http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...-commission-told/story-fni0cx12-1227458483269
Mr Horley: Well we dont want our wives knowing our stuff, what sort of things we are dealing with. We dont want other people in the congregation coming across that information.
He denied that the elders wanted to keep such details secret.
The commission has been told that Jehovahs Witness is a tightly controlled, rule-bound organisation that seeks to keep its members in relative isolation from the rest of society and women are expected to defer to the authority of their husbands and children are taught to obey their parents.
Earlier the royal commission heard that the Jehovahs Witness church repeatedly promoted paedophiles to positions of authority
and never reported any case of child abuse to the police.
Church elders could now face criminal charges for concealment of serious indictable offences and failure to disclose sexual offences against minors, counsel assisting the commission Angus Stewart SC said.
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Pedophiles/incestuous parents often seem to be in a protected group .....