Saturday, August 13, 2016

Jehovah's Witnesses under pressure over handling of sexual abuse claims...

The Jehovah’s Witnesses organisation is under increasing pressure to address its handling of sexual abuse allegations as it faces legal setbacks, bills of over £1m and a fight to prevent the Charity Commission examining its records of abuse claims.

Last month a judge upheld a ruling against the UK’s leading Jehovah’s Witnesses charity, the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society of Britain (WTBTS), that the Jehovah’s Witnesses had failed to protect a woman, known in proceedings as A, from sexual abuse starting when she was four years old.

Now the supreme court has rejected a highly unusual attempt by the WTBTS to block a Charity Commission inquiry into how the Jehovah’s Witnesses charity handles allegations of abuse.

The extent of the charity’s challenges and the length of time they have gone on for are unprecedented in recent times, a spokesman for the Charity Commission said.

In A’s case the high court awarded damages and the WTBTS have been left facing legal fees totalling about £1m after attempting to appeal against the judgement three times. Full story...

Related posts:
  1. Australia Jehovah's Witnesses 'did not report 1,000 alleged abusers'
  2. The female paedophile...
  3. 1,400 investigated in child sex abuse inquiry, including politicians and other...
  4. Australia's worst paedophile priest 'molested every boy' at school in Victoria...
  5. Hollywood’s pedophilia epidemic exposed in ‘An Open Secret’
  6. Surrey school pupils abused by Jimmy Savile, police report says...
  7. Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson charged with concealing child sex abuse...

No comments:

Post a Comment