Posted on 09/10/2012 11:30:44 PM PDT by Cronos
Jehovah's Witnesses, Hells Angels, Serial Killers, Dissociative Identity Disorder and a 14-year-old Run-Away is the author's response to the crippling experience she says began with the Jehovah's Witnesses in 1983 and continues to this day.
The victim of a sexual assault by a complete stranger at the age of 13, she writes that she was disfellowshipped the following year for having a defiant attitude and ostracized from her entire family system--though she was not a baptized member. Her young life quickly fell into wide-spread disarray and dysfunction as depression and mental illness, addiction and abusive relationships became her tragic way of life.
Three decades later, she is diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (a severe and persistent psychiatric disorder) while facing her second divorce and second bankruptcy. A workplace assault in 2009 sets the stage for a long, debilitating fight for compensation and rights until, finally, she receives official designation as a Person with a Disability. Since that time, she has struggled daily to regain her grasp on life and to complete her memoir, a story she will fight to tell. With alarming detail, Adele R. Fors reveals the complex internal architecture of this well-known religious movement that allows for the systematic control and regulation of devotees, including her own family members. Through her own devastating experience, Adele R. Fors hopes to bring clarity, awareness and understanding to the unfolding crisis of trust being experienced by the world-wide association of Jehovah's Witnesses as they face their first defeat in a court of law for failure to adequately protect a child sex abuse victim from continued attacks at the hands of her abuser, a sex offender-known to congregation elders and a member in good-standing within the North Fremont, California, USA congregation between 1995/96 (see Superior Court of California, County of Alameda, USA, Jury Verdict: HG115588324, Date: 06/13/2012).
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I dated a Jehovah Witness once in high school, it didn’t last long, but I did go to one of their services.
I have never heard the JW connected with child abuse, and this article doesn’t really say that either.
What is a quick description of that?
it seems that there is a big cover-up by the Jehovah’s Witnesses about this as well as money-laundering. Makes you wonder what else the Watchtower doesn’t tell you about, eh?
Never been to one — what was it like?
I barely remember, but it was a modest one room building, and nothing stood out about, like Mormons, they are a well dressed, pleasant in appearance people.
I didn’t get through the service and took her brother out to my car where we worked on a bottle of vodka.
I can’t tell you what she saw when I took her to my house, but she figured out that I wasn’t good Witness material, for one thing being in high school and living on my own did not strike her as a good recomendation.
The Jehovah’s Witness cult of child molesting is being dismantled, slowly but surely.
Contrary to what many people teach their children, life is not a bed of roses but most people takes their hard knocks which they mostly give them selves and get on with life.
This woman did,nt.
Having read the salient parts of the trial transcript I think I can comment on the case.
No evidence was ever presented to show Conti was ever molested as she claimed and in fact her parents’ testimony contradicts hers.
She claimed her molester took her to his home from meetings she attended alone when she was nine years old and up.
Since there are no separate programs or facilities for youths or children an unattended child would be noticed and draw an inquiry particularly over the span of a couple of years.
No wonder this bogus story of negligence is being appealed.
No evidence was ever presented to show Conti was ever molested as she claimed and in fact her parents’ testimony contradicts hers.
On the other hand if she waited years to report it they should have just thrown it out of court.
She is 26 now and no charges were brought involving abuse of Conti.
No one testified that they saw Conti alone with the accused at any time or having any kind of physical contact.
The JW’s do not have summer camps or special youth programs where an adult has oversight of several children or offer some kind of child care services so all the time Conti was at meetings she was either there with a parent or at the least surrounded by other adults.
Hence she claims the accused took her to his home again and again over a period of two years.
But again this is a civil suit and what she claims is negligence on the part of the WTBS.
Three decades later, she is diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (a severe and persistent psychiatric disorder) while facing her second divorce and second bankruptcy.
Conti’s mother said in court transcripts that her daughter Candance, reported this to the mother in 2003 which would have Candance 17-18 years old, several years after the supposed incident.
The mother had had her own problems, being separated from her husband and being an abuser of drugs and alcohol in the past.
She did however contradict Candance’s statement that Candance as a 9 year old was ever left off at meetings without one or the other parents attending with her and indeed an unaccompanied young child would stand out.
That two different women were the subject of the blog’s discussion should have been made clear.
That two different women were the subject of the blog’s discussion should have been made clear.
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