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Sarah Brooks was 15 when two fellow Jehovah’s Witnesses — adults she thought she could trust — started sexually assaulting her.
The abuse would last for more than a year before Brooks broke down and did what children are taught to do if someone harms them: she told her parents.They alerted Witness elders, but were warned that if Brooks contacted police, she would bring “reproach” on Jehovah’s name, according to a lawsuit filed in June against the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York.
Despite being shunned by family members and friends, Brooks moved forward with reporting her abuse to authorities. That triggered an emergency meeting of elders in 2013, when they learned that the York County District Attorney’s Office would seek records about Brooks’ abuse in their investigation. “We bought a shredder,” one York elder told others, according to the lawsuit, “and headquarters has told us to shred.”Since 2019, Pennsylvania’s Attorney General’s Office has probed the organization’s handling of abuse cases. On Friday, the officeA spokesperson for the Witnesses did not directly address the allegations in Brooks’ lawsuit, but wrote in a statement that the organization is sickened by news about abuse.
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