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To: jerri
Well jerri,

The police did a thorough investigation of the matter. In fact the police were even interviewed by Dateline and the Fifth Estate TV shows on their investigation (shown at Slinetlambs.org).

The mother did not commit offences. She was living in fear. Fear of her former husband and fear of a high control organization that prescribes shunning and closing the family out of God's organization, if she disobeyed the Organization's rules. If the elders concluded that Berry was not guilty (which they did) then she could not go after him without serious punishment from the organization. The police figured that out pretty quickly and it's not BS as you supposedly think.

The Police believed it was Mr. Berry who controlled and abused these young ladies. This all came out in Court and in the end it was Mr. Paul Berry who was found guilty well beyond a reasonable doubt. And even though he was found guilty, the Jehovah's Witnesses organization still hold him as a Jehovah's Witness in good standing.

One final point. The mother is devasted with what happened and she does blame herself a lot for what has happened.

28 posted on 11/25/2004 5:27:58 AM PST by hawkaw
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To: hawkaw

I am not defending Berry, he is receiving what he deserves. I am defending the Witnesses. Contrary to what you believe they are not a high control organization that puts fear into its members. I guess since the MSM says something about Witnesses that you want to believe it must be true. Why wasn't the mother devastated when she was letting it happen?

I would not keep my children around a child molester period. I don't believe she was afraid of the organization at all, she used them as scape goat.


35 posted on 11/25/2004 5:55:34 PM PST by jerri
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