Since WTS loves to use the OT for this "two witness rule", I submit that there is an exception to the "two witness" rule in the scriptures. It is ridiculous to exercise in a cases of child molestation, precisely since there are NEVER two witnesses.
Deut. 17:6-9: "At the mouth of two witnesses or of three witnesses the one dying should be put to death. He will not be put to death at the mouth of one witness. 7?The hand of the witnesses first of all should come upon him to put him to death, and the hand of all the people afterward; and you must clear out what is bad from your midst.
8?“In case a matter for judicial decision should be too extraordinary for you, one in which blood has been shed, in which a legal claim has been raised, or a violent deed has been committed, matters of dispute, inside your gates, you must also rise and go up to the place that Jehovah your God will choose, 9?and you must go to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge who will be acting in those days, and you must make inquiry, and they must hand down to you the word of the judicial decision.
Verses 8 and 9 give the exception to the rule.... case is too extraordinary... "a violent deed has been committed"... Two witnesses are not needed in these cases No doubt, those acting as judges would make a full investigation into the matter. NOTE: Jehovah was not necessarily involved in the decision making.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary states:
"Courts of judgement were to be set up in every city. Though their judgement had not the Divine authority of an oracle, it was the judgment of wise, prudent, experienced men, and had the advantage of a Divine promise."