You know what, had they got justice the first time this would not be happening.
I agree. I understand the victim’s trauma. I am one.
Unless addressed by the specific love of God, sin never goes away. It only lurks, ready to spring in the future at Satan’s bidding.
I am not all that sanguine about the “Gothard” approach myself (it even has its own warning mnemonic, “got hard”) and if in the big picture this can get people returning to the grace of God, the agonies will not have been in vain.