Daily News | Pa. Attorney General charges five more Jehovah’s Witnesses with sexual abuse
The cases often follow familiar paths: Predators take advantage of the insular nature of the Witnesses’ religion, and the organization’s strict hierarchy, which places a great deal of authority in the hands of elders, who are the equivalent of priests., that the Witnesses maintain in their headquarters, about 45 miles outside New York City.
notes and drafts of internal records, explaining: “We’ve run into difficulties in the past because of the records we have.”State investigators noted that Aviles faced legal scrutiny once before. In 2010, Lancaster City Police investigated his alleged abuse of the twin girls. A therapist later reported that there had been sexual abuse to Lancaster authorities, who interviewed Aviles.Aviles also acknowledged that he monitored the sisters’ social media accounts. But the Lancaster investigation was ultimately closed, state investigators found, due to a “lack of information” — a reference to the Witnesses’ long-standing reluctance to turn over internal records.
*Mark Brown, 65, who was charged aggravated indecent assault and endangering the welfare of children for allegedly sexually assaulting two sisters on more than 20 occasions between 2004 and 2006, when each was about 12 or 13, in Allegheny County. Investigators found that the girls reported their abuse to Witness leaders.
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