BBC Radio 4 Broadcast July 2015 ∙ Jehovah's Witnesses and Child Sexual Abuse. Watchtower JW.org
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Date: 2015-07-24

Radio Program Thursday, 23 July 2015
BBC Radio 4 The Report
Jehovah's Witnesses and Child Sexual Abuse (JW.org)
Watchtower policy and the Law

Jehovah's Witnesses and Child Sexual Abuse

The Report ∙ Link http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0612hjs

In June, the High Court ruled that the Jehovah's Witnesses organisation was liable for sexual abuse committed by one of its members. 

The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Britain - to give the group its official name - had failed to take adequate safeguarding steps when senior members of the organisation were aware that a fellow Witness was a known paedophile.

It was the first civil case in the UK of historical sexual abuse brought against the Christian-based religious movement.

The BBC's Religious Affairs Correspondent, Caroline Wyatt, explores the implications of the Court's decision and investigates the child safeguarding policies of the Jehovah's Witnesses. 

The Report hears from former Witnesses who have suffered abuse and who claim that rather than protecting children, the Society provides a 'paedophile's paradise' that encourages allegations of abuse to be dealt with in-house, rather than by the police. 

The programme investigates how the group's Elders are instructed to act when they receive an allegation of sexual abuse, and asks whether the Jehovah's Witnesses have a systematic problem in the way it deals with such complaints. 

Presenter: Caroline Wyatt
Producer: Hannah Barnes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4


Are there really "Apostate driven lies and dishonesties".? Why would the 'Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses' also known as The Watchtower society, pay out millions of pounds and millions of dollars for such a thing that is not there - as outright spoken of in their broadcast by Mr Mark Steven Lett of the JW 'governing body'.?

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