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| Studies show us that the more sexually repressed the religion, the more child sexual abuse occurs among its members. Phillip Garrido, for example, who kidnapped Jaycee Dugard and held her as a sex slave for 18 years, was a Jehovah Witness minister. Police were only alerted when he tried to take the babies that he fathered with Jaycee onto a University campus to preach and distribute Watchtower magazines. Do you want these people on your private property, knocking on your door, talking to your children? |
| Even especially prominent JW Representatives, like Robert Edinger, of Bedford (Mitchell Kingdom Hall), for example, repeatedly intoxicated his son with alcohol at the age of 14 or younger, following years of stripping him and beating him. That son survived, however, earned a PHD in Religion at the University of Southern California, and is now fighting back, especially because my father is taking advantage of the fact that my mom has Alzheimer's and cannot express her wishes clearly. After a lifetime of being an attentive son to my mother, now, when she has Alzheimer's and can no longer defend her wishes, my father capitalizes on this and keeps me away from her, because I am not a JW. I have come to realize now, at the age of 54, that child abuse among Jehovah's Witnesses lasts a lifetime. And this web site represents the expression of a lot of hostility over a lot of stupidity of those in power in this organization with their proud egos, not even taking into consideration the consequences of these failed policies that tear families apart, if not sooner, then later. Many family members of JWs suffer, and we need solidarity in order to face these challenges. |
| Adult Survivors of Jehovah Witness Child Abuse |
| Jehovah Witnesses invade private property with no permission of any kind, by surprise, sometimes when you are not at home. Often, they solicit home bible studies with children. Sometimes, they come to visit when you are away from your home and unable to protect your family. They have all of Bloomington, Bedford, and Mitchell, Indiana mapped out into territories for door-to-door canvassing, hoping to be invited to a return visit. The law does nothing to stop this invasion of your private property, since it is considered to be within their 1st amendment rights to solicit our conversions. The only recourse that you have is to notify them that you do not want to be called on and then they will put you on their Do Not Call list. Inform them that Jehovah Witnesses are not allowed on your property. Only by having notified them will you be able to put legal force behind your no trespassing sign. We urge you to do this as soon as possible. Protect your children! Tell the Jehovah Witness representatives listed on the right, or the number in your local phone book, that under no circumstances do you want them to call at your home! |
| We, those of us who had this fearsome and violent ideology thrust upon us in our infancy, we are the principal victims of this fossilized, anachronistic, destructive, and dangerous philosophy of idolatry of self that the JWs try to force with violence upon silent lambs. The Jehovah's Witnesses organization is built on fear, not truth, fear of the almighty warrior god Jehovah, fear of the end of the world, fear of one's neighbors or classmates, or most of all, displeasing the elders, being spied upon, the threat of being outcast and unable to even socialize with one's own mother. Much worse, however, is that they go door-to-door trying to scare us, bothering us when we are trying to enjoy a family meal or getting ready for work. They want you to be afraid as well, so that you will donate to their cause. |
| If you do not like this page or think that it is inappropriate, please contact the following people. Bloomington: Martin Boling, 2506 S. Milton Drive, 47403 (812) 339-8638 (812) 332-6184 Bedford: Faith Spicer, 3609 River Bluff (812) 275-2987 Tell Faith How You Feel: Mitchell: Steven C. Steuer 245 Riverview Addition Bedford, IN 47421-8286 (812) 849-3739 Please leave message! |
| If you have any information about child sexual abuse among Jehovah Witnesses, it is your legal duty to report it to your local law enforcement agency. Please report it to us as well at: info@jwchildabuse.com |
| We are dedicated to helping protect Jehovah Witness children from sexual abuse and to fight against the cover up of sexual abuse. We are investigating a particularly egregious case that has been reported to us involving three local congregations of Jehovah Witnesses in Bloomington, Bedford, and Mitchell, Indiana. Please help to inform the ministers (elders) of these congregations that they have a legal duty to report child sexual abuse to local law enforcement agencies! |
| We wish to thank all of the Christian churches and other non-profit organizations in Indiana and elsewhere that are helping with our campaign. |
IN 1945, Jehovah's Witnesses discerned that blood transfusion was an unscriptural use of blood. Embodied in the Mosaic Law, the
restriction was carried forward into the Christian Greek Scriptures. Acts 15:28, 29 states: "The holy spirit and we ourselves have favored
adding no further burden to you, except these necessary things, to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and
from things strangled and from fornication. If you carefully keep yourselves from these things, you will prosper. Good health to you!"
