While I'm not saying that one or two members of the Governing Body are pedophile/s. I'm saying to be a member of the Governing Body you have to be a very good straight faced liar, be it in deep denial, or compartmentalization, or just straight faced cover your corporate ass liar.
They are calling on all the faithful to believe only them, with the threats of disfellowshipping for repeating/voicing/believing anything negative about the GB or the corporation. No independent thinking allowed, trust only us, means they are hiding facts from the faithful and will keep doing so until the courts force them to come clean, and even then it will be done very begrudgingly.
I think I can make a case for them being huge liars and wolves in sheep's clothing who would if the need arises use the 2 witness rule to keep moving up the corporate ladder.
David Splane speaks to 600 congregations in Portugal about Pedophile cover ups starts at 1minute:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK9T4TlSYyk
https://www.revealnews.org/blog/how-jehovahs-witness-leaders-are-responding-to-child-abuse-scrutiny/
After it aired, however, David Splane, a member of the Witnesses’ Governing Body, spoke to 600 congregations from the religion’s Portuguese headquarters in Carnaxide, according to TVI, the station that aired the documentary. Splane’s talk provided a window into how Jehovah’s Witnesses leaders are handling the scrutiny.
“Now, sometimes, the brothers will call New York and say, ‘Why don’t you do something about this? This was a terrible program,’ ” said Splane, who was visiting from global headquarters in Brooklyn. “What do you want us to do? The journalist has a closed mind. The journalist isn’t interested in the truth. And so we usually just leave things as they are and let the story die.”
The documentary, “In the Shadow of Sin,” was based on the Witnesses’ own internal documents.
“Slanderous, negative remarks that people were making about Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Jehovah’s Witnesses weren’t there to defend themselves,” Splane said.
Ana Leal, the journalist who reported the story, said she sent numerous emails to the Witnesses and went to the organization’s Portuguese headquarters asking for their participation before the documentary aired. After Splane’s remarks in November, Leal went back and tried again.
In a follow-up report, Leal said the Witnesses let her through the gates of their compound, only to tell her, “We have nothing to add.”