 survivors (83.0 per cent) told us about abuse by an adult and 12 survivors (22.6 per cent) told us about abuse by a child. A small number of survivors told us about sexual abuse by an adult and by a child. The vast majority of survivors who told us about abuse by an adult perpetrator said they were abused by a male adult.
Of the 65 survivors who told us during private sessions about the role of a perpetrator, 26.2 per cent told us about child sexual abuse by family members. This was considered to be within our Terms of Reference when the sexual abuse was reported to and handled by the religious institution. We also heard from survivors about other perpetrators including volunteers (13.8 per cent), lay leaders (9.2 per cent) and other adults who attended the religious institution (9.2 per cent).
As part of our case study, the Jehovah’s Witness organisation provided us with files containing allegations, reports or complaints of child sexual abuse. They provided us with documents relating to at least 1,800 children and over 1,000 alleged perpetrators.
Institutional responses to child sexual abuse in the Jehovah’s Witnesses
Our case study regarding the Jehovah’s Witnesses showed that the organisation dealt with allegations of child sexual abuse in accordance with internal, scripturally based disciplinary policies and procedures. We found that at least until 1998, individuals making complaints of child sexual abuse were required to state their allegations in the presence of the person against whom the allegations were made. The ‘two-witness’ rule applied – that is, wrongdoing could only be established on the basis of testimony from two or more ‘credible’ eyewitnesses to the same incident (or strong circumstantial evidence testified to by at least two witnesses or testimony of two witnesses to the same kind of wrongdoing). Allegations were investigated by elders, all of whom were men and had no relevant training.
We found that in deciding the sanctions to impose and/or the precautions to take in relation to a known or suspected perpetrator of child sexual abuse, the Jehovah’s Witness organisation had inadequate regard for the risk that the person might reoffend. Alleged perpetrators of child sexual abuse who were removed from their congregations as a result of allegations of child sexual abuse were frequently reinstated. We found no evidence of the Jehovah’s Witness organisation reporting allegations of child sexual abuse to police or other civil authorities.
During our case study we heard from survivors of child sexual abuse that they were not provided with adequate information by the Jehovah’s Witness organisation about the investigation of their allegations, felt unsupported by the elders who handled the allegations, and felt that the investigation process was a test of their credibility rather than that of the alleged perpetrator. We also heard that victims of child sexual abuse were told by congregational elders not to discuss the abuse with others, and that if they tried to leave the organisation, they were ‘shunned’ or ostracised from their religious community.
Contributing factors in the Jehovah’s Witnesses
We considered a number of factors that may have contributed to the occurrence of child sexual abuse in the Jehovah’s Witnesses or to inadequate institutional responses to such abuse.
The Jehovah’s Witness organisation addresses child sexual abuse in accordance with scriptural direction, relying on a literal interpretation of the Bible and 1st century principles to set practice, policy and procedure. These include the ‘two-witness’ rule as discussed, as well as the principle of ‘male headship’ (that men hold positions of authority in congregations and headship in the family). Scripturally, only men can make decisions. Other scripture-based policies include the sanctions of reproval (a form of discipline that allows a perpetrator to remain in the congregation), disfellowshipping (exclusion or excommunication as a form of punishment for serious scriptural wrongdoing), and shunning (an instruction to the congregation not to associate with a disfellowshipped person). As long as the Jehovah’s Witness organisation continues to apply these practices in its response to allegations of child sexual abuse, it will remain an organisation that does not respond adequately to child sexual abuse and that fails to protect children.
We recommend that the Jehovah’s Witness organisation abandon its application of the two-witness rule in cases involving complaints of child sexual abuse (Recommendation 16.27), revise its policies so that women are involved in processes relating to investigating and determining allegations of child sexual abuse (Recommendation 16.28), and no longer require its members to shun those who disassociate from the organisation in cases where the reason for disassociation is related to a person being a victim of child sexual abuse (Recommendation 16.29).
We welcome the inclusion in the recently published Child safeguarding policy of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Australia of a requirement to report child sexual abuse to civil authorities in cases where elders consider that a child may still be at risk of harm. The Jehovah’s Witness organisation should also amend all of its policies and procedures relating to child sexual abuse to ensure that this requirement is included.
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A great article! Highly recommended!
by stuckinarut2 inim not sure if anyone has posted this before?
(sorry if so).
http://exitwatchtower.weebly.com/.
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Confusedandangry
He mentions the book "Jehovah`s witnesses in The Divine Purpose" where they supposedly relate their early history and its beginnings with C.T.Russell .
It in itself is a sugar coated version of their history as they re-write their history and re-interpretate previous beliefs held by them
I dont have that book now and am just going by memory
I`m not sure whether this fits in with what he was referring to or not .I`m not sure whether this was in the book or not.
Marley Cole authored a book called "Jehovah`s Witnesses A new World Society" may years ago and he palmed himself off as a non witness and the "Society " quoted him as such .
It came out much later that Marley Cole was a dedicated baptised Jehovah`s Witness when he wrote the book and the J.W.were very much aware of it .
Their deceit was exposed.
Maybe he was alluding to that .
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The fish in the water represents the G.B. and the fish walking away are ex J.W`s "we are not listening to you anymore".
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The biggest news of the year for Mr. and Mrs. Totally ADD
by Still Totally ADD inthis is bigger than christmas and birthdays wrap into one.
thanks to the australian royal commission our youngest son has woke up.
we received a e-mail from him tonight where he apologized to us for shunning us all these years, how bad he felt for doing this.
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"The prodigal son returns" or something like that .You and your wife must be over the moon with joy .
I just want to add my congratulations to all of you for such a great reunion
Cheers
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What is the most troubling or disturbing biblical passage you ever had to rationalise when a Jw?
by stuckinarut2 innow that we have stepped away from the jw faith, how do you feel about the bible itself?.
what about those awkward sections of scripture?
how did you rationalise or justify those sections?.
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Which genocide in the Bible are you talking about Drearyweather for there are many that occurs in the Hebrew/Old testament scriptures that have the sanction and blessing of a so called God of love of humans ,whereas what took place in WW1 and WW2 while not being condoned were committed by imperfect / bad human beings .
You cannot compare them to the Almighty God of Creation surely.
