Jehovah’s Witness to be charged with sex abuse

Public Prosecution Service in the North to prosecute over historic instances of abuse

The public prosecution service in the North - the equivalent of the Director of Public Prosecutions - has decided to charge a Jehovah’s Witness over a series of historic instances of sexual abuse, The Sunday Business Post can reveal.

The individual will be charged at a committal hearing in July, one of the first criminal prosecutions of a Jehovah’s Witness on the island of Ireland, which is run as part of the British ...