There was a pedophilia situation that came up in a local
congregation about three years ago.
Seems a pedo chicken came home to roost for a fine upstanding elder.
The situation was from twenty or more years previous. The victim,
now grown up and married, was encouraged by current articles of
several years ago about child molestation, to report what had
happened when a minor. So the victim talked to local elders (another
state far away), who reported it to HQ. HQ appointed a couple of
elders to interview Upstanding Elder. He thought the problem had
been resolved years ago in the ORIGINAL congregation where the event
occurred. But there it was as a resurrected skeleton now in his
current congregation, and according to WTS guidelines and how he
responded to their formulaic questions asked by the local brothers
assigned to interview him, WTS very quickly responded with ORDERS re
IMMEDIATE ACTION TO BE TAKEN regarding Upstanding Elder: immediate
removal as elder, no parts in any meeting except householder in
Service Meeting, no public prayers before the congregation, and no
taking younger ones along in Field Service.
Seems WTS was doing a sloppy job of giving lip service to info
they had published about molesters: I never heard anything mentioned
about any authorities ever having been informed from the very
beginning years ago, and the congregation was told ABSOLUTELY NADA
about WHY the WTS had taken such action, nor even that it was HQ that
took the action!!!
Bottom line: many pubs thought that the brothers assigned to
interview the molester were the ones that removed him because they
didn't like him, and those who had no opinion were ABSOLUTELY IN THE
DARK about why he got busted down to the basement. Not even anything
about how Upstanding Brother might be a danger to their kids.
My wife was so upset about what happened to the guy she started
having an attitude toward WTS because of how "unkindly"
and "unfairly" they treated him for "unknown" reasons. I started to
break down in my Seal of Confession mentality to share with her some
of what the problem had been with him so it would be more
understandable to her but she could not even believe it and wanted to
hear No More About It.
Now that I'm a big DISASS I realize that my loyalty was
displaced in keeping the garbage confidential; that I MYSELF should
have informed the congregation about the molestation charge (even if
I got axed for that) and that it was WTS HQ that gave Upstanding the
ax, not the elders assigned by them to investigate the matter, who
were taking the heat that HQ should have been taking. Typically WTS
was shoving responsibility that THEY should have shouldered to anyone
else they could so WTS could continue in its tradition of loading
crap on everyone else (they never admit blame for ANYTHING, which
will be part of their undoing) so they could continue the illusion of
being Jehovah's White and Unsullied ORGANIZATION.
It will be interesting to see if this particular situation ---
and maybe many others of similar ilk --- comes under fire (for not
reporting original incident to police as well as the point of not
protecting the congregation's children) as pedophilia coverup
lawsuits start hounding the WTS mercilessly, as they indeed deserve.