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Napa Valley Register
Saturday, February 5, 2005
By DAVID RYAN
Register Staff Writer
A stack of child molestation cases filed against the Jehovah's Witnesses is due to shrink.
Lawyers representing individuals suing Jehovah's Witness organizations said Friday they would move next week to dismiss eight Sonoma County plaintiffs they believe are more trouble than they're worth.
In the case of two of the plaintiffs, lawyers had been unsuccessful in their attempts to communicate with their clients.
When finalized, the action will drop the number of lawsuits against the Jehovah's Witnesses in Napa Superior Court from 11 to seven. Three of the cases affected were originally filed in Sonoma County, but were later consolidated in Napa with cases from Napa, Tehama, Placer, Yolo and Monterey counties.
The Sonoma County plaintiffs accused the church of taking no action to stop a former Sonoma County Jehovah's Witness official named Donald Glew from molesting children, even though they claim the church knew of Glew's conduct.