Former cult member opens up about past, helps others

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[OneNewsNow] 28 Nov 2008--A former Jehovah Witness has written a book called The Spanking Room: A Child's Eye View of the Jehovah Witnesses.

When Bill Coburn was four years old, his mother became part of the Watchtower Society. He remembers attending a meeting discussing plans for a new Kingdom Hall. "The elder then announced that what we may not have noticed was that there was a spanking room installed next to the women's bathroom," he explains. "This was to solve the problem of women waiting in line at the bathroom with crying children, waiting for them to be beaten during the meeting."

Coburn was asked why he calls it a beating instead of a spanking. "I would describe it as a beating because it was described how to inflict more pain upon the child," he adds.