They can say any brainwashed thing they want, data doesn't lie.
The ARC gives some good data
1006 cases not a single one reported, even if the JW policies weren't ask twisted as they were and this still went on, it is a pretty good indication there is a systemic shortfall. The evidence, just in Australia, says yes, they ARE permissive towards pedophiles. How they get there is just little details and semantics (which there are a lot of powerful ones that have come out). But in the end, the victims go through more scrutiny than the abusers.