Watchtower Victims Memorial

The Watchtower Victims Memorial is dedicated to the memory of Jehovah's Witnesses and their minor children who died as a result of the Brooklyn-based Watchtower Bible and Tract Society's decrees banning blood transfusions, organ transplants, skin grafts, and vaccinations -- as well as other individuals whose deaths due to suicide, abandonment, etc., are attributable to the Watchtower Society in the view of surviving loved ones.

More about Jeffrey Borilla

Jehovah's Witness, age 25, died May 1986, of over-sedation, in the county hospital of Kern, California. SOURCE (private e-mail): his brother Howard Barile:

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Subject: MEMORIAL FOR JEFFREY PAUL BORILLA
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JEFFREY WAS DISFELLOWSHIPPED IN 1981. UP TO THAT POINT, JEFF HAD BEEN A
HAPPY, GO-LUCKY PERSON. AFTER THAT DREADFUL ANNOUNCEMENT: "JEFFREY
BORILLA HAS BEEN DISFELLOWSHIPPED FOR CONDUCT UNBECOMING OF A CHRISTIAN",
HE WENT DOWNHILL MENTALLY UNTIL HE BECAME SCHIZOPHRENIC. POOR JEFF WOULD
GO TO ANOTHER KINGDOM HALL WHILE DISFELLOWSHIPPED AND SIT IN THE FRONT ROW.
WHEN THE ELDERS FOUND OUT HE WAS DISFELLOWSHIPPED, THEY TOLD HIM HE HAD TO
SIT IN THE BACK! JEFF BECAME PROGRESSIVELY WORSE, IN AND OUT OF
HOSPITALS, UNTIL THE COUNTY OF KERN, CALIFORNIA, TOOK OVER HIS
CONSERVATORSHIP. HE WENT SO BERSERK THAT KERN MEDICAL OVERSEDATED HIM AND
THAT KILLED HIM IN MAY 1986. JEFF WAS ONLY 25. HE WAS FINE UNTIL THEY
DISFELLOWSHIPPED HIM. BEING DISFELLOWSHIPPED TRIGGERED HIS MENTAL ILLNESS.

I WATCHED HIM CHANGE FROM A BROTHER I KNEW AND LOVED TO SOMEBODY I HAD
NEVER MET. I MISS JEFF. HE MISSED OUT ON SO MUCH. HE WAS SO GIFTED AND
FUNNY. MY COUSIN HAD A DREAM JUST BEFORE JEFF DIED THAT JEFF WAS IN PEACE
AND WAS CALLING ON THE NAME OF JESUS. PRAISE THE LORD.