AUSTRALIA
9 News
Annette Blackwell
August 14, 2015
A member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ governing body will give evidence at a royal commission hearing into child sex abuse on Friday.
Geoffrey Jackson, who started his ministry in Tasmania in the 1970s, is on the powerful seven-member governing body of the controversial church. The body helps shape the bible-based doctrine by which Jehovah’s Witnesses around the world live.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has been inquiring into how the church and its legal entity in Australia – the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society – handle abuse allegations.
Mr Jackson is in Queensland for “private, compassionate” reasons but chief commissioner Peter McClellan requested he take the witness stand.
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