SWITZERLAND: Thousands of sexual assaults in JWs

[Jack Ryan]

http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/panorama/vermischtes/tausende-sexuelle-uebergriffe-bei-den-zeugen-jehovas/story/22658338

[JW Insider]

@Jay Witness This is not a report of thousands of sexual assaults related in any way to Switzerland. It is the report about the thousands of assaults in Australia that the ARC studied. The article does say that Switzerland has dealt "extensively" with the problem of abuse among JWs, but no numbers were given.

Translation of a portion from Google:

From 1950 to 2014 presumably 1006 believers of the Jehovah's Witnesses sexually abused 1,800 children, according to the report. The Commission relies on internal records and documents which the Commission has confiscated. Neither the leadership bodies nor the parents of the victims reported the attacks to the authorities. The members of the family usually do not dare to take legal action against the will of the management board.

It can be assumed that the dark figure is significant, because the leaders have destroyed many documents about the sexual abuse of minors. Furthermore, it is feared that many attacks have not been reported. The Commission also intends to carry out further investigations. It has the competence of courts in the investigations, but can not make judgments. It reported more than 700 cases to the authorities.

Perpetrators were promoted

Of the approximately 1,000 suspected perpetrators, 579 had sexual assaults. A total of 28 of them were promoted, although they were suspected of having minted minors. 410 were initially excluded, but 230 of them were later reintroduced into the Community. The Royal Commission accuses the large, world-wide Christian faith community of hiding sexual abuses, not reporting to the authorities, and also not working internally.