UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News

By Michael Buchanan
Social affairs correspondent, BBC News

Jehovah’s Witnesses have been severely criticised by the Charity Commission for allowing a convicted sex offender to interrogate his victims.

The commission’s report said the women had endured “inappropriate and demeaning questioning”.
And Jonathan Rose had challenged them during a meeting with Church elders, after he was released from prison.

A Jehovah’s Witness statement said “appropriate restrictions” were imposed on anyone guilty of abuse.

Rose was convicted in 2013 of the historical sexual abuse of two girls, aged five and 10, and sentenced to nine months in prison.