Daily News | Jehovah’s Witnesses abuse scandal is a reminder to end cover-up culture | Editorial
who were all minors, including some victims who were relatives. Perhaps just as disturbing, the investigation found Witnesses leaders were aware of the abuse but did nothing.
In one instance, one of the men charged in October confessed to a committee of Witnesses elders that he had “affairs” with at least nine children in 1998. The confession was part of the secret files maintained at the Jehovah’s Witnesses headquarters outside of New York City. But rather than report the abuse to law enforcement authorities, the Witnesses leaders tried to cover it up while the sexual predator remained in their midst. That has been part of the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ playbook going back decades.
The Inquirer obtained a 1989 memo that instructed elders not to cooperate if police ever showed up with a search warrant. A 1997 memo advised elders not to tell congregations about any known sexual predators, leaving parents unaware and children vulnerable.in 2020 that said, “Any suggestion that Jehovah’s Witnesses foster or enable abuse is false.”
Similar denials have been issued by other religious organizations before. Those with information about abuse would be wise to try a higher authority and call the attorney general’s special hotline at 888-538-8541.
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