Child Abuse Scandals Not Limited to Catholic Priests...Jehovahs Witnesses Have Their Own Sick Tales

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Not a very good reflection on organized religion here. http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/07/27/3684865/australia-jehovahs-witnesses/


The Jehovah’s Witnesses Church in Australia failed to report more than 1,000 reports of child sexual abuse since 1950, according to testimony presented at a government inquiry into the claims.On Monday,

Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse began to hear two cases of child sexual abuse which will be used to examine how the church has historically dealt with such claims.

The first case presented was that of a 47-year-old church member who said she first began to suffer sexual abuse at the hands of a church elder when she was 15 years old.
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I think any organization with authority figures or someone you are supposed to look up to or obey is open to this. I'm glad they let people know it can happen in Jehovah's Witnesses. I guess those who heard about years ago reacted with the not me or not here syndrome-denial. Some find it too awkward including how to respond.
 
Sadly, scratch any organisation that caters to children, you are bound to find child abuse. Perpetrators purposely cultivate positions of authority/trust for that purpose. School, sports, church, camp, music lessons, et al. Even doctors and therapists.
 

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