like we see in many other cases...children become adults and then they understand what they experienced as children was abuse.
While I was growing up in this sport, we were unfortunate in our community to be experiencing “scandal” involving children in another institution I belonged to.
Everyone knew about it because people talk. Kids talk - especially to each other.
Sometimes they do. I have no guess of the percentage of how many remember the situations as "abuse". But some do, it may be many or most, or maybe only a fraction.
In any case, remembered or not, how does it impact the child now become an adult? Some will learn to be more vigilant good shepherds of the young entrusted to them, others will become more the wolf, and apply the lessons as to how better to appear like an old sheep in the midst of the young or even better (albeit rarer) to wear a shepherd's frock and carry a shepherd's staff and so have access to the entire flock and spy out the most select of prey.
I suspect from a lifetime of observation, that too many bury the memory away in some deep recess, and at the level of conscious action behave like those once forced into submission by a predator, and become even somewhat more prone to allow their litter to be accessed by the predators.