After quoting a number of statements made in Watchtower literature about the need of reporting child abuse to the authorities (amongst other crimes), the author of this article regarding child abuse says the following:
No Watchtower publication has ever been found contradicting the above statements.
Off the top of my head I can think of some, and more than likely some of those statements (you can see them at the bottom of that web page if you want) are actually the opposite of what has been said in the past. There is most certainly a Watchtower article that said that even if a person confessed to murder, as long as he did it before he was baptized, the elders had no responsibility to contact the authorities.
For one, this person quotes "a 1997 letter to the elders", but I'd have to see a scanned copy of it to know it was actually legitimate (and indeed it may be). For two, this person is quoting only one side of the story; the Society likes to sound very upstanding and clean, but also says some pretty terrible things as well.
How about all those articles where rape is equated to fornication? Even in 'My Book of Bible Stories', a Watchtower book written for children, what Shechem did to Dinah was considered wrong because they weren't married, not because it was rape. That hasn't been changed even though a revision of the book was done just a few years ago. That says all I need to know.
The author of this page clearly hasn't done a lot of research. He clearly wants to believe the Society's hands are clean in this because of the DF'ing arrangement and these published statements. But there are so many loopholes present in their system, and plenty of things that aren't actually written down but merely spoken instructions that could totally debunk all that.
In short, his kung fu is weak.
--sd-7
...OUTLAW
