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En su Informe Final, la Comisión Real recomendó que la organización de los testigos de Jehová abandone la aplicación de la regla de los dos testigos en los casos de denuncias de abuso sexual infantil (16.27), revise sus políticas para que haya mujeres que participen en la investigación y en la resolución de esas denuncias (16.28) y deje de exigir a sus miembros que eviten el trato con quienes se desasocian por motivos relacionados con haber sido víctimas de abuso sexual infantil (16.29).

Claim ID claim-safeguarding-final-report-recommendationsConcerns 15 de diciembre de 2017Conclusión independiente
Conclusión independiente · 15 de diciembre de 2017 Respaldado

En su Informe Final, la Comisión Real recomendó que la organización de los testigos de Jehová abandone la aplicación de la regla de los dos testigos en los casos de denuncias de abuso sexual infantil (16.27), revise sus políticas para que haya mujeres que participen en la investigación y en la resolución de esas denuncias (16.28) y deje de exigir a sus miembros que eviten el trato con quienes se desasocian por motivos relacionados con haber sido víctimas de abuso sexual infantil (16.29). Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Final Report, Volume 16 Religious institutions, Book 3, 15 de diciembre de 2017Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Case Study 54 (Institutional review of the Jehovah's Witnesses), transcript Day 259, 10 de marzo de 2017ABC News (Australia), 10 de marzo de 2017

La posición de la organización o su explicación posterior: En la audiencia de marzo de 2017 la organización dijo que la regla de los dos testigos 'no se puede cambiar ni eludir' y que 'las Escrituras le prohíben modificar la aplicación de la regla de los dos testigos' ( pp. 26491, 26525). No se ha localizado ninguna declaración pública posterior en la que acepte los puntos 16.27-16.29.

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Registro público oficial Respaldado

Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Final Report, Volume 16 Religious institutions, Book 3, “Chapter 15 Jehovah's Witnesses; Recommendations 16.27-16.29”

15 de diciembre de 2017 · Recommendations 16.27, 16.28, 16.29 · Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse · Commonwealth of Australia

“abandon its application of the two witness rule in cases involving complaints of child sexual abuse”

Recommendation 16.27 as summarised in the search index of the official site and in secondary sources; 16.28 asks the organisation to revise its policies so that women are involved in processes for investigating and determining allegations of child sexual abuse; 16.29 asks it to no longer require members to shun those who disassociate where the reason relates to their being a victim of child sexual abuse. The Jehovah's Witnesses chapter is chapter 15 of Book 3 (confirmed from the Volume 16 table of contents in Book 2, which was opened).

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Nota de procedencia y verificación

Nota de confianza. Neither the official nor the royalcommission.gov.au copy of Book 3 could be downloaded from this environment (both hosts time out / TLS fails; a Python download was left running). The recommendation wording is consistent across the official site's search snippet, the ABC's 2017 reporting, the Case Study 54 transcript (which describes the recommendations as they stood in the Case Study 29 report) and multiple secondary summaries, and the claims it supports are labelled accordingly.

Corroborado por. src-arc-2016-1000-cs29-report, src-arc-2017-0310-cs54-day259-transcript, src-abc-2017-0310-jw-defend-treatment

Notes. Volume 16 Book 2 (Catholic Church) was downloaded from tjhcouncil.org.au and its contents page confirms Book 3 contains '15 Jehovah's Witnesses'. Final Report presented 15 December 2017.

Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-arc-2017-1215-final-report-vol16-bk3

Registro público oficial Respaldado

Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Case Study 54 (Institutional review of the Jehovah's Witnesses), transcript Day 259, “Evidence of Terrence O'Brien and Rodney Spinks, 10 March 2017”

10 de marzo de 2017 · pp.26486-26574 · pp. 26491-26493, 26500, 26505, 26513, 26524-26525, 26530, 26543 · Transcript produced by DTI · Commonwealth of Australia

“THE CHAIR: Yes. But if there are not two witnesses, you don't accept it, do you? MR O'BRIEN: Because scripturally we're not able to.”

P. 26543:13-16. At p. 26525:17-21 Mr O'Brien confirmed the organisation's response to the recommendation to modify the two-witness rule: 'the two-witness rule is required by the scriptures and can't be changed or avoided ... That's correct. That's our stand.' Counsel Assisting's opening (pp. 26492-26493) said that of 17 allegations received since Case Study 29 the organisation had reported 15 to the authorities, the two exceptions being adult survivors who elected not to report. At p. 26513 Mr O'Brien described the Branch Office practice of instructing elders that where there is a risk to a child 'the matter is to be reported to the police'.

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Nota de procedencia y verificación

Nota de confianza. Official transcript not opened (host unreachable); a complete copy was opened and the central quotation matches the ABC's contemporaneous report. Upgrade to 'verified' once the official PDF is opened.

Procedencia del escaneo. Copy of the DTI transcript (89 pp.) hosted by saysorry.org, a survivor-advocacy (discovery-tier) site; used because the official host was unreachable. Key quotation independently reported by ABC News on the day.

Corroborado por. src-abc-2017-0310-jw-defend-treatment

Notes. Case Study 54 was the follow-up 'institutional review' hearing held on Friday 10 March 2017. The Governing Body did not give evidence at this hearing.

Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-arc-2017-0310-cs54-day259-transcript

Periodismo de prestigio Verificado

ABC News (Australia), “Uniting Church apologises to victims of sexual abuse, Jehovah's Witnesses defend treatment”

10 de marzo de 2017 · Nicole Chettle and Michelle Brown · Australian Broadcasting Corporation

“Because scripturally we're not able to.”

Terrence O'Brien's answer, as reported, when Justice McClellan pressed him on the two-witness rule at the 10 March 2017 hearing. The report also records that of 17 allegations since 2015, 15 were reported to police, and that the US-based hierarchy declined to appear.

Fuente oficial

Nota de procedencia y verificación

Nota de confianza. Article opened; quotation confirmed.

Corroborado por. src-arc-2017-0310-cs54-day259-transcript

Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-abc-2017-0310-jw-defend-treatment

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