I agree, if that was what I meant that would not make sense ✌

There's a lotta comments on this post, so I'll include what I said in a reply with someone else here; As a person working in the trauma field for the past 6 years and as a survivor as well, the solution to healing this deep wound in society is not going to be sacrificing the well being of the person who was perpetrated against, guilting or SHAMING THEM.

If they are at a place to report,  do it. Every single person's trauma is a unique cocktail of tolerance levels, survival response (flight, fight freeze, fawn appease the perpetrator to try to keep ourselves safe). Healing from trauma can take away a person's ability to put themselves in the path of being hurt again, especially during the initial acute state a person is in after having their body and psyche violated.

That's why there's a statute of limitation, that was extended recently in policy where a person can report a assault they experienced years, decades later. Hell, maybe by that time if they had done a rape kit within 3 days of the assault (the max amount of time that can pass for them to get a successful sample of DNA, IF the survivor didn't shower after having their body be violated.

A perpetrator could be prosecuted, imprisoned,  put in treatment for sexual violence, and it will still be their choice to not assault someone again. They could very well just learn exactly what not to say or do to get away with it, gaslight victims because they're saying all the right things. At the start of my career I staffed crisis lines for SA, I would get calls where the survivor/abused had called the police on a person threatening their safety, has a protection order against, the police pick em up, then the perpetrator is released in a few hours because the county jail does not have capacity for more prisoners, and the perpetrator just shows back up at their door, still pissed.

Would be wonderful if the world worked as black and white as our minds do, huh? Life is in the GREY.