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(/) Welcome : Login (/account/login) Home (/) / WatchTower Society (/subject/watchtower) / Child Abuse Issues (/subject/child-abuse) / THE silentlambs ARCHIVE - Every News Article Ever THE silentlambs ARCHIVE - Every News Topic Stats Started 11 years ago Article Ever by UnDisfellowshipped (original) (http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/39165/1) 21 posts by 1 participants « (/topic/silentlambs-archive-every-news-article-ever?page=1) Last post was 11 years ago 1 (/topic/silentlambs-archive-every-news-article-ever?page=1) 2 (/topic/silentlambs-archive-every-news-article-ever?page=2) » (/topic/silentlambs-archive-every-news-article-ever?page=2) UnDisfellowshipped (/member/UnDisfellowshipped) 11 years ago THE SILENTLAMBS NEWS ARCHIVE (/member/UnDisfellowshipped) Below is EVERY silentlambs News Article EVER (Including Television Program Transcripts, Radio Program Transcripts, Newspapers, Magazines, and More) starting from the NEWEST Article, going all the way back to 1996 (and even one Article from 1977). If I have missed any silentlambs News Articles, please add them to this Thread. I made this Thread to help the Media and everyone else to have one Web Page where they go and see a TIMELINE of all the silentlambs News Articles. For all of you who want to give Links of this Thread to your Friends, Family, Media, or anyone else, here is this Thread's Website Address: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.aspx?id=39165&site=3 (/forum/thread.aspx?id=39165&site=3) I hope this Thread helps everyone! I welcome any and all comments and questions. For more information on the "Pedophile Paradise" in the Jehovah's Witnesses, go to http://www.silentlambs.org (http://www.silentlambs.org/) I got most of these Articles from http://silentlambs.org (http://silentlambs.org/) and http://watchtower.observer.org (http://watchtower.observer.org/) and http://www.watchtowernews.org/pedophilenews.htm (http://www.watchtowernews.org/pedophilenews.htm) Also, I want to give a BIG Thank You to GRITS for helping me find some of these Articles. And, Now, Here are the NEWS ARTICLES: SUGAR Magazine (Britain's Best-Selling Magazine for Teenage Girls) - November 2002 Issue, Pages 20-21: Here are the Web Pages where you can see this Magazine Article, which is called "I Put My Sex Abuse Dad in Prison": 1 of 178 1/16/2014 2:37 PM THE silentlambs ARCHIVE - Every News Article Ever http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/silentlambs-archive-every-news-article-ever?pag e=1&s... Page 20: Page 21: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- e-watchman.com Essay - October 15th 2002: Justice for the Silent Lambs In recent months, the news media has brought to the public's attention shocking stories of child sexual abuse within the families and congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses. As horrendous and heart breaking as child abuse is, the most disturbing aspect of such revelations is the apparent failure on the part of local elders and the Watchtower Society's leadership to deal appropriately with the accused and especially their victims. In all fairness, if such cases of mishandled child abuse were isolated, we might be justified in coming to the conclusion that a few elders simply lacked proper judgment---certainly that would be bad enough. But, apparently there are literally thousands of cases of abuse on file at the Watchtower headquarters and a pattern has definitely been established as to how such cases are handled---or mishandled, as the case may be. Given the secretive nature of the judicial process in the congregations, most of Jehovah's Witnesses have been kept in the dark as to the extent of the problem. But now that the victims of sexual abuse have been given a voice through the public media, and courageous abuse advocates have also stepped forward from within Jehovah's Witnesses to speak for them and verify their stories; they all tell a very similar tale. It goes something like this: A trusted brother in the congregation, sometimes a family member, abuses the victims over a period of time. The victim finally musters the courage to go to the elders and report the crime. The Watchtower's Legal department is contacted. A committee of elders is formed to handle the case. Typically, the accused denies the charges and the elders tell the victim that their hands are tied because there are not two witnesses to the crime. Sometimes the police are notified and other times they are not---depending upon local legal requirements. One would think that such cases could be handled straightforwardly, especially by elders who presumably have Christ's mind on matters and who appreciate their responsibility to plead the legal case of the afflicted one. We might call to mind the apostle Paul's clear-headed judgment of a moral offense in the first century Corinthian congregation, which involved a scandalous case of immorality between a man and his father's wife. At 1st Corinthians 5:3-4, Paul told the brothers that even though he was personally absent in the flesh, he was present in the spirit and had judged the case already. His judgment was that the immoral man should be put out of the congregation. It was an op en and shut case as far as the apostle was concerned. Paul told the Corinthian congregation that their cause for boasting was not proper. His words apply to us with equal force: "And are you puffed up, and did you not rather mourn, in order that the man that committed this deed should be taken away from your midst?" How might Paul judge those men today who abuse or rape children? We cannot imagine Christ or Paul turning away an abused child who came to them for justice. How must Jehovah view the shepherds who fail to render justice to the disadvantaged and afflicted ones? Really, what must the God of righteousness think when his dear sheep are skinned and abused and they go to the appointed shepherds for protection and justice and the shepherds turn them away? How must God judge his shepherds? If the shepherds shove aside the legal claim of the abused, such elders have unquestionably abused their power and reproached their Creator. To the shame of all of Jehovah's Witnesses, and a reproach to Jehovah God himself, the pattern that has emerged indicates that sexual abuse has not been the only form of abuse that has taken place in the organization. In addition to the scourge of sexual abuse, we must add abuse of power to the charge against the Watchtower and the congregations' appointed shepherds. Most sobering is that this accusation is not from those who might be described as opposers of the truth, but from God himself. According to the Watchtower's official policy (http://www.jw-media.org/releases/bg_molestation.htm), in the absence of an outright confession of guilt on the part of the accused, no judicial action can be taken against any accused molester unless there happen to be at least two witnesses to the crime. Ancient Biblical law expressly forbade the judges from acting upon the accusations of a single accuser, so, according to the Watchtower, the very law of God prevents our elders from rendering justice to the afflicted one! But how can that be? Doesn't God's law specifically caution his judges that under no 2 of 178 1/16/2014 2:37 PM THE silentlambs ARCHIVE - Every News Article Ever http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/silentlambs-archive-every-news-article-ever?pag e=1&s... circumstances are they to shove aside the legal claims of fatherless boys and widows? Yet isn't that exactly what we have done, even using God's own law as a pretext for doing so? If there were some doubt as to how God's law should be applied today, wouldn't it be better for God-fearing elders to err on the side of the abused rather than the accused? When Christ instructed his disciples to be quick about settling matters of dispute by taking "along one or two witnesses, so that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every matter may be established," surely we are mistaken in applying that legal precept to cases of child abuse. After all, the first step in the process that Jesus outlined instructs the offended party to "go lay bare his fault between you and him alone." Surely, though, it is absurd and outrageous to expect an abused child to confront their adult abuser in private. No sane or reasonable person would suggest such a course of action be taken. Would Jesus Christ advise one of his battered lambs to go in private to confront the wolf that had just devoured them? Of course not! But the question arises; if we do not require the victim to observe the first part of Christ's mandate, why then do we insist that the second aspect of that directive, in regard to the need for two witnesses, must be scrupulously observed? Are we so unreasonable as to imagine Christ demands that abused children produce another witness before they can obtain some sort of justice from the elders? Even human law recognizes that children are vulnerable and therefore warrant special legal protection. That's why there are child protection agencies and laws that protect the rights of infants and minors. Jehovah himself is the primary advocate of the defenseless and afflicted. Yet, the Watchtower's policy makes no distinction between the judicial claim of an abused child and that of an adult.
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