I remember when I first discovered the list of settlements on Rick Ross' anti-cult site, back in 2004 or so ... I was amazed there were so many! And that was, if memory serves me correctly, just in the USA. They have been settling these cases out-of-court for at least 15 or 20 years. And worldwide? It has to be in the millions.
It would be great to see an huge class action suit. If I had the evidence, I would definitely sue them. Let's hope these lawsuits accomplish two things:
1. Show the world what an evil cult the JWS is. The press loves a child abuse expose. Now that the ammunition is in the courts, we can expect to see more documentaries and stories on Britain's Channel 4, Canada's Fifth Estate, and other such programs.
2. Millions of USD bleeding from the coffers of the WTS and going into the bank accounts of their victims. Child sexual abuse is called 'soul murder', and righfully so! They deliberately and maliciously, for their own personal gain, colluded and continue to collude, with pedophiles. They need to be hit where it will hurt the most, and for any corporation, that means take their profits.
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