Sunday, June 6 If you are doing what is bad, be in fear.​—Rom. 13:4.

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Sunday, June 6

If you are doing what is bad, be in fear.—Rom. 13:4.

 

Child abuse is a grave sin. The child abuser hurts the child in devastating ways. He betrays the child’s trust, robbing the child of his or her security. Children must be protected from such a wicked deed, and those who have been victimized by it need comfort and help. (1 Thess. 5:14) When someone who is a part of the congregation becomes guilty of child abuse, he brings reproach on the congregation. (Matt. 5:16; 1 Pet. 2:12) We do not tolerate in our midst individuals who unrepentantly commit wicked deeds and who bring reproach on the good name of the congregation. If someone in the congregation becomes guilty of violating a criminal law, such as by committing child abuse, he is sinning against the secular authorities. (Compare Acts 25:8.) While the elders are not authorized to enforce the law of the land, they do not shield any perpetrator of child abuse from the legal consequences of his sin. w19.05 9 ¶4-7

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  What Satan did to Eve was tantamount to child abuse and all her children have felt the effects of it ever since. Satan will not go unpunished nor anyone who preys on children. How good that Jehovah's organization brings this painful wicked act to the light.  In these last days, don't think that it is just adults who abuse children. Young children have been found to abuse other children and the fallout only to be found out years later, so parents must be ever on their guard. 

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Young children have been found to abuse other children

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/7-old-accused-rape-arresting-120427916.html   June 3, 2021

 

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At the forested edge of the Canadian border this spring, state police arrested a person from the hamlet of Brasher Falls, New York, population about 1,000. He was charged with rape.

The pain of such crimes often tears small towns apart without rippling beyond their borders. But following the March 23 arrest, news of the arrest ricocheted far beyond the hamlet.

 

What kind of sick world are we living in that a mere child could be charged with committing such an heinous crime? Have parents failed in their duty in bringing up their children properly? Society today is so diseased that our young children are being corrupted beyond belief and robbed of their innocence. 

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Many who study juvenile justice say young offenders are often the victims of abuse themselves. As a small child, the rage Charles A. Rice felt over the physical and sexual abuse he said he suffered at home came out at school in violent bursts.

Then one afternoon, while building a wire sculpture in fifth grade art class at his elementary school, he scuffled with a classmate.

 

 

Edited June 6, 2021 by happiness IS