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  ALBUQUERQUE | Child Sexual Abuse Case Filed Against Former Jehovah's Witness Elder Michael Brunner

  by jwleaks in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  child sexual abuse case filed against former jehovah's witness elder michael brunner.

  an albuquerque woman filed a lawsuit claiming a church leader sexually abused her as a child.. monica jaramillo said michael brunner, an elder at the jehovah's witness church in los lunas, sexually abused her when she was just 8 years old.. jaramillo, now 35, filed a lawsuit claiming other elders of the church knew about the incident but chose to do nothing.. the complaint also alleges jaramillo's mother was raped by brunner.. jehovah's witnesses in los lunas told kob eyewitness news 4 that brunner left the congregation years ago.. .

  video news interview: http://www.kob.com/article/stories/s3130582.shtml?cat=500.

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  New Mexico case documents:

  https://caselookup.nmcourts.gov/caselookup/app

  D-1314 CV 201300948

  Thank you JWLeaks for the news
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  ALBUQUERQUE | Child Sexual Abuse Case Filed Against Former Jehovah's Witness Elder Michael Brunner

  by jwleaks in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  child sexual abuse case filed against former jehovah's witness elder michael brunner.

  an albuquerque woman filed a lawsuit claiming a church leader sexually abused her as a child.. monica jaramillo said michael brunner, an elder at the jehovah's witness church in los lunas, sexually abused her when she was just 8 years old.. jaramillo, now 35, filed a lawsuit claiming other elders of the church knew about the incident but chose to do nothing.. the complaint also alleges jaramillo's mother was raped by brunner.. jehovah's witnesses in los lunas told kob eyewitness news 4 that brunner left the congregation years ago.. .

  video news interview: http://www.kob.com/article/stories/s3130582.shtml?cat=500.

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  Here is another news stations report. Which includes an interview with Zalkin:

  http://www.koat.com/news/new-mexico/albuquerque/man-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-daughter-raping-mother/-/9153728/21482170/-/11n3a4j/-/index.html
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  ALBUQUERQUE | Child Sexual Abuse Case Filed Against Former Jehovah's Witness Elder Michael Brunner

  by jwleaks in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  child sexual abuse case filed against former jehovah's witness elder michael brunner.

  an albuquerque woman filed a lawsuit claiming a church leader sexually abused her as a child.. monica jaramillo said michael brunner, an elder at the jehovah's witness church in los lunas, sexually abused her when she was just 8 years old.. jaramillo, now 35, filed a lawsuit claiming other elders of the church knew about the incident but chose to do nothing.. the complaint also alleges jaramillo's mother was raped by brunner.. jehovah's witnesses in los lunas told kob eyewitness news 4 that brunner left the congregation years ago.. .

  video news interview: http://www.kob.com/article/stories/s3130582.shtml?cat=500.

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  Thanks for listing this, because Los Lunas is just on the other side of our mountain about 70 miles away. We don't know this Michael Brunner personally , but we do know some of the Brunner family.

  WOW
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  So What Do You Think: Are JWs The WORST Religion One Could Be In?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  be realistic..

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  If not the worst, then definitely in the top 3. I don't know of any other religion that is causing so much world wide damage to families over a shunning policy.

  outlaw: Good ones
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  YOU'VE GOT TO LAUGH!!

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  "all of our teachings are based on the bible, not on the writings of some religious leader in the united states.

  "1 thessalonians 2:13. http://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/not-a-sect/.

  all of the teachings (i counted 8) which have been reversed in the july 15th watchtower were based on the bible???????????.

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  UPDATE: on the pirate publisher that was selling my book...

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  back in may, i had a friend email me after the release of our jwstruggle video and tell me that the book i wrote and had published was all over the internet and some of you requested that i keep you up to date, so here goes.. i hired an attorney to write the publisher a letter.

  they stopped selling hard copies and the digital copies of my book but have still not sent a full accounting of how many of my books they sold and reimbursed me and are now ignoring my phone calls and attorneys letters.

  so the lawyer suggested that since it is difficult to sue internationally, i call the local office of the fbi.

