Escaping Jehovah's Witnesses: Inside the dangerous world of a brutal religion
Former Jehovah's Witnesses are fighting back against a religion that failed them. They know they'll lose their loved ones for doing so. Few know the extreme nature of the beliefs of the Jehovah's Witnesses, a religious group which boasts eight million followers in multiple nations. They take a strict interpretation of the Bible and predicted the world would meet its ‘wicked end’ in 1914, 1925 and 1975. A US-based Governing Body of eight men sits at the pinnacle of the Jehovah’s Witnesses organisation. Witnesses believe these men are anointed as the voice of God on Earth. Former members reveal the secretive practices used to instil fear and maintain discipline among followers. With strict rules governing every aspect of their lives, these former Witnesses say the organisation is controlling and dangerous. They say it's time to hold the Jehovah's Witnesses to account.
Former Jehovah's Witnesses are fighting back against a religion that failed them. They know they'll lose their loved ones for doing so. Few know the extreme nature of the beliefs of the Jehovah's Witnesses, a religious group which boasts eight million followers in multiple nations. They take a strict interpretation of the Bible and predicted the world would meet its ‘wicked end’ in 1914, 1925 and 1975. A US-based Governing Body of eight men sits at the pinnacle of the Jehovah’s Witnesses organisation. Witnesses believe these men are anointed as the voice of God on Earth. Former members reveal the secretive practices used to instil fear and maintain discipline among followers. With strict rules governing every aspect of their lives, these former Witnesses say the organisation is controlling and dangerous. They say it's time to hold the Jehovah's Witnesses to account.
Brother Daro Weilburg is Spot On! - JW Elders Abusing the Flock - Part 32
As part of our planned series of 1,000 reports of elder abuse in the Jehovah's Witness religion, we are happy to have a new report
from brother Daro Weilburg. Daro has had so many run ins with the evil elders its scary. The important information starts at the 10:25 mark.
These elders will sit in the backroom and ask girls about their intimate sex lives and judge them. If theses girls get kicked out of the religion
their family and JW friends will shun them. Sexual predators are protected by the two witness rule. How many pedophiles have two witnesses?
Go get these dirty "elders" Daro!
Elders Manual:
Jehovah's Witnesses Elders Manual - April 2021 Shepherd The Flock of God book - /drive.google.com/file/d/1wE4PYJ-I8g89j4RlBRiXMoo--fVQ_JXc/view?usp=sharing
As part of our planned series of 1,000 reports of elder abuse in the Jehovah's Witness religion, we are happy to have a new report
from brother Daro Weilburg. Daro has had so many run ins with the evil elders its scary. The important information starts at the 10:25 mark.
These elders will sit in the backroom and ask girls about their intimate sex lives and judge them. If theses girls get kicked out of the religion
their family and JW friends will shun them. Sexual predators are protected by the two witness rule. How many pedophiles have two witnesses?
Go get these dirty "elders" Daro!
Elders Manual:
Jehovah's Witnesses Elders Manual - April 2021 Shepherd The Flock of God book - /drive.google.com/file/d/1wE4PYJ-I8g89j4RlBRiXMoo--fVQ_JXc/view?usp=sharing
Truth Revealed: The Authority of the Jehovah's Witnesses Governing Body is Bogus
The Gentile Times Reconsidered by Carl Olof Jonsson Fourth Edition pdf - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ByDh_AQ8NzHpdMPSeVFPLf_XEZAE2OGj/view?usp=sharing
The Gentile Times Reconsidered by Carl Olof Jonsson Fourth Edition pdf - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ByDh_AQ8NzHpdMPSeVFPLf_XEZAE2OGj/view?usp=sharing
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Judicial Committee Declares Lloyd Evans Not Guilty of all charges!
We just had an emergency Judicial Committee and have found Lloyd Evans to be not guilty of all charges, as there are no two witnesses. We did get Ex Jehovah's Witness Kim Silvio's phone number to help us with our planned trip to Thailand. If its good enough for Lloyd, its good enough for us!
Lets party!
We just had an emergency Judicial Committee and have found Lloyd Evans to be not guilty of all charges, as there are no two witnesses. We did get Ex Jehovah's Witness Kim Silvio's phone number to help us with our planned trip to Thailand. If its good enough for Lloyd, its good enough for us!