(See Leviticus 17:10-12.) The Witnesses' refusal to accept blood transfusions led to many confrontations with some in the medical
profession.
More than 4,500 elders in congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses have been trained to speak with doctors to help them see from medical
literature itself all the things that can be done without resorting to blood transfusions. In cases where there is some special need,
appropriate articles are faxed directly to the hospital to help physicians treat Witnesses without using blood. Or the committees arrange
for consultation with other cooperative doctors to develop strategies for bloodless treatment or surgery.
For example, in multitudes of cases of blood loss resulting in severe anemia, in which doctors said there was need for a transfusion to
elevate the red-cell count, Hospital Liaison Committee members have been able to share articles from medical literature showing the
efficacy of recombinant erythropoietin (EPO) to do the same thing. This synthetic hormone acts like the natural erythropoietin found in
our kidneys and stimulates the bone marrow to send new, fresh red cells into the bloodstream.
Some doctors have felt that EPO would not work fast enough to make up the need, but a number of cases involving Jehovah's
Witnesses have illustrated how quickly it gets results. In one instance, on the very day after EPO was administered, the count of new red
cells was already four times normal! In another day the patient stabilized, and by the fourth day, the red-cell count was starting to rise. In
a few more days, it was rising swiftly. The patient survived. In this way the doctors as well as the patient were benefited by the activities
of these Hospital Liaison Committees.
When doctors in Australia said they were unable to save the life of a Witness patient without using blood for treating a rare tropical
disease, they appealed to the local Hospital Liaison Committee for any help the committee could give them in locating information on
nonblood medical management. The Australia branch office of Jehovah's Witnesses was notified of the need. They got in touch with
Hospital Information Services at the international headquarters offices of Jehovah's Witnesses in Brooklyn, New York. It researched a
medical data base. Helpful articles were faxed to Australia. Just 11 hours after leaving the doctor's office, the Australian Hospital Liaison
Committee member was back with the needed articles. These proved to be effective, and the patient recovered. Faxed medical material
has been sent from New York to as far away as Nepal.
Quality Research and Assistance
The quality of the research done by Jehovah's Witnesses in the medical literature is sound and up-to-date. A registered nurse who is
the codirector of surgical services at a hospital in Oregon, U.S.A., said in an article in a medical publication for operating-room
managers: "Jehovah's Witness[es] . . . [are] way ahead of us. They are the most knowledgeable about alternatives to blood and blood
products and often provide us with the literature before we even hear about it."—OR Manager, January 1993, page 12.
Some very prominent doctors and medical centers that can treat without using homologous blood have made themselves available for
consultations as to their approaches and procedures. Their generous response to this need has aided in saving lives, as seen in cases
of successful treatment for leukemia and in various kinds of surgery. These medical consultations were often conducted by international
telephone calls.
Also indicating the extent to which Jehovah's Witnesses have gone to assist those in need when they face a faith-challenging medical
situation has been the arrangement for transferring a patient from one hospital to another, from one part of a country to another, and
even from one country to another. Some examples: An adult patient was flown from Suriname to Puerto Rico; another was flown from
Samoa to Hawaii; an infant, from Austria to Florida, U.S.A.
More Doctors Cooperating
Improvement in the situation for Jehovah's Witnesses can also be seen in the growing number of physicians willing to cooperate with
them in this matter, from about 5,000 five years ago to more than 30,000 now in 65 lands. That number of capable doctors has made
possible another favorable development—the forming of more than 30 bloodless medical and surgery centers in various lands.
Thus, nowadays, at least in North America, one hardly hears of efforts to force a blood transfusion on an adult, and many other lands
are developing to that same point. Most problems now are with newborn babies and especially with premature births. These preemies
start out with many problems associated with underdeveloped organs that do not function normally, such as the lungs and the kidneys.
