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Sex Abuse: Witness Leaders Accused of Shielding Molesters

Former and current Jehovah Witnesses question a policy they say discourages leaders from reporting abuse.

Corrie Cutrer | posted 3/05/2001 12:00AM

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After resigning as an elder at his Kentucky congregation, Bowen hopes to motivate Jehovah's Witness leaders to change their policies. "I want all confidential files to be opened and any information that involves pedophiles to be given to the police," Bowen said. "Children are being molested. They are a flock of little sheep who are afraid to speak out. God doesn't want that."

Related Elsewhere

See today's related story about Jehovah's Witnesses, "Watchtower Society Corporate Shakeup."

The Watchtower Society has an official site.

Freeminds.org bills themselves as "the Watchers of The Watch Tower World."

The Watchman Expositor, a publication of a Christian group that researches and evangelizes cults, profiles Jehovah's Witnesses' beliefs and contrasts them to evangelical doctrines about scripture.

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