When I first met Mark, in May of last year, he appeared at the front door of his modest home in the same outfit he nearly always wears: khaki cargo shorts, a short-sleeved shirt, white sneakers, and sweat socks pulled up over his calves. (Recently, he has begun using his own name.) Soon after, he became known to ex–Jehovah’s Witnesses as John Redwood, an activist and a blogger who reports on the various controversies, including cases of child abuse, surrounding Watchtower. Mark, 51, is the owner of an exercise-equipment repair business and a longtime Jehovah’s Witness who quietly left the religion in late 2013. That effort has been remarkably successful-until recently.Ī white Priority Mail box filled with manila envelopes sits on the floor of Mark O’Donnell’s wood-paneled home office, on the outskirts of Baltimore, Maryland. Yet all this time, Watchtower has refused to comply with multiple court orders to release the information contained in its database and has paid millions of dollars over the years to keep it secret, even from the survivors whose stories are contained within. Less notice has been paid to the abuse among the Jehovah’s Witnesses, a Christian sect with more than 8.5 million members. In recent decades, much of the world’s attention to allegations of abuse has focused on the Catholic Church and other religious groups. Thus did the Jehovah’s Witnesses build what might be the world’s largest database of undocumented child molesters: at least two decades’ worth of names and addresses-likely numbering in the tens of thousands-and detailed acts of alleged abuse, most of which have never been shared with law enforcement, all scanned and searchable in a Microsoft SharePoint file. Keep a copy of the report in your congregation’s confidential file, the instructions continued, and do not share it with anyone.
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The letter laid out instructions on how to deal with a known predator: Write a detailed report answering 12 questions-Was this a onetime occurrence, or did the accused have a history of child molestation? How is the accused viewed within the community? Does anyone else know about the abuse?-and mail it to Watchtower’s headquarters in a special blue envelope. The organization was concerned about the legal risk posed by possible child molesters within its ranks. congregations, and to many more congregations worldwide. In March 1997, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, the nonprofit organization that oversees the Jehovah’s Witnesses, sent a letter to each of its 10,883 U.S. Written submissions can be sent to the clerk’s office, also by the Sept. To register, call 51, TTY 51, send an email to or go online to guelph.ca/delegate. 12 council planning meeting begins at 6:30 p.m., and will be livestreamed at guelph.ca/live.Īnyone looking to provide a delegation at this meeting is required to register with the city clerk’s office no later than 10 a.m. No final decisions will be made on this application at that time, with council only voting to officially receive it. 24 municipal election – for its first public meeting. 12 planning meeting – the last such gathering ahead of the Oct. This rezoning application is set to appear in front of city council at its Sept. Should the property’s rezoning be approved, that clinic would relocate to Eramosa Road.Īccording to property records, the building was purchased via a numbered company owned by Grabowski in December 2020 for $725,000. Michael Grabowski and Katelyn McGhie, both of whom are currently operating out of the Guelph Chiropractic Health Centre on Woolwich Street. The proposal is being put forward by Drs. is looking to have the property rezoned so that it can be converted into a chiropractic clinic. A former place of worship for Guelph’s Jehovah’s Witnesses could soon become a chiropractic clinic.Īccording to documents posted on the City of Guelph’s website, the new owner of the former Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses at 639 Eramosa Rd.
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