Former Jehovah's Witnesses protest outside convention in Reading [View all]

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The activists accuse the denomination, which has been holding meetings in the city, of silencing abuse victims.


READING, PA — One moment Martin Haugh's daughter, 4, was at his side, the next moment, she no longer was there.

"I looked down and my daughter was gone," he said of that day in 2005.

It took just a few minutes for Haugh to find her behind a large potted plant in the lobby of the Jehovah's Witnesses Kingdom Hall in Red Lion, York County.

He said those few minutes were enough for a pedophile to abuse the girl.

Haugh, 41, and his wife, Jennifer, 43, were among a group of former Jehovah's Witnesses who gathered Sunday outside the Santander Arena.

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