I don't have any easy answers to the first. Isolating him in some fashion so that he does not repeat would be part of it.

I have seen stories of women, for instance, in jail for abusing their own children. They were so wrapped up in their own feelings, their own pain, their own confusion, that they did not really think about how their actions would affect small children. They saw themselves as the victims, they wanted their children to take care of them, and when that did not happen, they turned in fury upon the children. Only gradually did these women come to realize that their children could not be their parents, could not take care of them; only when they began to understand their own feelings with the help of understanding therapists, could they begin to see how they could change their ways, change their own lives. They did not come to see that as a result of being punished even more.

I think something similar has to happen with this present case. Takes more effort than simply locking someone away...

I think that how these boys, who are now men, feel about what happened to them is affected by how the rest of society reacts to it. If society (we) treat it as an unthinkable outrage, then they are more likely to feel damaged permanently; if society treats it as something damaging that happened but that can be dealt with, then I think it will be less traumatic to them.

I feel I am in the great minority here, if not totally alone in what I think. I am trying to avoid automatic, emotional reactions. In the past I think children, some children, were subjected more routinely to abuse than is now the case, and it was not thought that unusual, and that in some respects the children were less damaged by it than is the case when it is made to seem the end of the world.

I remember a TV show ("The Breaking Point") many years ago in which the hero psychiatrist was dealing with a young girl who had been raped, and he did not treat her, or the whole case, as a tragedy which never could be overcome. He was totally "on the side" of the girl, as he was with all his patients, but his attitude was not the conventional one at all. He did not make an overwhelming case of it... That program was not the favorite of mental health practitioners of its time.

I'm trying to say something and maybe not using the best way of saying it; it gives some the impression that I am trying to "justify" the abusers. I am not. I am not trying to "justify" anything. I am trying to comprehend.