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  • Jehovah's Witnesses Settle 9 Lawsuits Over Men who Sexually Abused Children

    11/22/2007 8:57:57 AM PST · by hawkaw · 5 replies · 72+ views
    NBC ^ | November 21, 2007 | Lisa Myers
    Frederick McLean is one of the most-wanted fugitives in the United States, charged with 17 counts of child sexual abuse in California. Law enforcement sources say that when a victim’s family confronted McLean in 2004, he allegedly confessed. But before he could be arrested, McLean fled. Snip His role in the church also became a matter of legal controversy. Last year, some victims’ families filed suit against the Jehovah’s Witnesses, alleging that both McLean’s local congregation and the church’s national headquarters, the Watchtower Society, “knew, or should have known, that Frederick McLean was a pedophile.” Snip The Jehovah's Witnesses recently...