As of 08/16, the Jehovah Witness (JW) average worldwide membership was 8.13 million actively involved in preaching with a peak of 8.34 million. They have an active presence in most countries though they do not form a large part of the population of any country. Speaking only for the U.S. there has been evidence of pedophilia for years, resulting in many court cases.

The Watchtower Society has an established "Watchtower Pedophile Policy" that provides detail regarding how JW are instructed to deal with child abusers and pedophiles. What this policy actually reveals is that it has actually facilitated the operation of pedophiles within congregations. The policy is lengthy, ambiguous, confusing, has been edited frequently over the years, and can be found online. The Watchtower Society of Pennsylvania is headquartered in Warwick, NY. It is the main legal entity used worldwide by JW to direct, administer, and disseminate doctrines for the group and is often referred to by members as "The Society."

Pedophilia court cases have been difficult to litigate. Most of them are settled out of court with "gag" clauses so the public is unable to obtain full details. Because of the difficulty with litigation, a legal hanbook was created called "Jehovah's Witness and Sex Abuse - A Brief Handbook For Attorneys and Other Legal Professionals." This handbook was created to "help better understand the challenges in dealing with Jehovah Witnesses in litigating, addressing, and treating matters of child sexual abuse."

The JW has something that is called "The Two Witness Rule," meaning that a second witness is required to the incident before they will remove an accused pedophile from their congregation. Here are JW most up-to-date instructions:

"There must be 2 or 3 eyewitnesses, not just people repeating hearsay; no action can be taken if there is only 1 witness. If the accuser or accused is unwilling to meet with the elders or if the accused continues to deny the accusation of a single witness and the wrongdoing is not established, the elders will leave matters in Jehovah's hands."

There you have it, and here is a link to the Lawyer Handbook, 188 pages, 2016 edition. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7wYFQg_BoQPX3h1V210czdwZDg/view?usp=drivesdk

A decent article to review, "Child Abuse and The Watchtower" http://aawa.co/blog/child-abuse-and-the-watchtower/

This topic is immense, it is global, and there are volumes of information about it. A document, or should I say a treatise, by Barbara Anderson called "Secrets of Pedophilia in American Religion - Jehovah's Witnesses in Crisis," contains over 5,000 pages of discussion and court transcripts from the out of court settlement by The Watchtower in 2007. watchtowerdocuments.com

Another decent site for many articles and links to news reports of JW pedophiles is silentlambs.org