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Studies show us that the more sexually repressed the religion, the more child sexual abuse occurs among its members. Phillip Garrido, for example, who kidnapped Jaycee Dugard and held her as a sex slave for 18 years, was a Jehovah Witness minister. Police were only alerted when he tried to take the babies that he fathered with Jaycee onto a University campus to preach and distribute Watchtower magazines. Do you want these people on your private property, knocking on your door, talking to your children?
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Even especially prominent JW Representatives, like Robert Edinger, of Bedford (Mitchell Kingdom Hall), for example, repeatedly intoxicated his son with alcohol at the age of 14 or younger, following years of stripping him and beating him. That son survived, however, earned a PHD in Religion at the University of Southern California, and is now fighting back, especially because my father is taking advantage of the fact that my mom has Alzheimer's and cannot express her wishes clearly. After a lifetime of being an attentive son to my mother, now, when she has Alzheimer's and can no longer defend her wishes, my father capitalizes on this and keeps me away from her, because I am not a JW. I have come to realize now, at the age of 54, that child abuse among Jehovah's Witnesses lasts a lifetime. And this web site represents the expression of a lot of hostility over a lot of stupidity of those in power in this organization with their proud egos, not even taking into consideration the consequences of these failed policies that tear families apart, if not sooner, then later. Many family members of JWs suffer, and we need solidarity in order to face these challenges.
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Adult Survivors of Jehovah Witness Child Abuse
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Jehovah Witnesses invade private property with no permission of any kind, by surprise, sometimes when you are not at home. Often, they solicit home bible studies with children. Sometimes, they come to visit when you are away from your home and unable to protect your family. They have all of Bloomington, Bedford, and Mitchell, Indiana mapped out into territories for door-to-door canvassing, hoping to be invited to a return visit.
The law does nothing to stop this invasion of your private property, since it is considered to be within their 1st amendment rights to solicit our conversions. The only recourse that you have is to notify them that you do not want to be called on and then they will put you on their Do Not Call list. Inform them that Jehovah Witnesses are not allowed on your property. Only by having notified them will you be able to put legal force behind your no trespassing sign. We urge you to do this as soon as possible. Protect your children! Tell the Jehovah Witness representatives listed on the right, or the number in your local phone book, that under no circumstances do you want them to call at your home!
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We, those of us who had this fearsome and violent ideology thrust upon us in our infancy, we are the principal victims of this fossilized, anachronistic, destructive, and dangerous philosophy of idolatry of self that the JWs try to force with violence upon silent lambs.
The Jehovah's Witnesses organization is built on fear, not truth, fear of the almighty warrior god Jehovah, fear of the end of the world, fear of one's neighbors or classmates, or most of all, displeasing the elders, being spied upon, the threat of being outcast and unable to even socialize with one's own mother. Much worse, however, is that they go door-to-door trying to scare us, bothering us when we are trying to enjoy a family meal or getting ready for work. They want you to be afraid as well, so that you will donate to their cause.
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If you do not like this page or think that it is inappropriate, please contact the following people. Bloomington: Martin Boling, 2506 S. Milton Drive, 47403 (812) 339-8638 (812) 332-6184 Bedford: Faith Spicer, 3609 River Bluff (812) 275-2987 Tell Faith How You Feel: Mitchell: Steven C. Steuer 245 Riverview Addition Bedford, IN 47421-8286 (812) 849-3739 Please leave message!
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If you have any information about child sexual abuse among Jehovah Witnesses, it is your legal duty to report it to your local law enforcement agency. Please report it to us as well at: info@jwchildabuse.com
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We are dedicated to helping protect Jehovah Witness children from sexual abuse and to fight against the cover up of sexual abuse. We are investigating a particularly egregious case that has been reported to us involving three local congregations of Jehovah Witnesses in Bloomington, Bedford, and Mitchell, Indiana. Please help to inform the ministers (elders) of these congregations that they have a legal duty to report child sexual abuse to local law enforcement agencies!
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We wish to thank all of the Christian churches and other non-profit organizations in Indiana and elsewhere that are helping with our campaign.
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Jehovah's Witnesses support classified for
yard and garage sales. Jehovah's
Witnesses like to visit garage and yard
sales to buy and preach at the same time.
Classified advertising is a form of advertising which is particularly common in newspapers, online and other
periodicals which may be sold or distributed free of charge. Advertisements in a newspaper are typically short, as
they are charged for by the line, and one newspaper column wide.
Publications printing news or other information often have sections of classified advertisements; there are also
publications which contain only advertisements. The advertisements are grouped into categories or classes such as
"for sale - telephones", "wanted - kitchen appliances", and "services - plumbing", hence the term "classified".
Classified advertisements are much cheaper than larger display advertisements used by businesses, and are mostly
placed by private individuals with single items they wish to sell or buy. Classified advertisements are usually charged
for according to length; the publications in which they appear may be sold or given away free of charge.
Advertisements usually comprise text with no graphics, and may be as short as a statement of the article on sale or
wanted and a telephone number, or may have more information such as name and address, detailed description of
the item or items ("red woman's sweater, V neck, size 10, slightly used, good condition"). There are usually no
pictures or other graphics, although sometimes a logo may be used.
Classified advertising is called such because it is generally grouped within the publication under headings classifying
the product or service being offered (headings such as Accounting, Automobiles, Clothing, For Sale, For Rent, etc.)
and is grouped entirely in a distinct section of the periodical, which makes it distinct from display advertising, which
often contains graphics or other art work and which is more typically distributed throughout a publication adjacent to
editorial content.
A hybrid of the two forms — classified display advertising — may often be found, in which categorized advertisements
with larger amounts of graphical detail can be found among the text listings of a classified advertising section in a
publication. Business opportunities often use classifieds to sell their services, usually employing 1-800 numbers.
Classified and classified display ads are used by many companies to recruit applicants for jobs.
Printed classified ads are typically just a few column lines in length, and they are often filled with abbreviations to save
space and money.
[edit] Developments
In recent years the term "classified advertising" or "classified ads" has expanded from merely the sense of print
advertisements in periodicals to include similar types of advertising on computer services, radio, and even television,
particularly cable television but occasionally broadcast television as well, with the latter occurring typically very early
in the morning hours[citation needed].
Like most forms of printed media, the classified ad has found its way to the Internet.
Internet classified ads do not typically use per-line pricing models, so tend to be longer. They are also searchable,
unlike printed material, tend to be local, and may foster a greater sense of urgency as a result of their daily structure
and wider scope for audiences. Because of their self-policing nature and low cost structures, some companies offer
free classifieds internationally. Other companies focus mainly on their local hometown region, while others blanket
urban areas by using postal codes. Craigslist.org was one of the first online classified sites, and has grown to become
the largest classified source, bringing in over 14 million unique visitors a month according to comScore Media Metrix
[citation needed]. A growing number of sites and companies have begun to provide specialized classified
marketplaces online, catering to niche market products and services, such include boats, pianos, pets, and adult
services, amongst others. In many cases, these specialized services provide better and more targeted search
capabilities than general search engines or general classified services can provide.
A number of online services called aggregators crawl and aggregate classifieds from sources such as blogs and RSS
feeds, as opposed to relying on manually submitted listings.
Additionally, other companies provide online advertising services and tools to assist members in designing online ads
using professional ad templates and then automatically distributing the finished ads to the various online ad
directories as part of their service. In this sense these companies act as both an application service provider and a
content delivery platform. Social classifieds is niche that is growing in online classified ads.
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