Jan
26
Some recent media items on Jehovah’s Witnesses:
Surviving a JW Sadist
Alloma Gilbert has published an article - an excerpt from her upcoming book Deliver Me From Evil (March 2008) - on how she survived being starved, beaten and tortured by her Jehovah’s Witness foster mother Eunice Spry (see also the post Sadistic Foster Mom a Devout [...]
Dec
04
It’s been a while since I posted on Jehovah’s Witnesses in the news. Here’s a roundup. Refusals of blood transfusions, resulting in death. Sexual predators and child molestation. Mental instability. Violence. Even a possible kidnapping. The usual.
I am sure that I’ve missed several additional items, but I’ve become too sad to do more than [...]
May
16
Our government should provide the highest standard of care to women who have volunteered to serve our country. Federal law, however, does little to protect the reproductive rights of servicewomen. Why are servicewomen being denied birth control?
Not only are the 350,000 women (almost 15 percent of all active-duty personnel) banned from accessing abortion care at [...]
Jun
28
Do you know a child who is being abused or molested?
If the crisis is now, please call 9-1-1!
Call the National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-4-A-CHILD (1-800-422-4453)
Do not listen to any counsel that tells you to be silent. Everyone matters.
All calls are anonymous and toll-free. The hotline is staffed 24 hours daily with professional crisis counselors [...]
Aug
30
The Globe and Mail: No jail for Jehovah’s Witness found guilty of abusing daughter
Ontario JW Gower Palmed pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault. Although the court found he abused his daughter on at least five occasions, Judge Kruzick thought he had already been punished by the civil suit - and after all, he’ll [...]
