A woman is suing a Jehovah's Witnesses church
in Weber County after, she says, one of its instructors repeatedly raped
her when she was a minor and the organization's leadership forced her
to listen to an audio recording of one of the assaults.
The woman filed the lawsuit Wednesday in 2nd
District Court, accusing the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses church
in Roy — as well as naming the alleged perpetrator, several church
leaders and the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (the religion's
headquarters located in New York) — of knowingly allowing the "unfit"
instructor to rise to a position of authority without warning members of
his "dangerous propensities" and past sexual transgressions.