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Kinderschutz · Claim record

Die Royal Commission stellte fest, dass das Festhalten der Organisation an der Zwei-Zeugen-Regel und deren fortgesetzte Anwendung auf Beschwerden über sexuellen Kindesmissbrauch 'is wrong', dass die Regel 'will more often than not operate in favour of a perpetrator' und dass sie zumindest in Fällen sexuellen Kindesmissbrauchs überarbeitet und geändert werden sollte.

Claim ID claim-safeguarding-arc-two-witness-wrongConcerns Oktober 2016Unabhängige Feststellung
Unabhängige Feststellung · Oktober 2016 Geprüft

Die Royal Commission stellte fest, dass das Festhalten der Organisation an der Zwei-Zeugen-Regel und deren fortgesetzte Anwendung auf Beschwerden über sexuellen Kindesmissbrauch 'is wrong', dass die Regel 'will more often than not operate in favour of a perpetrator' und dass sie zumindest in Fällen sexuellen Kindesmissbrauchs überarbeitet und geändert werden sollte. Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Oktober 2016Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Case Study 29, 9. November 2015

Die Position der Organisation oder ihre spätere Erklärung: 'Jehovah's Witnesses consider that the requirement for two witnesses is not a matter for debate as it is based on Scriptural requirements' (Abs. 5.18); die Regel stehe 'in harmony with the law of evidence', und es würden auch dann Vorsichtsmaßnahmen ergriffen, wenn es an Beweisen fehlt (Abs. 9.211-9.216). Im März 2017: 'the two-witness rule is required by the scriptures and can't be changed or avoided... That's our stand' (S. 26525).

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Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, “Report of Case Study No. 29: The response of the Jehovah's Witnesses and Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Australia Ltd to allegations of child sexual abuse”

Oktober 2016 · pp.1-110 (ISBN 978-1-925289-89-3) · pp. 10-12, 14, 24-25, 58-70, 75-78 · The Hon. Justice Peter McClellan AM (Chair); Professor Helen Milroy (Commissioner) · Commonwealth of Australia

“Although the position is not clear in relation to a few files, there is otherwise no evidence before the Royal Commission of the Jehovah's Witness organisation having reported to police or other secular authority a single one of the 1,006 alleged perpetrators of child sexual abuse recorded in the case files held by Watchtower Australia.”

P. 60. Other key passages: p. 58 (files since 1950 record allegations against 1,006 members; 579 admissions; at least 1,800 alleged victims); p. 59 ('The numbers tell their own story'); p. 61 ('We are satisfied that it is the general practice of the Jehovah's Witness organisation in Australia not to report allegations of child sexual abuse to the police or other authorities unless required to do so by law'); p. 65 (two-witness rule: 'retention of and continued application of the rule to a complaint of child sexual abuse is wrong'); p. 67 (men-only decision-making is 'a fundamental flaw'); p. 69 ('places children within the organisation at significant risk'); p. 70 (BCG 'completely shunned, ostracised and actively avoided'); p. 77 ('We do not consider the Jehovah's Witness organisation to be an organisation which responds adequately to child sexual abuse').

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Hinweis zu Herkunft und Überprüfung

Hinweis zur Vertrauensangabe. The official Royal Commission host could not be reached from this environment (TLS renegotiation failure / timeouts), so the NZ-hosted copy of the same Commonwealth publication was downloaded and text-extracted; all quotations verbatim with printed page numbers. Tabled in Parliament 28 November 2016.

Herkunft des Scans. Copy of the Commonwealth publication (CC BY 3.0 AU) held in the New Zealand Abuse in Care Royal Commission evidence library; identical ISBN and pagination to the official release.

Untermauert durch. src-wt-subs-2015-1109-royal-commission, src-arc-2015-0814-day155-transcript

Notes. Public hearing 27 July-5 August and 14 August 2015, Sydney. Survivors identified only as BCG and BCB. Also on parlinfo.aph.gov.au as a tabled paper.

Abgerufen. 19. September 2026 · Quellenkennung. src-arc-2016-1000-cs29-report

Amtliches öffentliches Dokument Geprüft

Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Case Study 29, “Submissions on behalf of Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Australia & Others (SUBM.1029.001.0001)”

9. November 2015 · pp.1-141 · pars. 5.17-5.18, 9.12-9.19, 9.210-9.216, 9.355-9.359 · Counsel for Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Australia Ltd and the elder witnesses · Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Commonwealth of Australia)

“Jehovah's Witnesses consider that the requirement for two witnesses is not a matter for debate as it is based on Scriptural requirements found in the Mosaic Law and reiterated by Jesus Christ and the Apostle Paul. Even when the requisite Scriptural evidence is lacking, elders nevertheless take precautionary measures.”

Par. 5.18. Par. 9.16: 'when an allegation is made by an adult survivor of child sexual abuse, it is not the right of an organisation to make a report on that adult's behalf unless the adult requests that it be done.' Par. 9.211 compares the two-witness rule to the criminal standard of proof and the hearsay rule. Pars. 9.358-9.359 quote the 1 October 2012 letter to bodies of elders (pars. 11-13) on remaining 'vigilant' and warning parents.

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Hinweis zu Herkunft und Überprüfung

Hinweis zur Vertrauensangabe. Downloaded and text-extracted the 141-page PDF; quotations verbatim. This is the organisation's formal written response to Counsel Assisting's proposed findings.

Herkunft des Scans. New Zealand Abuse in Care Royal Commission evidence library copy of the Australian Royal Commission submission (RC doc ID SUBM.1029.001.0001; NZ ID MSC0500435).

Untermauert durch. src-arc-2016-1000-cs29-report

Notes. The Case Study 29 report (pp. 8-9, 59, 76) summarises and responds to these submissions.

Abgerufen. 19. September 2026 · Quellenkennung. src-wt-subs-2015-1109-royal-commission

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