Is religion doing enough to root out abuse?

From when Karen Morgan was 12, until she was well into her teens, she was sexually abused by her uncle - a ministerial servant with the Jehovah's Witnesses.He would go upstairs, on the premise that he was saying a prayer with his niece, then sexually abuse her.Now in her 30s, Karen wasn't understood when she first told her parents what her uncle, Mark Sewell, was doing.Sewell was also the son of a trusted older member of the local Jehovah's Witnesses congregation, known as an elder. Christian churches, as well as other religions, have faced claims of child abuse.

But what is striking about the Jehovah's Witnesses is their explicit policy of dealing with abuse in-house.
Because of their practice of following the Bible literally, they insist there must be two witnesses to a crime, often not the case in child abuse cases.However, in Karen's case a second witness did come forward: Wendy, a family friend and fellow member of the Barry congregation in south Wales. She had been raped by the same man.When she reported the crime to elders, Wendy was made to describe it in minute detail to a group of older men.Later, she had to give her account again in the same room as Sewell.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33609927

nope
it is law
if they know about it and fail to report it, charge them with assisting in a crime
Conspiracy etc
put them in jail too, sky giant believers have to learn their make believe bullshit does not in anyway affect the requirements of law

veya_victaous wrote:nope
it is law
if they know about it and fail to report it, charge them with assisting in a crime
Conspiracy etc
put them in jail too, sky giant believers have to learn their make believe bullshit does not in anyway affect the requirements of law

For once I agree 100%, but the problem is many of this crimes go unreported Veya.

yes
so when they are, like this case, that the Parents have willfully ignored the abuse Punish them too.

I don't think there is statute of limitation of child abuse.

veya_victaous wrote:yes
so when they are, like this case, that the Parents have willfully ignored the abuse Punish them too.

I don't think there is statute of limitation of child abuse.

Agreed, the parents should also be convicted for child abuse.
It just astounds me that people would allow such abuse to happen by placing a belief system more important than their own children.

well this pope seems to be doing more than has been done in the past
and why i respect him immensely