SIr 82 I did say current policy not years ago but as I said this would not have even applied to the case everyone is talking about...
From the case notes.
The offender was a trusted family friend. He was not on the sex register at all! He only had a misdemeaner from apparently accidental contact with his stepdaughter which the police didn't consider serious enough to take further thamselves. The elders could have known no more than the police at the time which was that he had only a misdemeaner and that would have been public knowledge to his family and friends since it involved his own stepdaughter. Also Megan's law didn't come into effect until 1996 after the events of this case and the elders would have been tied by the privacy laws at the time the same as the government was until Magan's law came into effect.
Problems with the case..
The girl says her parents would let her goto the offenders house after the sunday meaning every week alone which is apparently where the offenses happened.
The girls parents completely deny this!
It is on the above which is probably why this will never become a criminal case. Because of conflicted evidence given by the girl and her parents and other people that deny she ever went to the offenders house alone.
Now if he had been a serial pedophile with a string of convictions behind him which the elders knew and hid. I would understand the 28 million dollar price tag but not for a case that doesn't have enough weight to get a conviction because of conflicting testimonies, seems rather suspect.
Like I said earlier if this wasn't so clearly about money and tying an offence to an organisation that can afford to pay huge sums involved rather than getting a pedophile put into prison I would understand. But no one seems that bothered that he he free and clear to offend again least all those that are shouting loudest about this case.