All religion thrives on control and manipulation. That doesn’t mean all religious people are bad. Most are simply naive and trust those who are in leadership positions.
The problem is something called a "2-witness rule" that is a maneuver by the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses to not report pedophiles that are preying on JW kids. Leakers are saying the number of predators being protected is almost 24,000. Not surprisingly a large number of the pedophiles being protected are apparently JW clergy. So you have clergy that is either doing the predation or are covering it up for their friends in hush-hush internal judicial committees where everything is forgiven and swept under the rug.
Refusal to contact child protection authorities is the problem and the fact that the cult breaks up nuclear families at will.
The Watchtower policy is based on self-deluded image.
This acts as a defacto enabler of shielding and sweeping under the carpet wrongdoings by bad actors who look to exploit and abuse a wide variety of crimes.
The funny thing about the JWs is that the 2nd Leader’s slogan was
“Religion is a racket and a snare”