Do keep in mind that some never do....many take years to even make small strides. I think many people do not fully understand the lifelong affects this type of abuse has on children...even on teens. Most spend a lifetime at undoing the damage and even then the scars will remain. Confusion, fears, flashbacks, abandonment issues, and perhaps worst of all is how they view God in the aftermath.
Church becomes an ugly word and in many cases they never come back...the whole setting of the church building itself can trigger the former happenings emotionally and mentally, and the scars reopened for some with even the thought of returning or attending a church. Important to remember that many of these acts are often done in the church building itself...or ones associated with.
I recall a car accident I was in, really shook me up, a stop sign was blocked and both cars were totaled. I would thereafter even stop at corners where there were no stop signs...I was so hyper vigilant that it took a long time to get past that. So imagine someone being physically abused over months or years...where this act attacks not only their body, but in an unnatural way where this abuses their very soul.
That is what is so tragic about this form of abuse...nothing of the child is left unaffected....
It is a major blessing that most of the people in my life have been decent, kind, even remarkably good to me; were it not so, I don't know how I would have "gotten over" the bad ones.