But doctors are finding ways to treat these conditions without blood transfusions. A synthetic surfactant, for example, is available to
relieve respiratory distress syndrome. The use of EPO is becoming widely accepted for dealing with anemia of prematurity.
Help for Medical Personnel and Officials
To help pediatricians and neonatologists to treat children of Jehovah's Witnesses without blood transfusions, Hospital Information
Services has produced a triple-indexed volume of 55 articles from medical literature that demonstrates what can be done without blood
for a host of problems of the newborn.
"Family Care"
To reach judges, social workers, children's hospitals, neonatologists, and pediatricians with information on the available nonblood
medical alternatives, Jehovah's Witnesses have produced specifically for these medical personnel and officials a 260-page volume
called Family Care and Medical Management for Jehovah's Witnesses.* It is a loose-leaf handbook so that it can be kept up-to-date.
Since there has been some misunderstanding about family life among Jehovah's Witnesses, it also makes clear the love parents have
for their children in a decidedly beneficial, caring atmosphere produced by a life-style engendered by Bible teaching.
How is that publication being received? After examining its contents, the vice president of a children's hospital in Pennsylvania, U.S.A.,
said he would be expecting his staff to digest and use it. He added: "If it doesn't come back to me dog-eared and worn, I will want to
know why!" Already some judges have amended their court orders to require that physicians exhaust all nonblood alternatives before
using blood. Children have been treated without blood and have gone home well.
restriction was carried forward into the Christian Greek Scriptures. Acts 15:28, 29 states: "The holy spirit and we ourselves have favored
adding no further burden to you, except these necessary things, to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and
from things strangled and from fornication. If you carefully keep yourselves from these things, you will prosper. Good health to you!"
(See Leviticus 17:10-12.) The Witnesses' refusal to accept blood transfusions led to many confrontations with some in the medical
profession.
More than 4,500 elders in congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses have been trained to speak with doctors to help them see from medical
literature itself all the things that can be done without resorting to blood transfusions. In cases where there is some special need,
appropriate articles are faxed directly to the hospital to help physicians treat Witnesses without using blood. Or the committees arrange
for consultation with other cooperative doctors to develop strategies for bloodless treatment or surgery.
For example, in multitudes of cases of blood loss resulting in severe anemia, in which doctors said there was need for a transfusion to
elevate the red-cell count, Hospital Liaison Committee members have been able to share articles from medical literature showing the
efficacy of recombinant erythropoietin (EPO) to do the same thing. This synthetic hormone acts like the natural erythropoietin found in
our kidneys and stimulates the bone marrow to send new, fresh red cells into the bloodstream.
Some doctors have felt that EPO would not work fast enough to make up the need, but a number of cases involving Jehovah's
Witnesses have illustrated how quickly it gets results. In one instance, on the very day after EPO was administered, the count of new red
cells was already four times normal! In another day the patient stabilized, and by the fourth day, the red-cell count was starting to rise. In
a few more days, it was rising swiftly. The patient survived. In this way the doctors as well as the patient were benefited by the activities
of these Hospital Liaison Committees.
When doctors in Australia said they were unable to save the life of a Witness patient without using blood for treating a rare tropical
disease, they appealed to the local Hospital Liaison Committee for any help the committee could give them in locating information on
nonblood medical management. The Australia branch office of Jehovah's Witnesses was notified of the need. They got in touch with
Hospital Information Services at the international headquarters offices of Jehovah's Witnesses in Brooklyn, New York. It researched a
medical data base. Helpful articles were faxed to Australia. Just 11 hours after leaving the doctor's office, the Australian Hospital Liaison
Committee member was back with the needed articles. These proved to be effective, and the patient recovered. Faxed medical material
has been sent from New York to as far away as Nepal.
Quality Research and Assistance
The quality of the research done by Jehovah's Witnesses in the medical literature is sound and up-to-date. A registered nurse who is
the codirector of surgical services at a hospital in Oregon, U.S.A., said in an article in a medical publication for operating-room
managers: "Jehovah's Witness[es] . . . [are] way ahead of us. They are the most knowledgeable about alternatives to blood and blood
products and often provide us with the literature before we even hear about it."—OR Manager, January 1993, page 12.
