Here in NY, it depends on whether or not the prosecutor feels like filling out the paperwork that day, and whether or not they are mad at you.
We knew of a girl whose grandmother, and her mother's boyfriend were 'doing things' they aught not to have done.
It was reported, and the local CPS types interviewed her IN FRONT OF THE TWO ABUSERS.
Any other time, there was a 'closed session' interview.
In another unrelated instance, a guy was wrongly accused, and it didn't matter that there wasn't a shred of fact to the report.
They destroyed the guy anyway.
*shrugs*
Sounds like some of our prosecutors have gone out your way.
I have said before that some men just need killing. He is one of them. Remember me telling you of this man sexually abusing a several weeks old infant? Well, he is still in jail because no one will bail him out and is in protective isolation.
You may be right. I know of one serial "peeping Tom" who was caught several times but was never prosecuted because his wife was an Assistant DA. The man is a tenured university professor, was chairman of his department and was caught not once but twice in his own neighborhood. On another occasion he was in another state on university business and was caught again. His wife filed for divorce but didn't want their child to find out about his father so she got the judge to agree to not press the charges if the man attended some sex offeneder rehab program.... last I heard, he attended one session and never went back.