A Jehovah’s Witnesses official delivered an urgent message to a group
of elders at a 2017 seminar in Britain: The time had come to rethink
the record-keeping policies of the organization, which has come under
fire for its handling of child sex abuse complaints.
Shawn Bartlett, the Witnesses’
record management overseer, explained that handwritten notes and drafts
of internal documents needed to be destroyed because of the potential
legal harm they posed to the organization, which has eight million
followers worldwide and more than a dozen congregations in the
Philadelphia area.
“The
question is: Why has this come up?” Bartlett said, according to a video
recording of the seminar that was leaked online earlier this year by an
anonymous insider.
“Well, we know that the scene of this world is changing, and we know
Satan’s coming after us, and he’s going to go for us legally. We can see
by the way things are shaping up. So the organization has said, ‘We’ve
run into difficulties in the past because of the records we have.'”
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