I'm absolutely DISGUSTED as what the GB members are letting go on inside the Organization with regards to pedophiles, but I guess it shouldn't come as any great surprise after all the other crap they've pulled over the years.
One can only assume that their sheer arrogance and/or stupidity in their "we can't do anything without two witnesses" policy, is a sign that they're either possessed or they're all getting collective Alzheimers disease.......it's ridiculous to pretend that child abuse doesn't go on in the congregations - it goes on in every single religious organization on earth, simply because you have imperfect people in every single religious organization on earth.
If child molesters within the congregation were pursued with the same gusto and enthusiasm as those that buy lottery tickets or question doctrines, they'd be doing something. One can only assume that none of the Governing Body members have any children (thank god!) or they'd never come up with such a stupid policy. What planet are these guys on???
Here's a little something that happened in my congregation a few years ago: An elders wife was accused of child abuse. Not sexual abuse, but simply treating a 3-year old child that she was babysitting like a piece of crap. This was witnessed by SIX other sisters at a private luncheon. Finally, one of them (a "spiritually weak person") told the mother of the child what had happened at the luncheon and oh my god, the fight was on..........because it was an elder's wife that was being accussed, that was bad enough in the other elder's eyes, but because it was a SPIRITUALLY WEAK person who dared speak out, that was a million times worse and they went after her like a lion after his prey. They tried downplaying it, they told her she should have "come to the elders to express any concern she might have" instead of telling the child's mother about it, they threatened her that what she was doing was "heresay" and "gossip" and the other sisters who witnessed the scene at the luncheon were basically all a bunch of pathetic little wimps because they ALL recanted their stories when pressured to by the elders (some of these women were also elders' wives)............nothing ever happened to this sister for child abuse but the "spiritually weak" sister who brought it out in the open was (as still is) treated like an apostate......
Surely this is another fine indication that Jehovah is NOT blessing this Organization!!!
I truely hope that Bethel gets sued left right and center over all these abuse cases - they've been sooooooo used to unquestioning loyalty and obedience no matter how many lives they ruin in the process, that they need to be FORCED to make some changes. People aren't nearly as brainwashed as we used to be. We have the Internet and they can't control what we read anymore, which of course is the scariest thing for people obsessed with mind-control like these guys.