AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Danuta Kozaki
A child abuse victim and former Jehovah’s Witness has detailed how she was abused by her father, who was an elder with the church in north Queensland.
During its hearings in Sydney, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has heard the Jehovah’s Witness church did not report any complaints to police involving the assault of children.
The 43-year-old witness codenamed BCG told the commission she spoke to the church hierarchy of the abuse against her and her three sisters, and was treated with disdain.
“It felt so wrong that my father’s abuse affected me so much and yet didn’t even qualify as something wrong in the eyes of Jehovah’s witnesses who professed to be acting with the authority of Jehovah and the Holy Spirit which is considered to be above Australian law,” she said.
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