Lets party!
Jehovah's Witness Governing Body member Anthony Morris III cracks open a bottle of 12 year old Macallens scotch whiskey celebrating the downfall of Number One JW Apostate Lloyd Evans
Shocking new revelations have come out in the last 24 hours about the Jehovah's Witness Number One Apostate Lloyd Evans. These allegations need to be proved or disproved. The Jehovah's Witnesses Bethel family in Warwick, New York were informed at morning worship that the number one apostate had been sidelined by the Holy Spirit. Copies of Lloyd Evan's confessional video have made the rounds of the Jehovah's Witnesses Governing Body. In the meantime, we hear Lloyd has a new theme song.
Hey Lloyd: Thailand is calling!
Shocking new revelations have come out in the last 24 hours about the Jehovah's Witness Number One Apostate Lloyd Evans. These allegations need to be proved or disproved. The Jehovah's Witnesses Bethel family in Warwick, New York were informed at morning worship that the number one apostate had been sidelined by the Holy Spirit. Copies of Lloyd Evan's confessional video have made the rounds of the Jehovah's Witnesses Governing Body. In the meantime, we hear Lloyd has a new theme song.
Hey Lloyd: Thailand is calling!
Lloyd Evans gets SMOKED!! Is the Ex Jehovah's Witness Community FINISHED!?
I NEVER make comments/videos about other Ex Jehovah's Witness, but THIS is a scandal that has rocked the very core of the ExJw community, and simply remaining silent is NOT AN OPTION!!! I cannot pretend as if I haven't seen the DAMAGE this dude has caused all the honest-hearted truth-seekers out there just trying to grasp onto some semblance of decency and normalcy. This one is for the people. The jury has spoken. He must be dealt with.
Brother Daro Weilburg is Spot On! - JW Elders Abusing the Flock - Part 33
Jehovah's Witnesses elders may go to prison for not reporting sexual abuse to a 6 year old child in Illinois.
The Witness headquarters in New York gave the elders some bad advice. Why do they continue to protect
child molesters?
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES ELDERS GUILTY OF FAILING TO REPORT SEXUAL ABUSE OF 6-YEAR-OLD
CHILD
Elders face up to one year of jail time at sentencing March 25
By Amanda Marrazzo
March 18, 2022 at 9:19 pm CDT
McHenry County State's Attorney's Office prosecutor Ashur Youash speaks during a hearing for defendants Colin Scott, left, and
Michael Penkava, center, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, at the Michael J. Sullivan Judicial Center in Woodstock.
McHenry County State's Attorney's Office prosecutor Ashur Youash speaks during a hearing for defendants Colin Scott, left, and
Michael Penkava, center, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, at the Michael J. Sullivan Judicial Center in Woodstock. (Patrick Kunzer for
Shaw Local)
A McHenry County judge ruled Friday that two Jehovah’s Witnesses elders are guilty of “knowingly and willingly” failing to
report to authorities in 2006 that a 6-year-old child in their church was being sexually assaulted by a congregant.
Not reporting the sexual abuse permitted the abuse to go on for another 12 years.
The ruling follows two years of hearings and a bench trial before McHenry County Judge Mark Gerhardt in a case stemming
from the 2019 conviction of Arturo Hernandez-Pedraza.
Hernandez-Pedraza, 44, a church congregant, was convicted of sexual assault and other crimes related to the girl’s ongoing
sexual abuse. Neither police nor the Department of Children and Family Services were notified until the victim was 18 years old,
when she told church elders that the abuse continued.
The girl endured countless sexual assaults and death threats by her abuser throughout her childhood, according to trial testimony.
Hernandez-Pedraza is serving 45 years in prison.
On Friday, the church elders, Michael Penkava, 72, and Colin Scott, 88, were found guilty of Class A criminal misdemeanor for
violating provisions of the state’s mandatory reporter law. They each face up to one year in jail when sentenced March 25.
Defense attorneys argued that the elders were not mandated reporters. They maintained that Hernandez-Pedraza’s confession, as
well as statements made by the child and another church member, were protected under clergy-penitent privilege.
Anything they heard related to the child’s abuse fell under the protection of the confessional process, in the same way a
confession made inside a confessional booth in the Roman Catholic Church would, defense attorneys maintained. Gerhardt
considered the child’s and the other church member’s statements in his ruling but not the confession made by Hernandez-
Pedraza.
