This is from Conti's appeal veredict:
Monica Applewhite, a clinical social worker and an expert on child sexual abuse,
testified for defendants that Watchtower’s policy against “disclosing private
information . . . very closely mirror[ed]” the codes of ethics of the National Association
of Social Workers and the American Counseling Association. Based on her review of the
evidence, Applewhite opined that the Congregation never put Kendrick “into a position
that required or allowed him to be alone with children, to be in supervision of children,
[or] to spend time with children away from their families.” Because the church’s
activities did not separate children from their parents, Appelwhite opined that its best
means of protecting children was to educate parents about child sexual abuse, and it
exceeded the standard of care for such education in the 1990’s. According to Applewhite,
the elders met the standard of care in Kendrick’s case when they left it up to Evelyn and
her daughter whether to tell the police about the abuse he admitted, and “they kept a
special watch on him and paid attention to whether or not he had any inappropriate
contact with children within the meetings at Kingdom Hall.”