Former Jehovah's Witnesses protest outside convention in Reading

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The activists accuse the denomination, which has been holding meetings in the city, of silencing abuse victims.


READING, PA — One moment Martin Haugh's daughter, 4, was at his side, the next moment, she no longer was there.

"I looked down and my daughter was gone," he said of that day in 2005.

It took just a few minutes for Haugh to find her behind a large potted plant in the lobby of the Jehovah's Witnesses Kingdom Hall in Red Lion, York County.

He said those few minutes were enough for a pedophile to abuse the girl.

Haugh, 41, and his wife, Jennifer, 43, were among a group of former Jehovah's Witnesses who gathered Sunday outside the Santander Arena.

Read more: http://www.readingeagle.com/news/article/former-jehovahs-witnesses-protest-outside-convention-in-reading

[2naSalit]

1. Organized.religion.

Never touch the stuff, I hear it's bad for one's health.

[Freddie]

2. They also practice shunning

Like the Scientologists. If you leave the religion you are dead to them, even your family.
And very sexist with rigid gender roles. Growing up my parents were friends with a JW couple and I would often babysit their kids. The 2 girls were very bright kids and the parents would not ALLOW them to go to college because “there’s no need for girls to get an education.” They both stayed local, got retail jobs and married “in the fold” but neither of them ever had kids.