Hi there and welcome.
In regards to the child abuse thing. I live in Australia, full JW family and I work with JWs.
These people are conditioned to take ANY criticism of their religion extremely seriously.
If it is the government doing the denouncing, and worldly media reporting it......... there is an abundance of room for Satan the Devil to get involved, in the mind of a JW.
It is the truth after all, and Gods Organisation, and the best way of life, and where else would you go?, and the end is so close.........