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  Thank you everyone. It's been a very stressful year. My family shunning me just makes it worse. But what doesn't kill us, makes us stronger. It is called "The Devil's Triangle' ISBN# 9781591460015 Terry. there is not much that I would have differently. But just a few suggestions. File for your Copyright right now. www.copyright.gov/ They will have you sent them or email a copy of your material. It costs around $35 I believe. Apply for your own ISBN # instead of letting the publisher do it for you. Now, I would probably self-publish, because the minute you send a publisher your digital file its on their computer. Like me, they sold out to another publisher and it accidently got sent with the rest of the files. I found out that my book was all over the internet back in May when our 'elders meeting' video was released and someone emailed me and said that my book was all over the internet. Just like with identity theft, there is only so much you can do to stop the damage. Scary21: In case I missed your first post and didn't welcome you, WELCOME to the forum. Yeah, you would think that it would be easier and cheaper to pay me what they owe me instead of facing a $250,000 fine per felony count [1 for hard copies and another for digital copies]
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  Well I gotta go......

  by punkofnice in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ...i might drop in every now and then but i hope you all enjoy life, escape the watchtower(r) and live prosperous lives.. i can't say i contribute much here anyway (and i'm not attention seeking).. i'm just going to get on with life away from the constant reminder of the mistakes i made being a jw zombie drone.. i guess i'm just going to fade.......rather quickly.. of course i didn't need to make any posts here to disappear but i thought it'd be polite and very british to bid you all a fond farewell.. see you all sometime.....maybe.....maybe not.....maybe....... bye!.

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  don't pm me as i won't be checking the pms.. .

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  You may think that you have not contributed much, but I find you honest, realistic and quite humorous. Some of your posts have made me laugh out loud. You will be missed and enjoy our new life away from the cult.
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  UPDATE: on the pirate publisher that was selling my book...

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  back in may, i had a friend email me after the release of our jwstruggle video and tell me that the book i wrote and had published was all over the internet and some of you requested that i keep you up to date, so here goes.. i hired an attorney to write the publisher a letter.

  they stopped selling hard copies and the digital copies of my book but have still not sent a full accounting of how many of my books they sold and reimbursed me and are now ignoring my phone calls and attorneys letters.

  so the lawyer suggested that since it is difficult to sue internationally, i call the local office of the fbi.

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  Back in May, I had a friend email me after the release of our JWStruggle video and tell me that the book I wrote and had published was all over the internet and some of you requested that I keep you up to date, so here goes.

  I hired an attorney to write the publisher a letter. They stopped selling hard copies and the digital copies of my book but have still not sent a full accounting of how many of my books they sold and reimbursed me and are now ignoring my phone calls and attorneys letters. So the lawyer suggested that since it is difficult to sue internationally, I call the local office of the FBI. Yes, VERY scary. So it took me 2 weeks to get up the courage so I finally called them. Very nice agent. Took all the information and said they would assign an agent to my case and look into it. That warning at the beginning of a DVD? is real and they take it very seriously as copyright infringement. He then gave me the phone # for the Federal Trade Commission & the Federal Customs dept. So I filed complaints with all 3 agencies and they will look into it and told me to hang on to all the evidence I gathered because it is a FEDERAL offense to pirate a book and sell it, then when it is over the U.S borders into Canada, it then becomes a Federal CUSTOMS and Trade Commission fraud.

  YIPPEE! I hope they go after them damn pirates!
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  The Book of Revelation and our Time

  by Crazyguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i know there are not many peterists out there but for the sake of argument all you bible believers, a question for you.

  its looking more and more like the book of revelation was written for john's time and not ours.

  the number mentioned 666 is more likely 616 for the emperor caligula who put a statue of himself in the temple at jerusalem, and the first verses in the book and the last chapter all say that these thing will happen quickly.

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  I believe there are still some things in Revelation for us. Babylon the Great has not been destroyed by God yet. She hasn't become the 'Mother of all Harlots" until the mid 1800's when all thse little churches [Mormons, JW's, Adventists, etc] came into existence. Her 'daughters'. The coming of Christ has not happened yet.

  i know that some will say it is all rubbish and Revelation was written by John on an 'acid' trip. But I do still believe in the bible and the next world will be a better place.
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  The Orwells are so naughty! Filthy little apostates we are.

  by Julia Orwell in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my husband has started playing violent samurai video games again!

  he's grown a beard!

  he watched lord of the rings!.

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  Great to hear Julia! It's amazing how much time we have and I can actually watch Big Bang Theory on Thurs nights now.