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Flawed Decree Conceals Criminals

Unknown to the majority of Jehovah’s Witnesses, their religious organization, directed by two corporations, the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, Inc., and the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., began at least six decades ago to conceal criminals within the group. This will be proven in many ways in the following discussion including by what happened in Sydney, Australia, beginning in the spring of 2013 when the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse began to hold public hearings. Starting from July 27, 2015, for eight days the Commission (ARC) examined the church of Jehovah’s Witnesses (JWs) response to allegations, reports or complaints of child sexual abuse, and their procedures in place to prevent child sexual abuse.

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Australia Royal Commission Archives – 2017

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Videos of 2017 Australian RoyalCommission Hearings

 

All sessions were held on March 10, 2017 in Sydney, Australia. These hearings were to act as follow up to the August 2015 hearings that reviewed several typical child abuse cases involving Jehovah’s Witness congregations. More information on those hearings will be available soon. Please check back.

Here are the transcripts of the three sessions held on March 10:

2017 Witness List

2017-ARC-Transcript

2017-ARC-hearing-complete-transcript

 

Here are videos of the three live sessions held in Sydney, Australia on March 10, 2017:

 

 

 

Australia: “Royal Commission Referred 1600+ Cases to Police”

Brad Ryan at ABC News (Australia) reports that the Royal Commission on Child Abuse has created a huge backlog cases for the police to investigate. The lead to Ryan’s article published Sunday, September 12, 2016, stated,  “Police ‘under pressure’ after 1,659 cases flagged for investigation…”

Ryan reports that “…the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse has referred more than 1,500 matters to authorities, straining the resources of police forces around the country…Justice Peter McClellan, who chairs the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, told a hearing in Sydney that 1,659 matters had been passed on to police to consider for further investigation.”

The article continues to describe the amount of work facing Australian law enforcement:

“…Prosecutions have been brought against 71 people.

“Because of the volume of references, the resources of the various police forces have been placed under significant pressure,” Justice McClellan said. “I understand a great many references are awaiting investigation, or the investigations are underway but not complete.”

Justice McClellan said the commission had received information about more than 4,000 institutions, but it was impossible to hold public hearings into all of them.

“We have carefully selected the institutions we have publicly investigated with a view to providing the Government, the institutions and the public with an understanding of the nature of the problems which we have identified,” he said.
“The case studies have been selected to ensure an appropriate geographical spread and also an appropriate reflection of the type of institution where survivors were abused.”

Commissioners have also met abuse survivors in 5,866 private sessions, with another 1,616 people yet to be seen.

The commission is today beginning a public hearing into how Catholic authorities dealt with allegations of abuse by former priest John Farrell.

It will examine the responses of the Catholic dioceses of Armidale and Parramatta, and a Sydney special issues group.

Justice McClellan said it was expected to be the royal commission’s final hearing specifically relating to Catholic institutions.

LINK to original article at ABC NEWS Australia