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Em seu Relatório Final, a Comissão Real recomendou que a organização das Testemunhas de Jeová abandonasse a aplicação da regra das duas testemunhas em casos que envolvam denúncias de abuso sexual infantil (16.27), revisasse suas políticas de modo que mulheres participem da investigação e da decisão sobre tais denúncias (16.28), e deixasse de exigir que os membros evitem o contato com quem se dissocia por motivos relacionados a ter sido vítima de abuso sexual infantil (16.29).

Claim ID claim-safeguarding-final-report-recommendationsConcerns 15 de dezembro de 2017Conclusão independente
Conclusão independente · 15 de dezembro de 2017 Respaldado

Em seu Relatório Final, a Comissão Real recomendou que a organização das Testemunhas de Jeová abandonasse a aplicação da regra das duas testemunhas em casos que envolvam denúncias de abuso sexual infantil (16.27), revisasse suas políticas de modo que mulheres participem da investigação e da decisão sobre tais denúncias (16.28), e deixasse de exigir que os membros evitem o contato com quem se dissocia por motivos relacionados a ter sido vítima de abuso sexual infantil (16.29). Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Final Report, Volume 16 Religious institutions, Book 3, 15 de dezembro de 2017Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Case Study 54 (Institutional review of the Jehovah's Witnesses), transcript Day 259, 10 de março de 2017ABC News (Australia), 10 de março de 2017

A posição da organização ou explicação posterior: Na audiência de março de 2017 a organização disse que a regra das duas testemunhas 'can't be changed or avoided' e que estava 'prohibited by Scripture from altering the application of the two-witness rule' ( pp. 26491, 26525). Não foi localizada nenhuma declaração pública posterior aceitando 16.27-16.29.

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Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Final Report, Volume 16 Religious institutions, Book 3, “Chapter 15 Jehovah's Witnesses; Recommendations 16.27-16.29”

15 de dezembro de 2017 · Recommendations 16.27, 16.28, 16.29 · Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse · Commonwealth of Australia

“abandon its application of the two witness rule in cases involving complaints of child sexual abuse”

Recommendation 16.27 as summarised in the search index of the official site and in secondary sources; 16.28 asks the organisation to revise its policies so that women are involved in processes for investigating and determining allegations of child sexual abuse; 16.29 asks it to no longer require members to shun those who disassociate where the reason relates to their being a victim of child sexual abuse. The Jehovah's Witnesses chapter is chapter 15 of Book 3 (confirmed from the Volume 16 table of contents in Book 2, which was opened).

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Nota de procedência e verificação

Nota de confiança. Neither the official nor the royalcommission.gov.au copy of Book 3 could be downloaded from this environment (both hosts time out / TLS fails; a Python download was left running). The recommendation wording is consistent across the official site's search snippet, the ABC's 2017 reporting, the Case Study 54 transcript (which describes the recommendations as they stood in the Case Study 29 report) and multiple secondary summaries, and the claims it supports are labelled accordingly.

Corroborado por. src-arc-2016-1000-cs29-report, src-arc-2017-0310-cs54-day259-transcript, src-abc-2017-0310-jw-defend-treatment

Notes. Volume 16 Book 2 (Catholic Church) was downloaded from tjhcouncil.org.au and its contents page confirms Book 3 contains '15 Jehovah's Witnesses'. Final Report presented 15 December 2017.

Consultado em. 19 de setembro de 2026 · Identificador da fonte. src-arc-2017-1215-final-report-vol16-bk3

Registro público oficial Respaldado

Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Case Study 54 (Institutional review of the Jehovah's Witnesses), transcript Day 259, “Evidence of Terrence O'Brien and Rodney Spinks, 10 March 2017”

10 de março de 2017 · pp.26486-26574 · pp. 26491-26493, 26500, 26505, 26513, 26524-26525, 26530, 26543 · Transcript produced by DTI · Commonwealth of Australia

“THE CHAIR: Yes. But if there are not two witnesses, you don't accept it, do you? MR O'BRIEN: Because scripturally we're not able to.”

P. 26543:13-16. At p. 26525:17-21 Mr O'Brien confirmed the organisation's response to the recommendation to modify the two-witness rule: 'the two-witness rule is required by the scriptures and can't be changed or avoided ... That's correct. That's our stand.' Counsel Assisting's opening (pp. 26492-26493) said that of 17 allegations received since Case Study 29 the organisation had reported 15 to the authorities, the two exceptions being adult survivors who elected not to report. At p. 26513 Mr O'Brien described the Branch Office practice of instructing elders that where there is a risk to a child 'the matter is to be reported to the police'.

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Nota de procedência e verificação

Nota de confiança. Official transcript not opened (host unreachable); a complete copy was opened and the central quotation matches the ABC's contemporaneous report. Upgrade to 'verified' once the official PDF is opened.

Procedência da digitalização. Copy of the DTI transcript (89 pp.) hosted by saysorry.org, a survivor-advocacy (discovery-tier) site; used because the official host was unreachable. Key quotation independently reported by ABC News on the day.

Corroborado por. src-abc-2017-0310-jw-defend-treatment

Notes. Case Study 54 was the follow-up 'institutional review' hearing held on Friday 10 March 2017. The Governing Body did not give evidence at this hearing.

Consultado em. 19 de setembro de 2026 · Identificador da fonte. src-arc-2017-0310-cs54-day259-transcript

Jornalismo de reputação estabelecida Verificado

ABC News (Australia), “Uniting Church apologises to victims of sexual abuse, Jehovah's Witnesses defend treatment”

10 de março de 2017 · Nicole Chettle and Michelle Brown · Australian Broadcasting Corporation

“Because scripturally we're not able to.”

Terrence O'Brien's answer, as reported, when Justice McClellan pressed him on the two-witness rule at the 10 March 2017 hearing. The report also records that of 17 allegations since 2015, 15 were reported to police, and that the US-based hierarchy declined to appear.

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Nota de procedência e verificação

Nota de confiança. Article opened; quotation confirmed.

Corroborado por. src-arc-2017-0310-cs54-day259-transcript

Consultado em. 19 de setembro de 2026 · Identificador da fonte. src-abc-2017-0310-jw-defend-treatment

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