Watchtower Legal Cases Examined
Jehovah's Witness Child Abuse Legal Cases
The organization in charge of Jehovah's Witnesses, Watchtower, has a long history of problematic child sexual abuse in the organization. While child sexual abuse issues exist in almost every societal institution and religion, the way the Jehovah's Witness organization handles these cases can lead to child sexual abusers not being reported to the authorities. The news stories on this page are but a small sampling of the problems rife in the organization.
Case Studies
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Watchtower vs. Stratton Response
Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of New York, Inc. v. Village of Stratton, 536 U.S. 150 (2002), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a town ordinance's provisions making it a misdemeanor to engage in door-to-door advocacy without first registering with town officials and receiving a permit violates the First Amendment as it applies to religious proselytizing, anonymous political speech, and the distribution of handbills.
Who is behind LegalLearningStudio.com?
On Friday, June 17, 2022 Legal Learning Studio (headquartered in Warwick, NY according to LinkedIn), did a YouTube livestream on the Watchtower v. Stratton supreme court decision. After the stream, they immediately made it private.
The video was hosted by Watchtower spokesperson Robert Hendriks and featured Watchtower lawyers Philip Brumley, Paul D. Polidoro, and Keturah A. Dunne. A featured guest was Joshua McDaniel of the Harvard Law School's Religious Freedom Clinic.
Is it a coincidence that Legal Learning Studio's LinkedIn page lists its headquarters in Warwick, NY, the same city that the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society is headquartered in? Is it a coincidence that a program given by Legal Learning Studio was hosted by Watchtower's official spokesman, Robert Hendriks?