Some very prominent doctors and medical centers that can treat without using homologous blood have made themselves available for
consultations as to their approaches and procedures. Their generous response to this need has aided in saving lives, as seen in cases
of successful treatment for leukemia and in various kinds of surgery. These medical consultations were often conducted by international
telephone calls.
Also indicating the extent to which Jehovah's Witnesses have gone to assist those in need when they face a faith-challenging medical
situation has been the arrangement for transferring a patient from one hospital to another, from one part of a country to another, and
even from one country to another. Some examples: An adult patient was flown from Suriname to Puerto Rico; another was flown from
Samoa to Hawaii; an infant, from Austria to Florida, U.S.A.
More Doctors Cooperating
Improvement in the situation for Jehovah's Witnesses can also be seen in the growing number of physicians willing to cooperate with
them in this matter, from about 5,000 five years ago to more than 30,000 now in 65 lands. That number of capable doctors has made
possible another favorable development—the forming of more than 30 bloodless medical and surgery centers in various lands.
Thus, nowadays, at least in North America, one hardly hears of efforts to force a blood transfusion on an adult, and many other lands
are developing to that same point. Most problems now are with newborn babies and especially with premature births. These preemies
start out with many problems associated with underdeveloped organs that do not function normally, such as the lungs and the kidneys.
But doctors are finding ways to treat these conditions without blood transfusions. A synthetic surfactant, for example, is available to
relieve respiratory distress syndrome. The use of EPO is becoming widely accepted for dealing with anemia of prematurity.
Help for Medical Personnel and Officials
To help pediatricians and neonatologists to treat children of Jehovah's Witnesses without blood transfusions, Hospital Information
Services has produced a triple-indexed volume of 55 articles from medical literature that demonstrates what can be done without blood
for a host of problems of the newborn.
"Family Care"
To reach judges, social workers, children's hospitals, neonatologists, and pediatricians with information on the available nonblood
medical alternatives, Jehovah's Witnesses have produced specifically for these medical personnel and officials a 260-page volume
called Family Care and Medical Management for Jehovah's Witnesses.* It is a loose-leaf handbook so that it can be kept up-to-date.
Since there has been some misunderstanding about family life among Jehovah's Witnesses, it also makes clear the love parents have
for their children in a decidedly beneficial, caring atmosphere produced by a life-style engendered by Bible teaching.
How is that publication being received? After examining its contents, the vice president of a children's hospital in Pennsylvania, U.S.A.,
said he would be expecting his staff to digest and use it. He added: "If it doesn't come back to me dog-eared and worn, I will want to
know why!" Already some judges have amended their court orders to require that physicians exhaust all nonblood alternatives before
using blood. Children have been treated without blood and have gone home well.
Hospital Liaison Committees
To support the Witnesses in their refusal to receive blood, to clear away misunderstandings on the part of doctors and
hospitals, and to create a more cooperative spirit between medical institutions and Witness patients, Hospital Liaison
Committees were established by the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses. Made up of mature Witnesses trained to
deal understandingly with doctors and hospitals, these committees defused confrontations, and they established a
more cooperative spirit. From a handful of such committees in 1979, their number has now grown to 850 in 65 lands.
That means that their helpful services are now available to some 3.5 million of Jehovah's Witnesses.
To support the Witnesses in their refusal to receive blood, to clear away misunderstandings on the part of doctors and
hospitals, and to create a more cooperative spirit between medical institutions and Witness patients, Hospital Liaison
Committees were established by the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses. Made up of mature Witnesses trained to
deal understandingly with doctors and hospitals, these committees defused confrontations, and they established a
more cooperative spirit. From a handful of such committees in 1979, their number has now grown to 850 in 65 lands.
That means that their helpful services are now available to some 3.5 million of Jehovah's Witnesses.
| Dear Brother or Sister, If you have any comments or suggestions concerning this web site, please send them to Chuck Davis at Superior Small Engines, 8835 State Road 60 W, Mitchell, Indiana 47446-7547. Or please feel free to call Charles at 812-849-9944 if you think this site is inaccurate. Or if you would like to defend the Witnesses from these allegations, write to: Chuck@superiorsmallengines.com (Please witness to Chuck by email, let him know the truth about Jehovah's organization!) |