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Tuesday, February 11th, 2020

The Secret Database of Jehovah’s Witness Child Abusers

Author:     Tarpley Hitt
Source:     Daily Beast
Publication Date:     Feb. 09, 2020 4:59AM ET
Link: The Secret Database of Jehovah’s Witness Child Abusers
Stephan:   First, it was Roman Catholics, then Ultra-Orthodox Jews, then Mormons, now Jehovah's Witnesses. It makes people uncomfortable, but as a culture it is time to deal with the strong correlation of strict religiosity and sexual dysfunction, particularly the sexual exploitation by men of women, girls, and young boys. It is amazing how often reports like this one come up. I only point out this trend a few times a year, when it is particularly notable, as it is in this report. Any more would just be salacious. This is part of abandoning Abrahamic values and creating a society where power expressed sexually is not acceptable. It is a step to recognizing we are not outside but very much a part of the Matrix of consciousness, and that gender equality is part of that. Recognizing that will foster wellbeing and show us a way through the catastrophe of climate change.

On April 1, 2014, a high-ranking member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses named Richard Ashe was answering deposition questions about cases of child sexual abuse when he made a rare, perhaps unintentional, admission: somewhere in their organization, a group comprising nearly 11,000 congregations in the U.S. alone, exists an archive of documents detailing the names and locations of every known child abuser within their American membership.

The deposition, footage of which appears in The Witnesses, a two-part Oxygen documentary compiling five years of reporting from the Center for Investigative Reporting’s Trey Bundy and which debuts Feb. 7 and 8, marked the first public evidence that such a database existed. But it was not the last. Over the following year, internal documents obtained by Bundy would show that since 1997, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, the faith’s nonprofit oversight arm, had been collecting extremely precise data from its American congregations about child sexual abuse with a form that amounted to something like a 12-question survey. Elders, or overseers who report to the faith’s governing body, were 

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2 Comments

  1. Rev. Dean on Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 12:47 pm

    How can people not realize that we are all one despite our religions, our colors, or our beliefs? We are all part of the human race and that is what makes us all one big family; we are all brothers and sisters and all equally a part of this one big earth and equal to everything in it and upon it.

    • Eric on Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 2:09 pm

      Well reverend, religion is a considerable cause of the divisiveness in society. The religions create and promote a “us vs them” spilt in society which is day and night different than what you posted.
      And tell me, with religion actively promoting the division of people within society, your answer as to how we remove this tribalism and become one happy family?