Jehovah’s Witnesses face £1m legal bill after young girl was sexually abused by one of its members

UNITED KINGDOM
Leicester Mercury

The Jehovah’s Witnesses face a million-pound legal bill after a young girl was sexually abused by one of its members.

The victim, now aged in her 20s, was molested by an elder, or “ministerial servant”, Peter Stewart, over a five-year period in Loughborough in the 1980s and ’90s, London’s High Court heard.

Last year, a judge ordered the organisation to pay £275,000 compensation to the victim or failing to protect her or to warn other parents about Stewart.

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