En clair c'est la Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.qui s'est rétamé la gueule.... enfin une victime qui n'a pas accepté l'accord financier de ces délinquants de la Watchtower. le communiqué de presse de l'avocat:
"OAKLAND JURY HOLDS JEHOVAH WITNESSES RESPONSIBLE FOR SEXUAL ABUSE OF
FREMONT CHILD
An Alameda County Superior Court jury has found the Jehovah’s Witnesses
legally responsible for the sexual abuse of a 9 year old former Fremont
girl. The verdict, announced Wednesday June 13, found that the Elders who
managed the North Fremont Jehovah’s Witness Congregation in the 1990s knew
perpetrator Jonathan Kendrick had sexually molested another child, but
kept his child abuse secret from the parents and families with children in
the Congregation. Kendrick went on to repeatedly sexually molest Candace
Conti, now 26, over a two year period, using Jehovah Witnesses activities
such as door to door neighborhood soliciting as his way to secretly gain
control over his young victim. Kendrick was eventually convicted in 2004
of the sexual abuse of another young girl, and is now a Registered Sex
Offender in California.
The key issue in the case, according to the victim’s attorney Rick Simons
of Hayward, was the written policy of Watchtower New York, Inc., which
instructed all Elders in Jehovah’s Witnesses Congregations in the United
States to keep reports of child sex abusers within Jehovah’s Witnesses
secret to avoid lawsuits. The case is believed to be the first in the
nation to directly address the policy of secrecy, adopted in 1989, and
still in force today.
Ms. Conti stated “I once wanted to be the best Jehovah’s Witness I could
be. Now I feel I’m doing more to help other children in Jehovah’s
Witnesses than I ever did walking door to door to spread the ‘good news’.
The jury awarded $7 million dollars in damages, and will return Thursday
to deliberate on whether or not punitive damages should be awarded.
Candace Conti spent 2 years trying to convince the Jehovah’s Witnesses,
both in Southern California and in Fremont, to change the secrecy policy,
but finally gave up and filed her lawsuit in 2011. “This young woman, who
experienced brutal abuse as a child, could not tell anyone for several
years, and has walked for many years in a nightmare of depression and
isolation, has shown incredible courage in facing the powerful and secrecy
laden organization that betrayed her into the hands of a monster” said Mr.
Simons of his client.
The verdict came in the courtroom of Judge Robert McGuiness in Dept. 22,
Oakland.
For more information contact:
Rick Simons: text and cell 510-917-2169/
rick@fjslaw.com/ office
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Domain Web case #: HG11558324 (Jane Doe v. Watchtower Bible and Tract
Society of New York, Inc.)
UPDATE; OAKLAND JURY ADDS $21 MILLION DOLLARS IN PUNTIVE DAMAGES TO
JEHOVAH’S WITNESS CHILD SEX ABUSE CASE. The Oakland jury which found on
Wednesday that the Jehovah’s Witnesses were responsible for the repeated
sexual molestation of a then 9 and 10 year old girl has added an award of
$21,000,001 in punitive damages against Watchtower Bible and Tract
Society of New York, Inc. The case is the first in the nation to expose
the formerly secret written policy of watchtower, in place since 1989,
which required all elders to keep the identities of known child abusers
in its Congregations secret from parents and other members. The policy
allowed Candace Conti to be abused by North Fremont Congregation member
Jonathan Kendrick soon after he was known by the elders to have sexually
abused another girl. Contact: Attorney Rick Simons 510-917-2169
(cell) 510-582-1080 (office) > Rick Simons
rick@fjslaw.com"