Rattigan 350,
You ask why the Watchtower is responsible for child abuse?
We all agree that it's the parents main responsibility to protect their children. However:
01.) How are the parents suppose to protect their children if they are not warned by the elders when there's a child molester in their midst?
02.) How is the Congregation and the community safe when the victims are told they will bring reproach on the Organization if they report the abuser?
03.) The members are constantly told that they are in a spiritual paradise and that ALL elders and Servants are appointed by Holy Spirit and thus we should trust and obey them? This makes the children vulnerable to child molesters that hold privileges.
04.) The Governing Body instructs elders not to cooperate with search warrants and subpoenas for information the elders have about child molesters. They use the "Ecclesiastical Privilege" when convenient to avoid turning in information elders have about a child molester.
05.) The Governing Body instructs elders to call the legal department FIRST instead of calling the police. This is gross negligence!
06.) Elders only report if it's mandatory according to the May 2019 study article. Why didn't they report Gonzalo Campos in California? Why didn't they report Stephanie Fessler abuser in Pennsylvania? How about the latest case in Montana where they lost a 35 million dollar lawsuit? All those states have mandatory reporting yet they didn't report it!!
07.) The Governing Body appoints elders and Servants that have abused children in the past IF THEY HID THEIR SIN FROM THE PUBLIC!
The Watchtower Organization receives benefits from the government's such as tax exemption in exchange to serve the community and make the communitu a better place. By discouraging victims to report, by ordering the elders to call the legal department first instead of the authorities, by keeping child abusers secret from the community and the Congregation and by refusing to cooperate with subpoenas and search warrants......The Governing Body have become complicit and sharers in the crime of Child abuse.
The community is not safe when the Watchtower sends pedophiles to people's doors where children are exposed. The families and children are not informed when a pedophile is in the Congregation.