It's not just the Catholic church.

[Archae]

I've also been reading about how New York City's Orthodox Jews are actually physically assaulting those who report molesting rabbis.

And there's this:

OAKLAND -- A jury has ordered the Jehovah's Witnesses to pay more than $20 million to a woman who accused the religion's national leaders of setting a policy of secrecy that led a Fremont congregation's elders to protect a convicted sex offender who she claims molested her in the 1990s.

An Alameda County Superior Court jury on Thursday awarded $21 million in punitive damages -- and another $7 million in compensatory damages the previous day -- to plaintiff Candace Conti, a San Joaquin County resident.

"It was the nation's largest verdict for a victim of sex abuse involving a religious institution," said Rick Simons, the plaintiff's Hayward-based attorney.

(snip)

The lawsuit claims Watchtower formed a policy in 1989 that instructed the religion's elders to keep child sex abuse accusations secret. The North Fremont congregation elders followed that policy when Kendrick was convicted in 1994 of misdemeanor child molestation in Alameda County, Simons said.

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_20867873/jehovahs-witnesses-must-pay-20-million-fremont-sex

[Warpy]

1. No, it's not just the Catholics. However, they're the ones

who pursued a centuries long policy of simply moving rapists from parish to parish, increasing their pool of victims.

Pedophiles and rapists love to hide behind the flag and the cross.

[pnwmom]

3. The Orthodox Jewish communities with these problems did the same thing.

Probably it happens in all insular, authoritarian communities.

[DCKit]

2. "Misdemeanor child molestation" - never thought I'd see those words in a sentence. nt

[Iggo]

4. It's not JUST them, but it still is them.

[DannyHaszard]

5. Jehovah Witnesses child abuse cover-up

The Jehovah’s Witnesses have a policy within their religion that protects pedophiles.

The official policy is that the elders of the “Church” are supposed to handle the matter internally, without contacting the police. They do this so that shame will not be brought on the religion.

It’s important that they keep a squeaky clean image to the public. Remember they believe they are the only “True” religion and all other Christian Churches are under the control of Satan. JW’s are not supposed to sue other JW’s or involve the police or courts.

They believe these are Satan’s organizations and any crime by a JW should be dealt with internally.The elders will contact the police ONLY if they’re forced to by state law. Otherwise they are forced to follow official policy from headquarters. Some states require that “priests” or “pastors” report child abuse to the authorities. If they are not forced to report them than they cover it up.
You might actually get a unreported pedophile knocking on your door next time they show up peddling pamphlets and selling “Eternal Life".
--
Danny Haszard *tell the truth don't be afraid* FMI http://www.dannyhaszard.com/sexabuse/index.htm

[DannyHaszard]

6. Jehovah's Witness church is *apocalyptic*

Jehovah's Witnesses pedophile cover up problem at a glance:

It's the Watchtower's protocol for (non) handling of criminal pedophilia that is the root of this evil.
Recent Watchtower legal department 'damage control' in house memos on 'correcting' past cover ups and years of past stone walling/foot dragging does not undo decades of child abuse damage.

Too little too late!

Jehovah's Witness church is *apocalyptic* meaning they believe Armageddon ( the end of the world) is coming any moment to *fix* their internal crimes.
So they play down scandals like child abuse.
Involving serious issues of a moral or even criminal nature (as well as everyday matters like back-stabbing by fellow JWs) I would be told,"Danny just wait on Jehovah,any day we are going to be in the new system".
So,they let problems fester without dealing with them,this is what makes JW crimes unique to other groups.
--
Danny Haszard

[PDJane]

7. It happens in any religion that emphasizes penance for sin.

Apparently, you can abuse the people around you, since they are born in sin and will die in sin. Of course, it seems that if you are abused by a man of God, it makes you closer to God or something.

It's superstition, nothing more nor less, and these people don't pay. They should, but they don't.

[Taverner]

13. no, it happens in any religion, period

Even Buddhism, the peaceful, "saintly" Buddhists, who have been openly sexually abusing novice monks in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Sri Lanka for years....

Not a single religion is immune

Religion needs to be tossed into the scrap heap of history, along with geocentrism and creationism.

[Odin2005]

8. This is why religion sucks.

[xchrom]

9. I keep waiting - for more of this - w/ baptists

& unaffiliated evangelicals.

My suspicion is that abuse of girls in regards to these groups is a damn just waiting to burst.

[Archae]

10. It goes on with Baptists also...

But since if you put one Baptist into a room you'll get an argument, they aren't as monolithic as other church groups.

http://stopbaptistpredators.org/index.htm

[xchrom]

11. Yeah - I know they're not monolithic but

A good number of their churches have that retrograde theology that hides sex criminals.

There's a reason so many sex criminals hides in places like these.

Do you know about wartburg watch?
Another site you might be interested in.

[Taverner]

12. Nope...nope...couldn't be religion's fault

Has to be what they ate or something else

Religion can only be GOOD...