The Jehovah’s Witness have a database of child predators?

in #jehovahs5 years ago

"In March 1997, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, the nonprofit organization that oversees the Jehovah's Witnesses, sent a letter to each of its 10,883 U.S. congregations, and to many more congregations worldwide. The organization was concerned about the legal risk posed by possible child molesters within its ranks. The letter laid out instructions on how to deal with a known predator:"
https://www.realclearreligion.org/2019/03/25/the_secret_jehovah039s_witness_database_of_child_abuse_281113.html

"An astonishing new report in The Atlantic has revealed the alleged existence of a decades-old database of accused pedophiles within Jehovah’s Witnesses, a sect of Christianity with more than 1.2 million members in the United States"
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/jehovahs-witnesses-child-sexual-abuse-811927/

"Keep a copy of the report in your congregation’s confidential file, the instructions continued, and do not share it with anyone."

"Thus did the Jehovah’s Witnesses build what might be the world’s largest database of undocumented child molesters: at least two decades’ worth of names and addresses—likely numbering in the tens of thousands—and detailed acts of alleged abuse, most of which have never been shared with law enforcement, all scanned and searchable in a Microsoft SharePoint file."
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/03/the-secret-jehovahs-witness-database-of-child-molesters/584311/

"Recent documents have been leaked that reveal a secret database of 23,720 Jehovah’s Witnesses accused of child sexual abuse."
https://www.change.org/p/the-new-york-times-bring-media-coverage-to-jehovah-s-witnesses-secret-child-sexual-abuse-database

"It has been reported that the headquarters of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in the UK, the Watch Tower, holds a database of abuse allegations made within the organisation but has yet to hand it over to authorities"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/25/jehovahs-witnesses-accused-of-silencing-victims-of-child-abuse-uk

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