There is a related angle to this sordidly lame Watchtower defense:
If the Watchtower is truly God's channel, it should have been at the forefront of measures to protect children, not trailing way behind worldly organizations.
I clearly remember that, when the Watchtower made a "ruling" in the 1970s that JWs who continued to smoke tobacco would be disfellowshipped, brothers made comments along the lines of "This shows how the organization is way ahead of the world in matters of health and morality". So, if that really is the case, how do they explain their archaic, reactionary policy on child abuse? They can't, although their sanitised explanation, quoting the lone opinion of some woman from an unknown discipline is very telling.