In a number of states these elders would be guilty of abuse as well.
"There were members in the church that said I should have been disfellowshipped as well; they said that I seduced him. We switched the congregation that we attended, but I was still looked at as a whore, someone that was not a victim but rather a perpetrator. I remember there was an elder that felt so strongly on the matter that he actually gave a sermon on 'It is not rape if you do not scream.'”"
"Willful harming or endangering (which includes mental abuse) as defined in Ca 11165.3 PC
The infliction of mental/emotional suffering."