LEGACY- I can certainly understand your situation in staying with the WT organization until you aren't happy anymore with it as you state. That is your right and your freedom of choice to make entirely. In regards to child abuse within the organization you are correct as well : the fault IS in the elders not going to the police first . But are you AWARE of WHY the elders do NOT go to the police first ? Because they are instructed by the WT Society legal department to NOT go to police first- they are instructed to CALL Bethel legal office first and then given instructions on whether to go to police or stay quiet about the child abuse. THAT is what is written in their instructions from the WT Society elders manual and in secret elders letters from the WT Society. But YOU would not know about that as a congregation publisher- because this information is NOT shared with rank & file JW's . They are in the dark about how the WT Society is trying to protect itself from child abuse lawsuits.
Your statement, " many don't go to the police because some, not all stories are a little flaky ... " - I beg to differ. Many JW parents have been TOLD NOT to go to the police from elders or they will be DFed or expelled for possible " slander " , so many JW parents are in fear of being DFed if they go to police so they are " buffaloed " into ONLY going to elders to report the child abuse( perhaps even of their own children ) or made to feel GUILTY of defaming Jehovah's name if they go to the police. They are told that going to the police will bring " reproach on the organization " - so then you have these JW children suffering abuse and receiving no help ! Then they get post traumatic stress syndrome and then JW parents wonder WHY their children don't want to be Jehovah's Witnesses ? Am I making ANY sense here ? I have seen firsthnd dozens of these cases happen exactly as I'm telling you.
Your statement about meeting householders in field service who may be molesters, " The problem or consequences of knocking on doors, you are liable to get anyone, child abusers, drunks, whatever ... most of these types of folks are shut-ins ( how do you know that ? ) & when there is a knock at the door they open it because most of the world isn't even checking for them ". Well, perhaps. But I ask you to put the shoe on the other foot. Turn the coin over from another viewpoint. Elders do NOT prevent any known JW child molester from knocking on people's doors so the general public is NEVER informed that a known pedophile ( to the elders anyway ) is calling at THEIR door in public. What if a householders minor child answers a door that a JW pedophile calls on ? What if the parents are not home and a JW child molester invites himself in or takes advantage of a non-Witness child in their home ? It HAS happened and WILL happen again if the WT Society continues it's policies of covering over child molesters within their congregations and lets them off with a slap on the wrist or " reproof " if they are allegedly " repentant ". That pedophile will STILL go out in service and have access to children. And all because the WT Society minimizes the danger to children and maximizes the ill effect lawsuits will have on the financial WT Society $$$$ pocketbook for lawsuits.
Not trying to belabor this point but you say you like talking to me and I WILL inform you of information I feel you need to hear in order to make informed decisions as to whether you stay in this organization or not. If you are happy- fine. But personally I cannot abide staying in an organization that harbors felony child abusers. One reason I exited the Witnesses 10 years ago nd have STAYED out.
I'm glad that you have your own mind, it seems that you are an open minded thinking individual. Please ponder all these things I've stated to you. With all due respect it is your choice to make, but you seem too nice an individual to be trapped and duped by a high control organization like Jehovah's Witnesses.
TRUTHSETSONEFREE- Thanks Truth. I just want people to think is all with open minds and freedom of mind
