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Those who highlight child sex abuse in the Jehovah’s Witness church may be non-believers telling lies, a church senior says.
In one of many interesting exchanges at a royal commission into child sex abuse on Friday, a member of the group’s governing body was asked if he disagreed with those who say efforts to highlight and deal with abuse within the church are engaged in “apostate lies”.
Geoffrey Jackson, a member of the church’s powerful seven-member governing body in New York, said the question is a broad one because sometimes people making those accusations make many others as well.
“But let me assure you, the person making the accusation is not the main thing,” Mr Jackson said.
“The main thing is, is there some basis to the accusation.”
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