Jehovah's Witnesses destroyed notes about child sex abuse, inquiry told

Church elder tells royal commission that 1,006 allegations of abuse since 1950 were dealt with internally rather than reported them to police.  Jehovah’s Witnesses destroyed notes about child sexual abuse to stop them falling into the wrong hands and to “protect their wives”, a church elder has told a national hearing in Sydney.

The opening day of a royal commission hearing into abuse within the church has heard how 1,006 allegations of child abuse since 1950 were dealt with internally and never reported to police.

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