I am so sorry for what you went through. You were a child also, the elders had not right to question you like they did as they have no training in how to talk to children.
Yet when there is a convicted pedophile in a hall an adult person who has a prison record of raping children and is on the internet as a convicted child molester nothing is done but to push it under the rug. It makes no sense.
I do not know why children are treated to horribly in the "truth". I was abused by my parents and went to all the meetings the whole time I was being abused, no one helped me. The elders knew I was being abused, I know they did yet no one ever stepped up to help me.
I confronted one elder just last about my past last March and why he never offered to help me as a child. He said I was lying that my parents never did what I said they did to me. I am in my 40's now. If he is telling me to my face now as an adult that I am lying what chance did I have as a child to be believed.
I am so sorry I know your pain. I too have tried to take my life over the pain. It never goes away. It hurts so bad. And it did not have to happen, I just do not get it.
LITS