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Jehovah's Witnesses 'fostered distrust' of secular authority royal commission counsel
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
Posted: December 20th, 2015
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/dec/01/jehova...
A damning submission to the royal commission on child sexual abuse has recommended 77 adverse findings against the Jehovahs Witnesses in Australia. The church fostered distrust of secular authorities and its response to child sexual abuse fell short of best practice, counsel to the commission Angus Stewart QC found in his submission. Since 1950 the church has received 1,066 allegations against its members and did not report any of them to police. Stewart ... was critical of the church for requiring abuse victim BCB, who gave evidence at the July hearing, to confront her abuser and for not allowing the involvement of women when her complaint was being investigated. The evidence in July was that although elders in the Western Australia congregation where BCB was abused by elder Bill Neill believed her, Neill was allowed to keep his job. BCB who was in her mid-teens and had been groomed by Neill for a number of years was made to continue to attend Bible classes with him and discouraged from discussing the abuse with anyone, Stewart found. Among the other findings open to the commission was that there was no justification for the Jehovahs Witnesses not to report to police when the victim was a minor and others were still at risk, Stewart said.
Note: Watch an excellent segment by Australia's "60-Minutes" team titled "Spies, Lords and Predators" on a pedophile ring in the UK which leads directly to the highest levels of government. A second suppressed documentary, "Conspiracy of Silence," goes even deeper into this sad subject. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing sexual abuse scandal news articles from reliable major media sources.
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