Rather than call authorities, Penkava, as he was trained to do as a church elder, said he sought the advice of attorneys at the
Jehovah’s Witnesses world headquarters in New York. The abuse was handled through “spiritual guidance,” as was directed by
the Jehovah’s Witnesses attorneys.
Scott, who participated in the bench trial via Zoom and did not testify, was part of the three-person judicial committee formed the
day after Penkava learned of the abuse. His attorney, Terry Ekl, said he was not part of the decision to not call police.
Scott became involved in the days that followed and participated in “spiritual guidance.”
Under questioning Friday by McHenry County State’s Attorney Patrick Kenneally, Penkava testified that he made the phone call
to headquarters but did not know who he spoke to or what their qualifications were as an attorney. But, he said, this person
advised that he was not required to report the abuse and he trusted that advice, he said.
In closing arguments, Kenneally said under Illinois law Penkava and Scott are mandated reporters despite their claims they are
not.
This case is the reason for which the statute was written, “to stop this in 2006,” Kenneally said.
It was “extremely irresponsible” of Penkava to take advice regarding the protection of a 6-year-old child from someone over the
phone, in another state, not even knowing who he was talking to or what their qualifications were, Kenneally said.
“It was ignorance born out of carelessness, their own recklessness and stupidity,” Kenneally said.
If they decide to put themselves in charge of the well-being of a 6-year-old child, “then they better act responsibly,” he said.
“The purpose of the clergy-penitent [privilege] is to shield the flock and not protect the devil,” Kenneally said, adding that what
they did protected Hernandez-Pedraza.
The girl and the other church member “already paid the price for [Penkava and Scott] not following the law; now it’s their turn,”
Kenneally said.
Assistant State’s Attorney Ashur Youash said the elders knew the girl was an abused child and their defense “went from privilege
to bad legal advice.”
He said the mandatory reporting statute is not to protect the church but “to protect a child, to protect an abused child. How absurd
would it be to allow a church to cloak itself and avoid state law?” Youash said.
In his ruling, Gerhardt said Penkava’s testimony “was not credible” and ruled that the elders are considered mandated reporters.
“The defendants had an obligation to report [the abuse] whether or not clergy-penitent privilege trumped that,” Gerhardt said.
“The defendants chose not to contact DCFS knowingly and willingly.”
Jehovah's Witnesses elders may go to prison for not reporting sexual abuse to a 6 year old child in Illinois.
The Witness headquarters in New York gave the elders some bad advice. Why do they continue to protect
child molesters?
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES ELDERS GUILTY OF FAILING TO REPORT SEXUAL ABUSE OF 6-YEAR-OLD
CHILD
Elders face up to one year of jail time at sentencing March 25
By Amanda Marrazzo
March 18, 2022 at 9:19 pm CDT
McHenry County State's Attorney's Office prosecutor Ashur Youash speaks during a hearing for defendants Colin Scott, left, and
Michael Penkava, center, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, at the Michael J. Sullivan Judicial Center in Woodstock.
McHenry County State's Attorney's Office prosecutor Ashur Youash speaks during a hearing for defendants Colin Scott, left, and
Michael Penkava, center, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, at the Michael J. Sullivan Judicial Center in Woodstock. (Patrick Kunzer for
Shaw Local)
A McHenry County judge ruled Friday that two Jehovah’s Witnesses elders are guilty of “knowingly and willingly” failing to
report to authorities in 2006 that a 6-year-old child in their church was being sexually assaulted by a congregant.
Not reporting the sexual abuse permitted the abuse to go on for another 12 years.
The ruling follows two years of hearings and a bench trial before McHenry County Judge Mark Gerhardt in a case stemming
from the 2019 conviction of Arturo Hernandez-Pedraza.
Hernandez-Pedraza, 44, a church congregant, was convicted of sexual assault and other crimes related to the girl’s ongoing
sexual abuse. Neither police nor the Department of Children and Family Services were notified until the victim was 18 years old,
when she told church elders that the abuse continued.
The girl endured countless sexual assaults and death threats by her abuser throughout her childhood, according to trial testimony.
Hernandez-Pedraza is serving 45 years in prison.
