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Protection des mineurs · Claim record

Parce que seuls des hommes peuvent servir comme anciens, toutes les décisions prises dans la procédure interne de l'organisation quant à la réalité d'un abus sexuel sur enfant le sont par des hommes ; la Commission royale y a vu 'un défaut fondamental' qui 'accroît le risque d'une nouvelle traumatisation de la survivante', et l'IICSA a relevé que certaines femmes 'peuvent trouver impossible d'aborder de telles questions avec un homme'.

Claim ID claim-safeguarding-women-excluded-from-decisionsConcerns octobre 2016Constat indépendant
Constat indépendant · octobre 2016 Vérifié

Parce que seuls des hommes peuvent servir comme anciens, toutes les décisions prises dans la procédure interne de l'organisation quant à la réalité d'un abus sexuel sur enfant le sont par des hommes ; la Commission royale y a vu 'un défaut fondamental' qui 'accroît le risque d'une nouvelle traumatisation de la survivante', et l'IICSA a relevé que certaines femmes 'peuvent trouver impossible d'aborder de telles questions avec un homme'. Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, octobre 2016Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), 2 septembre 2021

Position de l’organisation ou explication ultérieure : M. Jackson a déclaré que la prise de décision 'repose sur le principe de l'autorité... selon lequel, scripturairement, ce sont les hommes qui prennent les décisions finales', mais que deux femmes proches d'une victime peuvent recueillir son témoignage et le transmettre aux anciens (p. 67). La politique publique actuelle indique que les victimes peuvent être accompagnées par 'une personne de confiance de l'un ou l'autre sexe' (par. 12).

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Document public officiel Vérifié

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”

octobre 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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Note sur la fiabilité. 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.

Provenance de la numérisation. 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.

Corroboré par. 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.

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-arc-2016-1000-cs29-report

Document public officiel Vérifié

Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), “Child protection in religious organisations and settings: Investigation Report”

2 septembre 2021 · pp.Part B para 15.4 (p. 15); Part D paras 19-21 (pp. 42-43); Part E paras 6.3-7 (pp. 65-66); Part F para 17 (pp. 91-92); Part H para 25 (p. 113) · Part H.1 para 25 · Professor Alexis Jay OBE (Chair) and Panel · Crown copyright (HC 705)

“The rule is not intended to be a safeguarding measure. Nevertheless, it has no place in any response to child sexual abuse and fails to reflect the reality that by its very nature child sexual abuse is most often perpetrated in the absence of witnesses. ... As it presently operates, the Jehovah's Witnesses internal disciplinary process for disfellowshipping members bears no relationship to how sexual crime happens. The continuing use of this rule shows a disregard of the seriousness of the crimes involved and their impact on individuals. It also lacks compassion for the victim, and serves to protect the perpetrator.”

Part H.1 Conclusions, para 25 (p. 113). Part B para 15.4: over 131,700 members in England and Wales; records showed allegations concerning 67 individuals reported to the Branch Office in the previous ten years, including 25 against elders and 32 against ministerial servants. Part D para 19 lists the four core policy documents (2018 public statement; Watchtower May 2019; Shepherd the Flock of God; Guidelines for Branch Office Service Desks) and notes that the two documents that explain how to refer matters to statutory authorities 'are not circulated to members of the congregation'. Part E para 6.4: the Service Department 'does not make reports to the statutory authorities'. Part E para 7: Lancashire County Council v E & F [2020] EWHC 182 (Fam) — elders told in 2016, police not informed until July 2019; Lieven J spoke of 'very great concern about the safeguarding of children within the Jehovah's Witness community'. Part F para 17: the Charity Commission's Harvey Grenville called the level of legal challenge 'simply unprecedented'.

Source officielle Numérisation de l’original

Note de provenance et de vérification

Note sur la fiabilité. gov.uk PDF downloaded and text-extracted; all quotations verbatim with printed page numbers. iicsa.org.uk HTML pages returned 403 to automated fetch.

Provenance de la numérisation. gov.uk copy of the report (224-page PDF). Printed page numbers are 14 lower than PDF page numbers.

Corroboré par. src-cc-2023-0804-watch-tower-inquiry-report

Notes. Published 2 September 2021 after 16 hearing days in 2020. IICSA made two recommendations (policy/training; unregistered educational settings); neither is JW-specific.

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-iicsa-2021-0902-religious-organisations-report

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