However, these policies were designed to prevent cooperation with secular investigators. For instance, when an elder called the Legal Department he would be asked what state he lived in. If that state required clergy to report child abuse to law enforcement, a recommendation was made that the elder make an anonymous call from a telephone booth. No doubt this was done so that law enforcement authorities would be unable to contact them for more information.
They don't want to cooperate - they just want to avoid being labeled as non-cooperative. They likely have masses of evidence and statements that the officials could use to put justice to the perp, but this will never be seen by the authorities. SO, they kind of turn them in, but reluctantly, only in the places where the law stipulates it as required, and then only anonymously from a phone booth at times. Everything short of total non cooperation is evident here.
