To those that have accused me of insensitivity about abuse:
My father and his brother and sisters were raised by a man who became rich in the 1950s. He owned a construction company during a housing boom in a metropolitan area. For whatever reason he became a cruel man and started beating up on his wife and teenage sons, for how long I don't know.
My Dad became one of Jehovah's Witnesses in the 1960s and married my Mom shortly after. He was genuinely a good man but his experiences as a teenager evidently had some long term effects as he beat up on my mother for a few years while he was an elder (they were divorced before I was 5 and he had to step down). When he married his second wife there were some problems, but he got his temper under some control. One night however, he lost his temper and cut loose on my sister. She immediately left the home, called her/my (real) mother and she picked her up.
She told the elders about the indecent at a congregation in that area. The elders there, contacted the elders at my father's Kingdom Hall. The elders at our congregation immediately showed up at our front door and questioned my Dad. After they left, my father explained to me why what is physical abuse, “isn't” physical abuse. In other words, I was taught to lie. So, when the elders returned and questioned me about the alleged abuse, that's what I did. Upon becoming older, I understood I was manipulated into lying so I confronted my Dad. He refused to meet with the elders, so I have had nothing to do with him ever since (active JW). He floats around freely in the family as 75% of my family are JWs.