Legal Scandals
		Table of Contents. Sexual Explotation Of Children Within Jehovah's Witnesses.   Under the section Per Westerlund, I describe how the criminal network Jehovah's Witnesses has exposed me to theft of sperm. This has made me take an interest in other alleged ills within the organization. In 2003, the Swedish Television's (SVT) program Uppdrag Granskning (Mission Review) made a report on pedophilia within Jehovah's Witnesses. The report is available on YouTube. All in Swedish except Del 4 (part 4) which contains an interview in English with the Jehovah's deflector Bill Bowen. Uppdrag granskning Del 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgyIsa8DChE The report is presented in 4 parts. In the report Anders and Johanna tells how they were exposed to sexual abuse when they as children were members of Jehovah's Witnesses. Anders says, "I was forced to intercourse and all that belonged to it. He was older and strong. I was afraid of him, if I told someone about it he would kill me." Anders and Johanna came later to be excluded from the organization after their testimonies. Jehovah's Witnesses is an organization based on beliefs in authority. The highest authority is Jehovah (God). The rules available to the members are reproduced in the Bible. This is where the members receive their directives from Jehovah. If issues of justice arise, the members should turn to the congregation elders. These are older trusted members who act as a kind of court in conflicts. Anders told one of the elders about the abuse. Here he learns that the book of Moses says that one witness is not enough to sentence anyone for a crime or wrongdoing, whatever sin it is. In order to get a judgment, two or three people must testify. That principle Jesus also refers to in the Matthew Bible. Considering this the sentence had fallen. There couldn't be any justice for Anders and Johanna because there were not enough witnesses. It was enough for the rapists to apologize to their victims. It was never considered by the elders to report the crimes to the Police. It was not necessary because Jehovah's will was conducted through the Bible. Uppdrag Granskning indicates that they found 40 victims and 10 pedophiles in their review. The digging SVT journalist, Janne Josefsson, responsible for the report, visited the Jehovah's headquarters in New York hoping to find some answers about the sexual assaults. Little or nothing was achieved during that visit. On the other hand, he got an interview with Bill Bowen. He stated that the leadership of the movement established a register of more than 23,000 pedophiles in congregations around the world, and that it is the International Headquarters in New York, which determines how the elders, even in Sweden, will deal with cases of abuse.