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Eugene

(61,964 posts) Sat Jun 16, 2012, 07:16 PM Jun 2012

Calif Jury Awards $28M in Jehovah's Sex Abuse Case

Source: Associated Press

Calif Jury Awards 28M in Jehovah's Sex Abuse Case

OAKLAND, Calif. June 17, 2012 (AP)

A Northern California jury has awarded $28 million in damages to a woman who said the Jehovah's Witnesses allowed an adult member of a Fremont church to molest her when she was a child in the mid-1990s.

Alameda County jurors awarded $7 million in compensatory damages on Wednesday and another $21 million in punitive damages on Thursday to Candace Conti, her attorney, Rick Simons said.

"This is the largest jury verdict for a single victim in a religious child abuse case in the country," Simons told The Associated Press.

In her lawsuit, Conti, now 26, said from 1995-1996, when she was 9 and 10 years old and a member of the North Fremont Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, she was repeatedly molested by a fellow congregant, Jonathan Kendrick.

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Calif Jury Awards $28M in Jehovah's Sex Abuse Case (Original Post) Eugene Jun 2012 OP

I'm sure the Jehovah's Witnesses are furious at this woman... richmwill Jun 2012 #1

Oh you can be sure. Here is one of their depictions of someone like her: Schema Thing Jun 2012 #2

Jehovah Witnesses 'pedophile paradise' DannyHaszard Jun 2012 #3

richmwill

(1,326 posts)

1. I'm sure the Jehovah's Witnesses are furious at this woman...

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 07:20 PM

Jun 2012

I remember a similar case a few years ago where a member went to police with child sex abuse accusations, and the other members were irate that she went to the police instead of "allowing the church to deal with it privately".

Schema Thing

(10,283 posts)

2. Oh you can be sure. Here is one of their depictions of someone like her:

Reply to richmwill (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 08:46 PM

Jun 2012

(because you can bet all your money that they generally believe she is a "bad one&quot

yep, that's the lovely imagery wrt my fellow man that I was raised with.

DannyHaszard

(20 posts)

3. Jehovah Witnesses 'pedophile paradise'

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sun Jun 17, 2012, 02:13 AM

Jun 2012

Jehovah's Witness religion is known as the "pedophiles paradise" FOR A REASON.

The Jehovah's Witnesses religion requires TWO WITNESSES to a crime before they will consider it to have happened. How often are there two witnesses of an act of pedophilia? Not only this, but Jehovah's Witnesses generally speaking trust other members COMPLETELY despite knowing nothing about one anothers past - it is enough that you are "one of Jehovah's Witnesses".

Finally, the leaders of this religion care about only one thing in instances of child molestation, and that is maintaining the white-washed appearance of the religion. For this reason, every settlement with victims of child abuse have required the victim to sign a gag order as documented by NBC.

Jehovah's Witness parents, please protect your children.
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Danny Haszard *tell the truth don't be afraid* FMI
http://www.dannyhaszard.com/sexabuse/index.htm

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