Tag: Jehovah’s Witnesses

‘I was sexually abused aged 12… the church hushed it up so I didn’t bring shame on my family. They can’t silence me any longer’: WAG Rebekah Vardy reveals the trauma of growing up a Jehovah’s Witness – and why she brands it a ‘dangerous cult’

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In Rebekah Vardy's childhood home there were no birthdays or Christmases, television and books were censored and she was warned that youthful mischief or bad manners would bring down the wrath of God on her. As a Jehovah's Witness, she…[Continue Reading...]

Jehovah’s Witnesses do not have to pay £62,000 in damages to woman raped by elder after they went out evangelising door-to-door, Supreme Court rules

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A mother has lost £62,000 damages for being raped by a preacher after a church won a legal battle in the Supreme Court. The worshipper was attacked by Jehovah's Witness elder Mark Sewell, near Cardiff more than 30 years ago. Devastated,…[Continue Reading...]

Most children of Jehovah’s Witnesses followers in Japan have been whipped, survey shows

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Corporal punishment, specifically whipping, has been systemically used by followers of the Jehovah’s Witnesses religious group against their children in Japan, a survey showed Tuesday. Submitting the results of the survey to the welfare ministry, a group of children of…[Continue Reading...]

Child sex assault charges dropped against southern Colorado Jehovah’s Witness church member

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - Charges have been dropped against a Florissant man accused of sexually assaulting eight children tied to a Jehovah’s Witnesses church, where the suspect was reportedly a respected elder. Shawn Swisher was in Teller County court…[Continue Reading...]

Two more Lancaster Jehovah’s Witnesses charged with sexual abuse of children

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Two more Jehovah's Witnesses from Lancaster County have been charged by a statewide grand jury with using their positions within their churches to sexually abuse children. Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry announced charges against Abimael Valentin-Matos, 42, and Norman Aviles,…[Continue Reading...]

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