Thank you sir82. Their policy is still bad, just not quite as bad as when I was serving.
carla: Yes, that's how it was, and I was able to make quite a few JW relatives squirm with that information. I would lay out the hypothetical scenario of a child saying he was raped in the back room of a Kingdom Hall at 3 pm on a Friday afternoon and all the DNA evidence being gone by Monday morning.
An elder relative of mine chimed in once saying, "There's nothing stopping the parents from calling 911. It's their primary responsibility."
I replied, "OK, let's say the parents have headed out for a cabin in the woods for the weekend with no cell phone coverage and they drop off little 13 year old Johnny at the Kingdom Hall for a cleanup afternoon on their way out of town. You're the elder on scene and Johnny comes out of the back room saying he was raped and his parents can't be reached. Are you going to call 911?"
He looked at his toes for a few seconds and then said, "Yes, I would. But that's a pretty far-fetched scenario."
I said, "Maybe, but the policy should be changed to accommodate a situation like that, don't you think?"