Listening to Lacie Jones

Lacie Jones suffered abuse at the hands of her stepfather: ‘He was seen as a very pious man, a very moral man’.

Listen to the story of Lacie Jones in this new Telegraph podcast that investigates the inside story of child sexual abuse in this close religious community. The reporters hit one dead end after another. They’re starting to lose hope that they’ll ever land the story, when they get a breakthrough…

They call Bethel, “‘I said, “He’s a paedophile.” The Jehovah’s Witnesses elders mumbled, “Yes, we know.”

Read the Investigations team’s notebook, and for 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph see https://www.telegraph.co.uk/call-bethel/.

If you have any information that could help the investigation, you can email the team on [email protected].

Source, subscription required to read: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/jehovahs-witness-scandal-said-paedophile-elders-mumbled-yes/

Photo credit: Clare Hewitt