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Subject: Jehovah's witnesses: What a bunch of sick child abusers! Parents beware!!!

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Date Posted: 13:49:43 09/10/04 Fri
In reply to: X-JW 's message, "Why do the Jws harbour peadophiles! Babylon the great unleashed!!!" on 13:36:07 09/10/04 Fri

The Jehovah's Witnesses organisation keeps a sex offenders register that nobody outside the church is allowed to see, a former "elder" tells Panorama.

Bill Bowen, who has spent his lifetime as a Jehovah's Witness and nearly twenty years as an elder, says the organisation covers up abuse by keeping this database secret.

His sources indicate there are 23,720 abusers on the list - who are protected by the system.

"They [the Jehovah's Witnesses] do not want people to know that they have this problem", he tells Panorama.

"And by covering it up they just hurt one person. By letting it out, then they hurt the image of the church."

According to the Jehovah's Witnesses' interpretation of the Bible, allegations of child abuse must first be reported to the organisation's legal desk. The police are sometimes never told.

Action can only be taken within the congregation if there are two witnesses to a crime or a confession from the accused.

And if a member of the congregation is suspected or even convicted of child abuse, this fact is kept secret.

When Alison Cousins was abused by her father she followed the procedure she had been taught - she turned to one of the elders.

Unknown to her at the time, her sister had also reported her own abuse by their father in the same way.

Despite having known for three years that Alison's father was a paedophile, the same elders sent Alison back home, where she continued to be abused.

In the end Alison went to the police and her father was sentenced to five years in prison.

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Jehovah's witnesses kingdom halls: a paedophiles paradise!	X-JW	14:02:31 09/10/04 Fri