UNITED KINGDOM
Yellow Advertiser
EXCLUSIVE by Charles Thomson
A JUDGE has criticised a Christian church for its handling of a child abuse allegation during the 1970s.
A hearing at Basildon Crown Court last week revealed that ‘elders’ of the Jehovah’s Witnesses knew a teenage member had molested a child.
Although the church imposed sanctions, it did not notify police and the man went on to molest another young girl during his mid 20s.
Barry Snow, 51, of St Lawrence Gardens, in Leigh-on-Sea, was convicted of nine counts of sexual abuse alleged to have taken place between the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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