TIDBITS
B S
(Investigator 88, 2003
January)
TIDBITS
is an American publication
with news items about fringe religions particularly Jehovah's
Witnesses.
The
November/December 2002 edition of TIDBITS
included the following items which are here summarized:
- Psychology
Today
(December 2002):
Has a review of the book Awakening of a Jehovah's Witness, Escape
from
the Watchtower Society by Diane Wilson.
- Stars
&
Stripes
(no date): Had
a half page about Barbara and Joe Anderson and their findings
concerning
paedophilia cover up in the Watchtower organization.
- South
Florida
Sun-Sentinel (November
2, 2002): Report about Raymond Knowles, a JW elder, who defrauded
fellow
sect members of $millions! The elder persuaded members to invest in
promissory
notes at about 9% annual return and used later investors to pay the
earlier
ones. Meanwhile he enjoyed luxury cars and trips abroad.
- No reference:
A
Riverside
(California) JW
mother, Donna Knight, drowned her baby in the toilet. She did this to
conceal
her pregnancy from her church where she faced excommunication for sex
out
of wedlock.
- No reference:
One of the
American anthrax
hoaxers was Fred Forcellina, 71, who had been a JW since childhood and
was a speaker at JW conventions. He was sentenced to two months jail
followed
by two years probation.
- Anderson
Independent
(October 4, 2002):
Tonya Parker left her 11-month old girl by the bath-tub to talk to some
JW visitors who knocked on her door. The baby drowned and the mother is
charged with involuntary manslaughter.
- No reference
(October 18,
2002): Panama City,
Florida. A zookeeper, Mr Koll, was interviewed by Awake!
magazine
reporters. He entered the cage of an African lion for a photo but
stumbled
and fell and got mauled.
- No reference:
The trial of
Christian Longo,
a JW who killed his wife and three children, is set for February 3. His
reason for killing his family was, "I sent them to a better place."
- The Daily
Telegraph
(October 18, 2002):
A JW mother, stressed over a custody battle, intended to kill her two
children,
aged 7 months and 5 years, in two stages, poisoned chocolate followed
by
fire or gas. After stage one she changed her mind and called emergency
help. The judge gave her a two-year suspended sentence.
- No reference:
Seven
Philippine marines were
killed trying to rescue JWs taken hostage. Two JW hostages were
beheaded.
- No reference:
125 JW
sexual abuse victims
from 22 states protested outside the Watchtower headquarters on
September
27 with newspaper reporters and TV-crews present.
- Times
Herald
Record
(September 10,
2002): A fire destroyed a large part of a new JW assembly hall under
construction.
- No reference
(November 7,
2002): Norma Kissoon,
a JW, died of internal bleeding in the Leicester Royal Infirmary (UK)
after
rejecting a blood transfusion. An inquest by four doctors and the
surgical
team said she could have been saved.
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