‘He confessed everything’: Jehovah’s Witness elders ignored child sexual abuse allegations
A woman’s reports of sexual assault at the hands of her stepfather were ignored for decades by church leaders, according to court documents. Between 1980 and 1983 the victim, then aged between 13 and 16, was sexually assaulted by her stepfather, who was aged between 28 and 31. The family were practising members of the Jehovah’s Witness Church.