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JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES LEADERS TO BE SUED FOR SEXUAL ABUSE UNDER NEW CHILD VICTIMS ACT
August 12, 2019
Catherina Gioino, Leonard Greene
New York Daily News
A man and woman who accused Jehovah’s Witnesses elders of child sexual abuse will launch lawsuits against the organization’s governing body under a landmark state law that goes into effect this week, the former church members said Monday.
John Michael Ewing and Heather Steele, in separate lawsuits that will be filed Wednesday in Brooklyn Supreme Court, said they endured years of rape and molestation at the hands of the group’s elders.
Steele, a New York native now living in Florida, said she was just