"Wombat" <trigby@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On 11 May, 22:18, WT-Gaze...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>> TORONTO (CP) - A Jehovah's Witness who ***ually abused his
>> daughter
>> was sentenced Monday to two years less a day to be served in the
>> community in a case that cast a spotlight on how the church
>> handles
>> ***-abuse complaints within its ranks.
>>
>> The victim, Vicki Boer, said the sentencing of her father
>> validates
>> her allegations and should force the church to face up to its
>> shortcomings in handling her abuse complaint. "For the first
>> time,
>> somebody believed me," Boer said of the judge.
>>
>> "It makes (the elders) accountable. They've never had to be
>> accountable," she said in an interview from Fredericton.
>>
>> In June, Gower Palmer pleaded guilty to one count of ***ual
>> assault in
>> Ontario Superior Court in Orangeville, Ont., about 100 kilometres
>> northwest of Toronto.
>>
>> However, the court found he had abused his daughter on at least
>> five
>> separate occasions, prosecutor Eric Taylor said Monday.
>>
>> YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW must be Carol
>>
>> Taylor said he wanted Justice Emile Kruzick to impose a prison
>> term on
>> Palmer in the three-year range.
>>
>> However, in imposing a lower penalty, Kruzick said Palmer had
>> already
>> been punished by going through a lengthy civil suit. He will
>> also be
>> put on a ***-offender registry and will have to go through
>> counselling.
>>
>> While identifying ***ual-abuse victims is normally prohibited,
>> Boer
>> wanted the public to know her name.
>>
>> "This is a battle that I'm fighting for not even just myself but
>> for
>> other kids," she said.
>>
>> Now a married mother of three pre-teen daughters, Boer said she
>> hoped
>> her criminal and civil battles would force changes to how
>> Witnesses
>> deal with ***ual abuse within their ranks.
>>
>> As part of their beliefs, Jehovah's Witnesses reject anything
>> political or "worldly" that distracts from their focus on Christ
>> and
>> the second coming, which they consider imminent.
>>
>> Boer, 34, was ***ually assaulted by her father between ages 11
>> and 14.
>>
>> Rather than notify authorities, she claimed in an earlier civil
>> suit
>> that church elders told her not to seek outside help or re****t
>> the
>> abuse.
>>
>> She also said they forced her to confront her dad to allow him to
>> repent his sins as outlined in Matthew 18:15-18, a process she
>> said
>> was abusive and traumatic.
>>
>> In 1998, Boer sued the Jehovah's Witnesses through the Watch
>> Tower
>> Bible and Tract Society for $700,000, saying the abuse and how
>> it was
>> handled by the church almost drove her to suicide.
>>
>> In June 2003, Justice Anne Molloy ruled the church could not be
>> held
>> responsible for all her pain and suffering.
>>
>> Molloy found the church had not warned her against re****ting the
>> abuse, and only that one elder had wrongly applied church policy
>> by
>> persuading her to confront her father.
>>
>> She did find the organization negligent in allowing untrained
>> elders
>> to hold the meeting and awarded Boer $5,000 in damages.
>>
>> "They don't follow the (written) policies," said Boer, who
>> abandoned
>> the faith in the early 1990s.
>>
>> Spokesman Mark Ruge disputed Boer's allegations the church tries
>> to
>> deal with abuse away from the prying eyes of outside authorities.
>>
>> "We abhor any ***ual misconduct or abuse, especially when
>> children are
>> involved," said Ruge from Georgetown, Ont.
>>
>> "We abide by the letter of the law as far as legal requirements
>> are in
>> re****ting to the appropriate child-welfare services."
>>
>> Following the civil trial, Boer overcame a reluctance to press
>> charges
>> against her own father (like Revis) saying she wanted him held
>> personally
>> accountable for his actions.
>>
>> Call one now for free bible study, bring your kiddies
>>
>> ~~
>
> WTF can have the doings of a cult in Canada have to do with
> soc.culture.puerto-rico?
Jabriol's been adding SCPR to his latest tangent against the old people in
TN. Telling them his victims hate PRs. Seems like he's looking for a
Puerto
Rican to get them this time. Or he's looking to do to that group what he
did
to rec.ponds. It looks like another Jabber meltdown.
>
> Wombat
> soc.culture.puerto-rico deleted
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