>>If he had done it sooner he may have gotten off the hook, but twelve years later?<<
“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
Yup. Should have been more careful about how he executed his vengeance. If he'd planned better, it wouldn't be an issue.
Twelve years later cannot be written off as a crime of passion or losing control, something that could have been argued and won if he would have taken the perv down within six months or so of molesting his daughter