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Dans son rapport final, la Commission royale a recommandé que l'organisation des Témoins de Jéhovah abandonne l'application de la règle des deux témoins dans les affaires portant sur des plaintes pour abus sexuels sur enfant (16.27), révise ses règles afin que des femmes participent à l'enquête sur de telles allégations et à la décision les concernant (16.28), et n'exige plus de ses membres qu'ils évitent ceux qui se dissocient pour des raisons liées au fait d'avoir été victimes d'abus sexuels sur enfant (16.29).

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Constat indépendant · 15 décembre 2017 Étayé

Dans son rapport final, la Commission royale a recommandé que l'organisation des Témoins de Jéhovah abandonne l'application de la règle des deux témoins dans les affaires portant sur des plaintes pour abus sexuels sur enfant (16.27), révise ses règles afin que des femmes participent à l'enquête sur de telles allégations et à la décision les concernant (16.28), et n'exige plus de ses membres qu'ils évitent ceux qui se dissocient pour des raisons liées au fait d'avoir été victimes d'abus sexuels sur enfant (16.29). Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Final Report, Volume 16 Religious institutions, Book 3, 15 décembre 2017Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Case Study 54 (Institutional review of the Jehovah's Witnesses), transcript Day 259, 10 mars 2017ABC News (Australia), 10 mars 2017

Position de l’organisation ou explication ultérieure : Lors de l'audience de mars 2017, l'organisation a déclaré que la règle des deux témoins 'ne peut pas être modifiée ni contournée' et qu'il lui était 'interdit par les Écritures de modifier l'application de la règle des deux témoins' (pp. 26491, 26525). Aucune déclaration publique ultérieure acceptant les points 16.27-16.29 n'a été trouvée.

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Document public officiel Étayé

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 décembre 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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Note de provenance et de vérification

Note sur la fiabilité. 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.

Corroboré par. 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.

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-arc-2017-1215-final-report-vol16-bk3

Document public officiel Étayé

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 mars 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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Note de provenance et de vérification

Note sur la fiabilité. 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.

Provenance de la numérisation. 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.

Corroboré par. 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.

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-arc-2017-0310-cs54-day259-transcript

Presse sérieuse Vérifié

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

10 mars 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.

Source officielle

Note de provenance et de vérification

Note sur la fiabilité. Article opened; quotation confirmed.

Corroboré par. src-arc-2017-0310-cs54-day259-transcript

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-abc-2017-0310-jw-defend-treatment

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