AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
June 22, 2015
Rachel Browne
Social Affairs Reporter
The Jehovah’s Witnesses Church in Australia is the latest religious group to come to the attention of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
The child sex abuse royal commission will hold a public hearing into controversial Christian group the Jehovah’s Witnesses, next month.
The inquiry, to be held in Sydney, will hear from people who were allegedly sexually abused within the Jehovah’s Witnesses Church in Australia.
It will examine how the Jehovah’s Witnesses Church and its company, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Australia, responded to claims of child sexual abuse within the organisation.
A Victorian inquiry into how churches handle child sex abuse claims has previously taken submissions from former Jehovah’s Witnesses who alleged instances of paedophilia, sexual assault, blackmail and death threats.
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