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  Elders refused to help police investigation into the rape of a teenage girl

  by Gadget in

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  church leaders refused to co-operate with a police investigation into a sex attack by one of their congregation on a teenage girl.. jehovahs witness paul atkin has now been jailed for five years after he admitted sexual activity with a 15-year-old.. a court heard the south shields based branch of the church carried out their own investigation after the allegation came to light and atkin was booted out.. but when police came knocking, church officials refused to help what was then a rape allegation, on the grounds of confidentiality.. prosecutor deborah smith told newcastle crown court: it would appear there was some form of investigation by the church.. we know the defendant was disfellowshipped as a consequence of that investigation but there has been no disclosure of any minutes of meetings with the defendant and the elders have refused to provide statements to the police, despite the fact the defendant is no longer a member of their congregation, on the grounds of confidentiality.. atkin, of east moffat street, south shields, was initially accused of rape but the charge was dropped when he admitted sexual activity with a child.. the court heard his victim was 15-and-a-half when he had sex with her.. miss smith said: she did not wish to have sexual intercourse with him.. the crown accept, having discussed matters with her, the defendant may reasonably have believed that she did.. she did not fight back or shout out at the time of the incident.. the court heard the woman is still on anti-depressants and says her self confidence has been shattered by the ordeal.. in a statement read to the court, the victim, who is now an adult, said: this has had a major effect on me and i cannot trust men.. i bottled everything up and as a teenager i turned to drink and drugs.. i hope he gets sent to prison and gets what he deserves.. judge simon hickey jailed atkin for five years and said he must sign the sex offenders register for life and abide by the terms of a sexual offences prevention order for five years.. the judge told him: this has had a huge effect upon this young lady.. gavin doig, defending, said atkin has a good, supportive family and partner and said his family describe him as a hard working man with a job who will face devastating consequences if sent to jail.. he added that it was atkin himself who had brought the matter to the attention of police.. mr doig told the court: this defendant made a very bad mistake a number of years ago.

  he has not made any further mistakes.. he is extremely sorry he committed this offence knowing, as he did, the complainant was under age.. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/south-shields-jehovahs-witness-jailed-8567927.

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  Update from Gadget

  by Gadget in

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  its about a year since i was last on here so i thought i'd come and say hello and let you know how i'm doing.

  i think my last post was announcing that my children, emily and christopher, had just been born over 3 months premature.. life has been a rollercoaster since then, emily spent 3 1/2 months in hosptital and christopher spent 5 months.

  they were very very ill for a long time, and christopher in particular was very unstable often needing to be resuscitated several times a day until just a few weeks before he was discharged.

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  How many people in prison are JW's?

  by Gadget in

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  2. scandals

  i've been reading the topic about how garrido met his wife while in prison, and the discussion about how prison inmates are preached to by jw's.. has anyone done any research into how many people claiming to be jw's there are in prison?

  in the uk it should be quite easy to find out because of the freedom of information act.

  it could even be broken down to how many are in dispersal prisons (and so for much more serious offences), and how many are covered by rule 43 (segregated for their own protection), and how this measures as a total of the prison population.. the last time i looked it up, there was 1 jw to approx 300 people in the uk.

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  fun at the assembly.........

  by Gadget in

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  i'm almost tempted to go to the assembly this sunday..... redevelopement work is taking place in newcastle england, and the latest part of this is for the former scottish and newcastle brewery (where they brewed newcastle brown ale for years) to be blown up on sunday morning.

  demolition is scheduled for around 930 am.. a few hundred metres from the demolition site is the newcastle telewest arena where the district assembly is being held this weekend, the days program starting around the same time as the demolition.. can you imagine how 8000 witnesses are going to react when during the openning prayer asking for armegedon to come there is suddenly a loud explosion and the building begins to shake!!!!!!!

  roflmao!.

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  Computer problems.........

  by Gadget in

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  i'm trying to repair my parents pc and wondered if any of the tech-type people on here could give me some pointers....... the problems started about a week ago.

  offline the computer works as normal.

  online the homepage starts up fine, albeit now with lots of pop-ups.

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  I got married yesterday!

  by Gadget in

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  i've been posting on here for four years now, and so much has changed in my life.

  everything seemed to be going wrong then, but time has done wonders and things are real good now.

  lots of people on the board helped and supported me through that, as well as new non-witness friends that i made.

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  Whats the latest list of blood products allowed by JWs?

  by Gadget in

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  2. medical

  my jw mother got taken into hospital this afternoon, and it looks likely she'll be having surgery soon.

  whats the latest list of blood products thats been approved by the wbts for witnesses to take?

  and more importantly, i need the references to wt publications to be able to back it up.. thanks, paul..

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  Ubunto/Linux os?

  by Gadget in

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  does anyone here use the ubunto os?

  i've been reading a bit about it, and have a spare hard drive i can install it on to experiment without risking my data so i fancy giving it a try.. the main things that concern me are ease of use/setup (once i get used to it), and compatability with other software i use.

  for example, will the driver for my modem/printer/scanner/etc be compatable?.

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  Christianity undergoes massive global shift

  by Gadget in

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  2. beliefs

  this link was posted on another group i read.

  i've heard a lot on here about jw's negative growth in the western world, but having huge growth in third world countries.

  this book claims the same thing is happening in christianity as a whole.

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  I had my operation

  by Gadget in

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  i had my operaton this afternoon, and everything went well!

  i've had problems breathing through my nose for the last few years, so hopefully that'll be all fixed when i heal up.

  i'd heard a lot of horror stories about how bad the op is, but it didn't seem that bad.

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