I reflected on how complicated forgiveness is and how little space there is for it in our justice system,
I can see this author is a wonderful advocate for her patients, but as someone who was sexually abused by a beloved relative for several years, beginning when I was four, I don’t have any idea how she could possibly think offenders would ever be forgiven by their victims. When a person in a position of trust destroys a child’s innocence and changes everything about the way the child perceives the world—no matter how much therapy the child gets—forgiveness is a remarkably unaware thing to expect.
