Tag: child sex abuse

The cases marked the first time it had allowed its mother lode of child sexual abuse files into the hands of anyone outside the organization.

We facilitated a day of candid discussions about ways to address the Jehovah’s Witnesses child abuse crisis with sources from across the globe.

Here’s a quick rundown of the major findings from our running investigation into the religion’s efforts to hide child sex abuse.

One abuse case in Australia highlights a pattern among Jehovah’s Witnesses: Elders fail report child sexual abuse to secular authorities. The perpetrator is kicked out of the organization, only to be reinstated later.

A case highlights the struggle of courts to interpret a convoluted web of clergy reporting laws that stretches across U.S.

Claims that Jehovah’s Witnesses hide child sexual abuse from secular authorities have surfaced again in England. The Daily Mail reported last week that Ian Pheasey, a 54-year-old Jehovah’s Witness, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for choking young girls for sexual gratification in the 1990s. Prosecutor Nicholas Taplow said that Pheasey’s victims were told to […]