AUSTRALIA
Sky News
Two senior members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Australia will face a royal commission that found the organisation does not adequately protect children from being sexually abused.
The Jehovah’s Witnesses maintain they act on any allegation of child sex abuse, despite the child abuse royal commission finding they have not reported a single one of 1006 alleged perpetrators to police.
Its November 2016 report said the organisation wrongly relies on a two-witness rule with 2000-year-old biblical origins when handling complaints.
The commission will on Friday again hear from Jehovah’s Witness Australian branch committee member Terrence O’Brien and Rodney Spinks, who advises church elders on how to handle child sex abuse cases.
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