[sourcery]

Here's the root of the problem: `...in [Jehovah's Witness'] internal proceedings against accused molesters, the church applies a biblically based “two-witness” rule. “They require another witness to the actual molestation,” Anderson says, “which is an impossibility.'

[Does so]

OK, Henderson is a pederast—just as the Catholic priesthood were who were sued.

Isn't it misleading to state that McLean's victims were "children"? There should be a distinction.

[DannyHaszard]

Jehovah’s Witnesses Pedophile coverup facts

What’s the situation with child abuse?
Not good. They take Deuteronomy 19:15 literally, which demands two witnesses to a crime (not easy in cases of abuse). And they cite 1 Corinthians 6:1-11 – “Does anyone of you that has a case against the other dare to go to court before unrighteous men, and not before the holy ones?” – to justify trying to deal with criminals with courts of elders rather than courts of law.

Studies in the US suggest they (Jehovah’s Witnesses) have proportionally four times more sexual assaults on children than the Catholic Church.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/features/article3133271.ece (from here major UK paper)

It’s the WAY that the Watchtower’s protocol for (non) handling of Criminal Pedophilia that is the root of this evil.
Recent Watchtower ‘damage control’ in house memos on ‘correcting’ past cover ups and years of past stone walling/foot dragging does not undo decades of child abuse damage.

The Watchtower needs to stop harassing whistle-blowers and denying it all like the Catholic church did at first.
I was born a JW in 1957 and have seen countless congregation sins dismissed to fester.

Sexual Abuse and Child Abuse Among Jehovah’s Witnesses http://www.exjws.net/sexabuse/index.htm