This is the very issue that has my sister so upset with the Witnesses. There is a man that attends our local Kingdom Hall that molested his little sister. The elders know about it, his mother knew about it, nothing was ever done. He still attends meetings and no one else knows that he has done anything....he has never been convicted of any crime. He got married to my sister's friend and molested her little girl and when she tried to take it to the elders they threatened to disfellowship her when she wanted to go to the police. Another man was convicted and admited in a court of law that he molested his daughter and served time in prison and yet the elders did not inform the congregation that he was a registered sex offender. I really think there should be laws that force a church to inform the congregation when a registered sex offender is in their midst. Of course I also believe that anyone who steps foot on school property should have a background check ran on them, be they the parents of the kids attending (who are in and out of our schools constantly) or the men doing construction on a lot of our schools now thanks to the reconstruction act. But of course that requires money and time and no one wants to mess with it.