fleaman, I see your point. The point, however, you or some of you aren't aware of is its double polices. I am assuming you haven't had first-hand experience on this issue with the Watchtower.
The bottom line is, every Watchtower publications are for the publicity for general public if anything and mainly propaganda purpose for their followers. It's not all bad what they say in their publication. They come up with pretty decent comments from time to time in their publication such as this one(tho, it failed to adress its more deeper issues). Problem is that the Watchtower's another yet deceiving polices that apply to their followers are not necessarily according to what they said in their publication. It's all your fault once allegation is made. It's all depend on local elders and how they manuplate the cases in effort to covering their a** and report the cases to Circuit Overseer and the headquater. Trust me on this.
Your(victims and their family) voices mean nothing. The COs and the Watchtower only trust reports from their elders. Some of elders are abuser themselves. Top of that you are dealing with the Organization whose interest is protecting their own reputation and legal liablity. Have you ever called or wrote a letter on any legal issue to the Service Department and the Legal Department of the Watchtower Bilbe and Tract Society? They will give you complete different advises that contractdict one from the other. You are dammed for following either one. You will be punished by their boss, the Governing Body, for failing to follow one over the other. Their only policy for you is 'shut up and move on or else.'
As you said, it happens everywhere. The issue is the Watchtower has two different policies, one for publics and the other for their followers. The policies that desinged to protect their own reputation only.
The topic reads: "Ultimately it is the child who should stop the abuse according to the GB!" Yes! that's what they did to one of the victims that I know of. This kid suffered severely mostly because the way how elders and the Watchtower handled the case in protceting themsleves from liablity. They abused the victim far more than what perpetrator did.