-Caveat Lector- this may be heavy for survivors
Ousted Members Contend Jehovah's Witnesses' Abuse Policy Hides Offenses By Laurie Goodstein "But when Mr. Bowen contacted the church's headquarters in Brooklyn, he says, he was rebuffed. Frustrated by the church's inaction and by its confidentiality provisions, which he said prevented him from sharing the information with others, Mr. Bowen resigned as an elder in December 2000. A year later, he started a group to monitor child sexual abuse in the church. Late last month, Mr. Bowen, 44, was excommunicated from the church....found him guilty of "causing divisions." The punishment was "disfellowshiping" — complete shunning. In the past three months, four other people have been expelled from the Jehovah's Witnesses after accusing it of covering up the sexual abuse of children by its members. For Mr. Bowen and other critics of church policies on sexual abuse, the expulsions are part of a concerted effort to keep such abuses quiet." http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/11/national/11WITN.html?tntemail1 Children removed in Web porn ring bust - Washington (Reuters) -- U.S. and European law-enforcement officials have arrested 20 people who sexually abused their own children and traded photographs and tips over the Internet, the U.S. Customs Service said on Friday. The cross-border sweep removed 45 children from their abusive parents, 37 of them in the United States, Customs said. Authorities say the parents traded photos of themselves sexually abusing their own children and shared tips in online chat rooms. Http://www.emailthis.clickability.com/et/emailThis?clickMap=viewThis&etMailToI D=1468075203&pt=Y from L. Moss-Sharman Parents held in child-porn ring Alleged leader Fresno chiropractor - Bill Wallace 8/10/02 "Federal officials said Friday they had broken up an international child pornography ring, headquartered in Fresno County, in which parents molested their own children and traded pictures of that activity over the Internet. " http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/08/10/M N152834.DTL CIA Scientist Frank Olson - from All Things Considered, 8/7/02 "In 1953, Frank Olson, a CIA scientist involved in biological and mind-control experiments, died under mysterious circumstances. In 1975, Preisdent Ford apologized to the Olson family and paid them $750,000 after admitting that days before Olson's death, the CIA fed him LSD without his knowledge as a part of an experiment. NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says that White House documents from 1975 suggest that the government settled the case to prevent the disclosure of very sensitive information concerning Frank Olson's work at the CIA." http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/segment_display.cfm?segID=147964 <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
