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The leadership of the Jehovah’s Witnesses has boldly defied court orders to turn over the names and whereabouts of alleged child sexual abusers across the United States, according to a new investigation in Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting.
Since 2014, courts have slapped the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ parent corporation – the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York – with multimillion-dollar judgments and sanctions for violating orders to hand over secret documents.
READ AND LISTEN TO THE FULL REPORT FROM REVEAL: "How Jehovah’s Witnesses leaders hide child abuse secrets at all costs"
This story was produced by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at revealnews.org and subscribe to the Reveal podcast, produced with PRX, at revealnews.org/podcast.
Take Two's Alex Cohen spoke with Reveal reporter Trey Bundy about his investigation.