Jehovah's Witness criticised over sexual abuse claims

Originally quotted by divegeester
“It’s deeply disappointing that a faith-based organisation appears to be so determined to try and avoid answering questions about its own behaviour"

The ongoing Royal Commission into institutional abuse in Australia has unearthed a lot of horrific stuff. Like the pedophile priest bounced from parish to parish, reoffending every time, and they just let him do it again and again. The organisation is in total disarray in Australia now. The latest claims are against Cardinal George Pell, who is "medically unfit" to travel back from the Vatican to defend himself. Pell presided over the group who passed pedophile priests from parish to parish, so his credibility here is already zero.

Originally posted by Kewpie
The ongoing Royal Commission into institutional abuse in Australia has unearthed a lot of horrific stuff. Like the pedophile priest bounced from parish to parish, reoffending every time, and they just let him do it again and again. The organisation is in total disarray in Australia now. The latest claims are against Cardinal George Pell, who is "medically ...[text shortened]... oup who passed pedophile priests from parish to parish, so his credibility here is already zero.

“Deliver Us From Evil,” Amy Berg’s important, hard-to-watch debut feature, is not the first documentary about the sexual abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church — Kirby Dick’s “Twist of Faith” was nominated for an Oscar last year — and it will probably not be the last. Pedophilia is not a subject most are eager to think about, but these days it seems impossible to avoid. Neither sensationalistic nor sentimental, Ms. Berg’s film is clear-sighted, tough-minded and devastating, a portrait of individual criminality and institutional indifference, a study in the betrayal of trust and the irresponsibility of authority.

What gives the film some of its unnerving power is that, in addition to giving voice to some of the victims of abuse, it spends a lot of time with a perpetrator. Oliver O’Grady is now a silver-haired, twinkly-eyed resident of Ireland, where Ms. Berg often films him in parks and near playgrounds, with children nearby. In the 1970’s and 80’s, while serving as a parish priest in several towns in Central California, he molested children over and over again, both boys and girls, including, it is reported, a 9-month-old.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/movies/13evil.html?_r=0

Originally posted by ThinkOfOne
Highly recommend the documentary "Deliver Us from Evil" from 10 years ago. Not about Australia, but sheds much light on the RCC and it's handling of the issue.

Originally posted by HandyAndy
Also recommended is the 2015 biographical drama "Spotlight" in which a team of investigative reporters at the Boston Globe in Massachusetts uncovers widespread child sex abuse in the Boston area by Roman Catholic priests, eventually leading to the fall from power of Cardinal Bernard Law.

Originally posted by sonhouse
So the Law fought the law but the law won.....

Wow another Lapdogjeester Jehovahs witness criticised over sexual abuse claims thread. Please someone poke this guy with a stick to see if he responds, he's so brain dead that he thinks he can pass his religious bigotry off by feigning a sincere interest in child abuse. He has NO interest in child abuse, he is only interested in vilifying Jehovajs Witnesses. This must be possibly the third or fourth thread he has started on the issue, predictable, unoriginal and transparent. If he ever gets an original thought please let me know.

Ask him for his churches child protection policy, last time I asked him he didn't even have one.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Wow another Lapdogjeester Jehovahs witness criticised over sexual abuse claims thread. Please someone poke this guy with a stick to see if he responds, he's so brain dead that he thinks he can pass his religious bigotry off by feigning a sincere interest in child abuse. He has NO interest in child abuse, he is only interested in vilifying Jehovajs W ...[text shortened]... Ask him for his churches child protection policy, last time I asked him he didn't even have one.

Originally posted by Kewpie
The ongoing Royal Commission into institutional abuse in Australia has unearthed a lot of horrific stuff. Like the pedophile priest bounced from parish to parish, reoffending every time, and they just let him do it again and again. The organisation is in total disarray in Australia now. The latest claims are against Cardinal George Pell, who is "medically ...[text shortened]... oup who passed pedophile priests from parish to parish, so his credibility here is already zero.