On Friday, the church elders, Michael Penkava, 72, and Colin Scott, 88, were found guilty of Class A criminal misdemeanor for
violating provisions of the state’s mandatory reporter law. They each face up to one year in jail when sentenced March 25.
Defense attorneys argued that the elders were not mandated reporters. They maintained that Hernandez-Pedraza’s confession, as
well as statements made by the child and another church member, were protected under clergy-penitent privilege.
Anything they heard related to the child’s abuse fell under the protection of the confessional process, in the same way a
confession made inside a confessional booth in the Roman Catholic Church would, defense attorneys maintained. Gerhardt
considered the child’s and the other church member’s statements in his ruling but not the confession made by Hernandez-
Pedraza.
Rather than call authorities, Penkava, as he was trained to do as a church elder, said he sought the advice of attorneys at the
Jehovah’s Witnesses world headquarters in New York. The abuse was handled through “spiritual guidance,” as was directed by
the Jehovah’s Witnesses attorneys.
Scott, who participated in the bench trial via Zoom and did not testify, was part of the three-person judicial committee formed the
day after Penkava learned of the abuse. His attorney, Terry Ekl, said he was not part of the decision to not call police.
Scott became involved in the days that followed and participated in “spiritual guidance.”
Under questioning Friday by McHenry County State’s Attorney Patrick Kenneally, Penkava testified that he made the phone call
to headquarters but did not know who he spoke to or what their qualifications were as an attorney. But, he said, this person
advised that he was not required to report the abuse and he trusted that advice, he said.
In closing arguments, Kenneally said under Illinois law Penkava and Scott are mandated reporters despite their claims they are
not.
This case is the reason for which the statute was written, “to stop this in 2006,” Kenneally said.
It was “extremely irresponsible” of Penkava to take advice regarding the protection of a 6-year-old child from someone over the
phone, in another state, not even knowing who he was talking to or what their qualifications were, Kenneally said.
“It was ignorance born out of carelessness, their own recklessness and stupidity,” Kenneally said.
If they decide to put themselves in charge of the well-being of a 6-year-old child, “then they better act responsibly,” he said.
“The purpose of the clergy-penitent [privilege] is to shield the flock and not protect the devil,” Kenneally said, adding that what
they did protected Hernandez-Pedraza.
The girl and the other church member “already paid the price for [Penkava and Scott] not following the law; now it’s their turn,”
Kenneally said.
Assistant State’s Attorney Ashur Youash said the elders knew the girl was an abused child and their defense “went from privilege
to bad legal advice.”
He said the mandatory reporting statute is not to protect the church but “to protect a child, to protect an abused child. How absurd
would it be to allow a church to cloak itself and avoid state law?” Youash said.
In his ruling, Gerhardt said Penkava’s testimony “was not credible” and ruled that the elders are considered mandated reporters.
“The defendants had an obligation to report [the abuse] whether or not clergy-penitent privilege trumped that,” Gerhardt said.
“The defendants chose not to contact DCFS knowingly and willingly.”
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'An Absolute Disaster': Southern Baptist Sex Abuse Report Rattles Community
Theologian Dr. Russell Moore joins Morning Joe to discuss a new report detailing decades of sexual abuse allegations and cover up from the Southern Baptist Convention, and he discusses calling for an investigation into abuse allegations while working at the SBC.The Fraud and Mind Control of the Cult of Scientology
Learn how this cult uses fraud and mind control to manipulate people in giving them all their money and taking control of their lives. Follow the path of me, Brian Sheen, who after achieving some of the highest levels they offered and having an opportunity to work with Hubbard aboard his Flag ship in 1974, left and withdrew as I found the organization didn't deliver what it promised. Yet unbeknownst to me, I was kept in an hypnotic state for 45 years before I awakened to discover the massive fraud and mind control I had become a victim of. This wake up call sadly ripped apart my family because of this cults policy of disconnection,which wasn't used while he was involved. Since this video came out I found out my daughter had a grandchild. I never even knew she was pregnant! What is worse is how this process keeps an individual in a perpetual state of fear and causes a breakdown of their biological system sending unhealthy inner pharmacy prescriptions to their body that predisposes them to illness and disease. THIS is science and not Scientology bullshit that they hide from their followers. Disconnection helps make their members sick,weak and in a constant state of fear that they could be declared an SP next.
