LMAO. Too right. I know of one case, which is probably one of many that hasn't been reported and tallied in that 25,000 figure you quote there. My family are JWs, and so was I from birth to mid-teens. My sister (who at the time had a five year old daughter) got married 'within the truth' to a man who - unknown to us at the time - had sexually abused his younger sister. A year into the marriage, it came out that he'd also sexually abused my niece. What became of it?
Instead of going to the police about it first, my mother advised my sister to go speak to the congregation elders about it. Since elders seem to really love paedophiles or something, they told her not to take it to court, and they advised the husband to move to another congregation. So he could touch up more kids...
My sister went off the rails after this and a few months later was in with the heroin crowd blah blah. Social services got involved, deemed her unfit to have kids (which she was) and so her children were put into foster care. That was nearly 10 years ago now, they're still there to this day.
I'm not blaming the JWs for my sister going off the rails, that's her own damn problem, but what pisses me off is just how eager they are to protect paedophiles. Perhaps because most of them would have to turn themselves in otherwise.
Edited by Zawinul, : No reason given.