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Leaders of the Congregation are to be Respected and Obeyed:
Sadly, many of the pedophiles in the religion of Jehovah’s Witnesses are elders and ministerial servants. Children are taught from infancy that those men are appointed by God and should be respected, obeyed, and even feared. Not only those men are respected, but they are also trusted by most members of the congregation and thus, they have easy access to their children. Since they are also “teachers” they can easily pretend to want to teach a child they intend to abuse. When elders sexually abuse children they know exactly what to say to keep them quiet and fearful enough so that they won’t tell anyone.
This tactic is very efficient. Most abused children in this religion never tell until they are adults. If they ever do.
Jehovah will Fix Everything
Every ex or current Jehovah’s Witness have found themselves in this situation. You go to an elder, or a “mature Christian” as they call the most experienced ones, with your complaint about someone, but you are quickly dismissed and told that “Jehovah knows it and he will fix it in his own time.”
How many poor children or teenagers, or even adults, have heard this recurring sentence when they went to the elders to tell them about the abuse they were enduring? Whether it may be sexual abuse or another kind of abuse.
Any non-indoctrinated person would be able to make the difference between a minor issue or even a “sin” and the fact that molesting a child is not just an issue or even a sin, but a crime of utmost importance. A crime against humanity. But it seems that Jehovah’s Witnesses who have been living in the Watchtower bubble for years have lost that basic discernment skill. No matter how grave the problem, even a crime such as sexual abuse on a child, can be dismissed as something that “Jehovah will fix.”
Don’t Bring Reproach on Jehovah
The group of leaders of the religion of Jehovah’s Witnesses called the governing body, likes to make their members believe that they count and that they are valuable. Steven Lett, one of the governing body members said: “if anybody would take action against someone who would threaten our young ones, and takes actions to protect our young ones, it’s Jehovah’s Organization!” This is a lie. The main concern of this organization is not the welfare of children, it’s that no reproach be brought upon Jehovah. In other words, no reproach be brought upon their organization.
It is better in their mind to hide a pedophile than report him to the authorities and tell the members of a congregation that there is a pedophile in their midst so they could take proper measures to protect their children. Their philosophy is, let’s keep quiet, so we can save our reputation.
The only problem is that the Watchtower didn’t count on the damages that the internet was going to do to its organization. Today with dozens of ex-members YouTube channels revealing every little secret of their ex religion, including the big problem of pedophilia among Jehovah’s Witnesses, it is no longer a secret for anyone.
And if that wasn’t enough the Candace Conti (ex-Jehovah’s Witness victim) case in the United States and the Australian Royal Commission in 2015 which put the Watchtower on trial for 1006 pedophilia cases that took place between 1950 and 2015 in Australia, which were not reported to the police, opened the eyes of many members and non-members about the problem.
Today, as news spread on TV and all over the internet thanks to ex-Jehovah’s Witness activists, pedophilia among Jehovah’s Witnesses is no longer a secret, and the watchtower has been and still is forced to reveal what they have been hiding for decades.
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