The Guardian, Ramon Antonio Vargas: Jehovah’s Witnesses administrator confessed child abuse without substantial consequence, lawsuit says
“Barry Davis says Joseph Fitzgerald Hall molested him in the 90s, yet Hall kept working for the church nearly unimpeded.”
Hall has since joined a congregation in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mr. Davis is coming forward because he wants to be sure that the Charlotte congregation knows about the abuse. “Davis also said he shed his anonymity to support others who for years have been speaking out about child abuse within the Jehovah’s Witnesses.”
“(Mr. Davis) contacted New Orleans-based attorney Kristi Schubert, who has represented a number of religious abuse survivors…. Schubert (has) filed a lawsuit in New Orleans’s civil district courthouse on Davis’s behalf.”
New legislation enables adults subjected to childhood sexual assault in Louisiana to file lawsuits against their perpetrators and the churches, schools, youth athletic leagues, medical facilities, and other organizations that enabled the wrongdoing. Call Lamothe Law Firm now for a confidential consultation.
