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Jehovah’s Witness organisation has secret database of child sex abuse claims against members
The Telegraph
Investigations team
Wed, June 29, 2022 at 10:00 p.m.

The Jehovah’s Witness organisation has amassed a secret database of child sexual abuse allegations against its members, the Telegraph can disclose.

The religion – which has more than 140,000 members in Britain – has collated details of molestation accusations over the last 25 years at its headquarters, known as Bethel or “Branch” among followers.

Documentation obtained by this newspaper shows that senior officials - known as elders - were asked in the late 1990s to log details of child abuse allegations and forward them on to the central office, which is now based in Chelmsford.

The instruction to record and keep details of abuse has been repeated multiple times since then.

The existence of a database of abuse allegations has already been established in the United States and Australia, but this is the first time that it has been shown to be in Britain.

In a statement, the Christian Congregation of the Jehovah’s Witnesses said current child protection policies instruct leaders to “make a report to the police wherever it appears that a child is in danger of abuse”. They did not however, respond to questions about whether the historical database of allegations had been passed to the authorities.
Database ‘must now go to police’

Victims of abuse within the religious group have now called for any collection of allegations to be passed to the police.

They are disgusting, filthy and unclean, along with so many other religions guilty of the same and more!