A Comissão Real australiana concluiu, em outubro de 2016, que o ostracismo é 'an inextricable component of the institutional response to child sexual abuse', que a prática 'has the very real potential of putting a survivor in the untenable position' de escolher entre compartilhar uma comunidade com o agressor e perder essa comunidade, que ela 'makes it extremely difficult for a person to leave', e incluiu a política entre as práticas problemáticas da organização; o membro do Corpo Governante Geoffrey Jackson havia declarado que sair pode ser 'personally devastating'.

Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Australia), 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, “Section 7.7 Shunning; summary of problematic policies (p. 13)”

outubro de 2016 · pp.13, 70-72 · section 7.7; endnotes 618-636 · Commonwealth of Australia (ISBN 978-1-925289-89-3, CC BY 3.0 AU)

“The Jehovah’s Witness organisation’s practice of shunning members who disassociate from the organisation has the very real potential of putting a survivor in the untenable position of having to choose between constant re-traumatisation at having to share a community with their abuser and losing that entire community altogether.”

Also: 'Even family members are instructed not to associate with a disfellowshipped or disassociated relative unless the association is unavoidable'; 'the practice of shunning is an inextricable component of the institutional response to child sexual abuse'; the organisation's submission that shunning was outside the terms of reference was rejected; Governing Body member Geoffrey Jackson's evidence (14 Aug 2015) that leaving can be 'personally devastating because [a person] can lose their whole social network and their families'; p. 13 lists 'the organisation has a policy and practice of shunning those who wish to leave the organisation' among problematic policies.

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