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Church faces abuse complaints Jehovah's Witness policy: Address issues internally By ANNMARIE TIMMINS Monitor staff November 22. 2004 8:15AM When Sara Poission suspected her husband was abusing their daughters 20 years ago, she took her fears to the leaders of her Jehovah's Witness congregation in Wilton. Poisson regrets deeply that she followed the advice she says she received: Pray more, be a better wife and keep quiet. "I was a puppet," said Poisson, now of Claremont. "It was 'God says you are a screw-up, so fix yourself and it will stop.'" The church never reported Poisson's former husband, Paul Berry,...

4 say Jehovah's Witness church hid crime; man a convicted child molester February 19, 2004 By STEVE HART THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Four former members of the Jehovah's Witnesses have filed a lawsuit in Superior Court, contending they were sexually abused by a church official in Sonoma County during the 1980s and the church covered up the crime. The lawsuit names two Sonoma County congregations of the Jehovah's Witnesses and Donald L. Glew, a former church member who was convicted in 1989 of four counts of child molestation. Glew, now 52, was sentenced to 14 years in prison. According to the...