At a news conference on Monday in Manhattan announcing the upcoming lawsuits against the church, the alleged abuse survivors’ lawyers, Irwin Zalkin, right, and local counsel Michael Barasch, left, describe the allegations of sexual abuse and the alleged negligence by the church. Photo: Jason Grant/ALM
Two ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses detailed years of alleged sexual abuse by church elders Monday at a news conference in Manhattan, as their lawyers stood next to them and outlined lawsuits that they plan to file against governing church leadership on Wednesday, when New York’s Child Victims Act is scheduled to take effect.
One of the allegedly abused, Heather Steele, now 48, told a large throng of media gathered at the news conference organized by her New York lawyer, Irwin Zalkin, that “we waited for years to get that [law] passed, and I’m very, very glad [we did] get that passed.”
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