VERMONT
Rutland Herald
By Neal P. Goswami
VERMONT PRESS BUREAU | October 01,2014
BURLINGTON — Two sisters are suing a Vermont congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses, its parent organization and a congregation official, alleging sexual abuse about 20 years ago.
Annessa Lewis, 27, and Miranda Lewis, 23, say they were abused as children by Norton True, who was serving as a “ministerial servant” for the Bellows Falls Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses. The suit also names as a defendant the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, the governing body of the congregation.
Miranda Lewis and her mother, Marina Mauvoleon-Folsom, attended a Burlington news conference Tuesday with two attorneys to announce the lawsuits.
The sisters are represented by Irwin Zalkin of The Zalkin Law Firm in San Diego and New York City, and Jerome O’Neill of Gravel & Shea PC in Burlington. O’Neill is known for winning millions in sexual abuse judgments against Vermont’s Roman Catholic diocese.
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