A Policy That Insures Failure: The Response of the Jehovah's Witnesses to Child Sexual Abuse

Abstract

ABSTRACT Based on my experience preparing to be an expert witness in a case involving child sexual abuse in a Jehovah's Witnesses congregation, I offer reflections on the problems inherent to policies that require witnesses to abuse, and draw upon material published by the Jehovah's Witnesses to indicate why such policies would be misguided.