Jehovah's Witnesses destroyed notes about child sex abuse, inquiry told
Australian Associated Press Monday 27 July 2015 05.56 EDT
Jehovah’s Witnesses destroyed notes about child sexual abuse to stop them falling into the wrong hands and to “protect their wives”, a church elder has told a national hearing in Sydney.
The opening day of a royal commission hearing into abuse within the church has heard how 1,006 allegations of child abuse since 1950 were dealt with internally and never reported to police.
It has also heard that victims were made to confront their abusers and left feeling...
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It’s not just The Roman Catholic System that commits and covers up heinous crimes, The Jehovah’s Witnesses do as well.
It’s also good that the press are covering these horrendous crimes. So well done to The Australian Associated Press and The Guardian. The British press are definitely improving in their coverage of the terrible crime of child abuse.