A woman who says she was abused by a Jehovah’s Witness church elder in Maine as a child is filing a lawsuit.
According to the Bangor Daily News, the woman filing the suit alleges that she was abused as a young teen in the 1990s by a church elder, and her family faced threats of a lawsuit if they reported it to law enforcement, which they did not.
The Village Soup reported that the suit names the Jehovah’s Witness congregation in Rockport and the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.
The woman also claims in the suit that she was disfellowshipped from the church after her mother confronted the elders. The suit says she was not allowed to rejoin because she would not recant her claims.
