Bleep, what makes you to be "safe to say" that 1,000 out of 23,720 are from the U.S.? It could be more than half. But we are not talking about the numbers here. We are talking:
1. Does the WTS have a database on pedophiles?
2. if they do, how were their cases handled?
3. How were the victims treated?
4. Does the WTS's policy really protect the children?
Bleep, I don't know whether you are an elder or not. But according to the elders in my former congregation, all the pedophilia cases are not reported to the police. They said that if it's not required by the State ( of the U.S.) law, the elders DO NOT report to the authority other than the Brookly HQ. Even the Society's letter admitts that there are elders who were found guilty of pedophilia. The Society gives a dumb ( sorry for my use of word ) excuse for that.
My question is if they never hide pedos ( and always let the victims call the police ), why in the world they have pedo elders in the first place? How come they are not in jail? I'm not saying that they should be DF'd when they repent. We do have laws in our society. Granted they are Caesar's, but we are obligated to abide.
The elder I talked to denied everything in the beginning. But later he said that because he hadn't taken care of this kind of cases, he didn't know. He also told me that if a pedo brother moved into a State where there is the Megan's Law ( requiring all the sex offenders to register with the local sheriff ), the elders still DO NOT tell anyone ( including the publishers in the congregation ). And that pedo bro is free to go door to door and to have a great time with the children in the congregation.
Bleep, are you a parent? If you are, according to the WTS's policy you wouldn't and shouldn't know if there is a pedophile in your congregation until he strikes again AT YOUR CHILD.
As you may know these pedophiles tend to have more than one victims.
We are not talking numbers here. We are talking the WTS's policy and the children.