The child sex abuse cases on Jehovah’s Witnesses can trace its long history back to several decades ago, but the church’s ways of handling the case can be deficient and traumatic experience for the victims as it didn’t exert punishment on those abusers to prohibit the action and even cover up the truth from authorities. Moreover, they are allowed to return to their congregations if they are deemed sufficiently repentant with the result that the abuse cases are on the increase. For decades, the society is deceived by its cancelation, but lately one of the cases has been uncovered with the evidence that Jehovah's Witness is concealing the scandal for long decades. Reporters as follows:
（The abuser Ian Pheasey）
Ian Pheasey, 54, went unpunished for more than 25 years after his activities were "swept under the rug" by the church he attended. A court heard that Pheasey first attacked a seven-year-old girl while he was working as a volunteer librarian at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, in Warwick, in the 1990s. The girl’s parents chose to conceal the sexual nature of the incident and told her not to say anything about it. They continued to understate the seriousness of the assault, and the matter was swept under the carpet by the church. Pheasey was eventually caught after another of his victims went to the police after learning Pheasey was working at a hospice. Pheasey was arrested in October 2014 and charged with offences between 1989 and 1994. "
Last Wednesday, Pheasey was jailed for five years after he pleaded guilty to assaulting one girl causing her actual bodily harm and indecently assaulting two others. Sentencing at Warwick Crown Court, Judge Richard Griffith-Jones said: "You committed sexual assault from the idea of strangling children. "That is a hideous and discomfiting fantasy, and one which has given me some concern when I come to sentence you. "One of the most serious features is that strangulation creates a risk of causing very serious injury and death. "So it's not simply a matter of it being frightening and disgusting that small children have been made to suffer in this way, it's the risk they would suffer something even more catastrophic."
Prosecutor, Nicholas Taplow told the court that Pheasey first struck when a young girl went to get a book from the Kingdom Hall library. His second victim was a 14-year-old girl who he grabbed around the neck and threw to the floor where he straddled her and squeezed her neck. The court heard she fell into unconsciousness, came round but then passed out again before coming round for a second time and crying out: "Jehovah help me!" He calmly told her that he would kill her if she told anyone, adding that if she grew up and had daughters he would rape them as well.
She ran home screaming and crying and told her mother what happened - only to be told to clean herself up before she was taken to hospital for the bruising to her neck.
Pheasey's third victim was just six when he was carrying out some work at her parents' home. The court heard as she sat in his van, he got in and began to tickle her before moving his hand up under her skirt - but stopped when she kicked out and screamed. Following his arrest Pheasey said he could not remember the incident in the library, but admitted he had put his hands round the girl's neck on more than one occasion.
Nick Devine, defending, said: "The inevitable lengthy sentence of imprisonment will have devastating consequences for him, going to prison at his age for an offence of this nature. "It may be that, while the congregation of the Jehovah's Witnesses can be criticised for how they dealt with it, it has at least acted on him in part to prevent a return to acting out the fantasies he had. Pheasey, of Warwick, was also ordered to register as a sex offender for life and given a sexual harm prevention order restricting his contact with children. A spokesman for the Jehovah's Witnesses said the church deplored Pheasey's behaviour and denied it was involved in a cover up of his crimes.
The spokesman said: "Jehovah’s Witnesses abhor child abuse, and view it as a heinous crime and sin. The safety of our children is of the utmost importance.
"Any suggestion that Jehovah’s Witnesses cover up child abuse is absolutely false. We are committed to doing all we can to prevent child abuse and to provide spiritual comfort to any who have suffered from this terrible sin and crime."
(Royal Commission)
Despite ,a series of evidence According to the report made by Reuters published on The World Post, The Jehovah's Witnesses Church in Australia failed to report to police more than 1,000 cases of child sexual abuse going back more than 60 years. The number of this historic crime hidden by the church will shock the world. At the opening hearing into the Jehovah's Witnesses on Monday, Angus Stewart, senior council assisting the commission, described the church as an insular sect with rules designed to stem the reporting of sexual abuse. "Evidence will be put before the Royal Commission that of the 1,006 alleged perpetrators of child sexual abuse identified by the Jehovah's Witness Church since 1950, not one was reported by the church to secular authorities," he said. "This suggests that it is the practice of the Jehovah's Witness church to retain information regarding child sexual abuse offenses but not to report allegations of child sexual abuse to the police or other relevant authorities."
Stewart outlined multiple institutional failures to protect children or censure（blame）alleged abusers, including doctrine releasing church elders from their responsibility to report abuse where there was no mandatory legal obligation to do so.
