En octubre de 2016 la Comisión Real australiana concluyó que la práctica de evitar el trato es 'un componente inseparable de la respuesta institucional al abuso sexual infantil', que esa práctica 'tiene el potencial muy real de colocar a la sobreviviente en la posición insostenible' de tener que elegir entre compartir comunidad con el agresor o perder esa comunidad, y que 'hace extremadamente difícil que una persona se marche'; la incluyó entre las prácticas problemáticas de la organización. El miembro del Cuerpo Gobernante Geoffrey Jackson había declarado que marcharse puede ser 'devastador en lo personal'.

Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Australia), Report of Case Study No. 29: The response of the Jehovah’s Witnesses and Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Australia Ltd to allegations of child sexual abuse, “Section 7.7 Shunning; summary of problematic policies (p. 13)”

octubre de 2016 · pp.13, 70-72 · section 7.7; endnotes 618-636 · Commonwealth of Australia (ISBN 978-1-925289-89-3, CC BY 3.0 AU)

“The Jehovah’s Witness organisation’s practice of shunning members who disassociate from the organisation has the very real potential of putting a survivor in the untenable position of having to choose between constant re-traumatisation at having to share a community with their abuser and losing that entire community altogether.”

Also: 'Even family members are instructed not to associate with a disfellowshipped or disassociated relative unless the association is unavoidable'; 'the practice of shunning is an inextricable component of the institutional response to child sexual abuse'; the organisation's submission that shunning was outside the terms of reference was rejected; Governing Body member Geoffrey Jackson's evidence (14 Aug 2015) that leaving can be 'personally devastating because [a person] can lose their whole social network and their families'; p. 13 lists 'the organisation has a policy and practice of shunning those who wish to leave the organisation' among problematic policies.

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