UNITED STATES
adamhorowitzlaw.com (law firm blog)
March 15, 2020
Now it’s the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Maybe soon it will be the Baptists. We say: Bring it on!
Pennsylvania’s Attorney General has announced a new investigation into Jehovah’s Witnesses clergy sex crimes and cover ups. Activists are urging Missouri’s attorney general to launch a probe into Baptist clergy abuse and cover up.
Pennsylvania opens grand jury investigation into Jehovah’s Witnesses’ cover-up of child sex abuse
Again, we welcome these moves. For decades, law enforcement officials have tended to pursue smaller, easier cases against less influential and unpopular defendants. And their reluctance to believe that widely-respected officials would tolerate or enable heinous crimes, and then conceal them, proved problematic too.
Finally, that mindset is beginning to change.
In 2002, the first formal law enforcement probes into Catholic officials and their cover ups began. But there’s no question that child molesting clerics seek out and can be found in every religious group.
(A terrific list of grand jury investigations into church groups can be found here: http://www.bishop-accountability.org/AtAGlance/reports.htm)
“But why focus just on churches?” some believers and religious officials complain. “Why single us out?”
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